Monday, July 18, 2016

God's Limitless Love!



“And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began.” (John 17:5)

We will never fully understand the extent of the sacrifice God made in the gospel without understanding the immensity of the love/bond that exists within the Trinity—the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—from all eternity.

On the cross Jesus cried out, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” (Matthew 27:46b)   And that was the greatest demonstration of love to have ever taken place.  The Triune God willingly endured such cruel and violent separation for our sakes in the central event of all history, the cross.

G.K. Chesterton called this the “furious love of God.”  I believe the hardest thing in the world for human beings to believe is that God loves us so much and wants us to be reconciled to Him.  The Christian life begins with the love of God.  Throughout his writings the Apostle John was moved to refer to himself as “the disciple whom Jesus loved.”

We all have a love; a need that can only be met by the unfaltering, unchangeable love of God. Our deepest emotional and spiritual needs are never met by material things such as prestige or power, exhilarating experiences, beauty, or human love.  All of our human desires and longings are only symptoms of our need for Him.  Psalm 42:1 expresses this need, “As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God.”  He Himself is the Bread of Life and the Water of Life. 

When we are gripped by the love of God, He frees us from being emotionally and spiritually crippled.  When we realize how we are loved, then we can stop loving ourselves and start loving others.  He enables us to love others, even our enemies.  When old age, life-threatening illness, or danger threatens us, we can look with confidence to God’s loving promise of eternal life with Him.

The love of God gives us purpose.  The purpose for our lives grows out of His love.  He liberates us from self-love.  Our love relationship with God rules our relationships with others.  He enables us to begin to love unlovable sinners as He loves us.  When we are angry, depressed, struggling, feeling insecure, we can bring these things to Him.  He cares about every aspect of our lives.  When our sins and fears are petty and downright embarrassing, we can come clean with Him, for He is the Sinner’s Friend.

I believe He wants to see our lives, like John’s, stuck on one theme: the unfailing and limitless love of God.








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