One of the most amazing concepts to understand is God’s love.
God’s love is much more than our human comprehension and experience of love.
The Bible is full of over 800 references to love. It tells us that:
God is love (1 John 4:8)
Love is God’s character, His essence. God demonstrates love, He expresses love, He acts out of love, He loves, He is love. Nothing can change the character of God, He always has been love and always will be love.
God’s love is unfailing (Isaiah 54:10)
God’s love doesn’t fail. It doesn’t stop. It isn’t temporary. It isn’t influenced by circumstances or outcomes. It isn’t conditional. It is reliable. It is constant. It can be trusted.
God’s love endures forever (1 Chronicles 16:34)
Nothing can stop God’s love. It is not time bound. It has always existed and will always exist both now and in the future, into eternity.
God is abounding in love (Exodus 34:6)
God’s love is abundant. It is plentiful. It is overflowing. It is not stringent or in limited supply.
God’s love is great (Psalm 103:11)
God’s love is large from a volume perspective. It has been described as being higher than the heavens from an earthly perspective. God doesn’t have a little bit of love, He is love, abounds in love and has an excessive amount of love.
God’s love is directed at us (1 John 4:10)
God loves us…you and I…who He created. He loves us as we are and regardless of what we have done. There is nothing we can do that will result in God loving us any less. God’s love for us is not conditional and it is not discriminatory. He loves us all. He wants us to know and experience His love.
It is because of God’s love for us that God intervened in humanity to provide the only acceptable way for us to personally experience God’s love.
It is because of God’s love for us that we can stop being separated from God and be drawn close to God and experience God’s love, forgiveness, salvation, acceptance and eternal life.
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. (John 3:16)
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:8)
This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. (1 John 4:9-10)
Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions. Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. (Psalm 51:1-2)
It is because of God’s love for us that we can be called children of God.
See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! (1 John 3:1)
Based on my personal experience, knowing and experiencing God’s love for me is a unique, special and humbling experience where I feel totally accepted, valued and loved by God.
By accepting God’s love for me, including the expression of that love in what Jesus did for me, I can be confident that nothing can separate me from God’s love.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written: “For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:35-39)
You have a choice to accept or reject God’s love for you. God’s invitation is to accept and receive His bountiful, unfailing, eternal, great love for you.
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