GOD'S UNCONDITIONAL LOVE

 

GOD’S UNCONDITIONAL LOVE

I Cor. 13:4-8a

There so many different meanings to the word love. People use it to describe their feelings about other people, pets, places, jobs, food, etc. We are limited by language to differentiate our feelings from one object to the other. The love of God is set apart from all other kinds of love we may have. I Cor. 13:4-8a describes what God’s love is like. It speaks of relational love in its highest form.

God loves us without regard to who we are. He is love and loves all people equally. God does not prefer any people group or individual over another. Gal.3:28; John 3:16 God loves you. No matter if you feel unwanted or unloved, God loves you. If no one has ever told you that you are loved, listen to what I am saying, “God loves you.” God so loves you that He lovingly and willfully went to the cross to die in your place for your sin. He made the ultimate sacrifice for you so that you can be set free from your sins and all that would entangle you and keep you from becoming the person He created you to be.

God loves us without regard for our goodness. Matt. 10:18 No one who has ever lived is good enough to deserve God’s love. No one can ever be good enough to be saved. No one will ever make it into heaven based on their goodness. God does for us what we can never do on our own. God never turns away someone who sincerely comes to Him for the forgiveness of their sins. God never abandons those who trust Him with their lives. When Jesus forgives us for our sins. God never looks at us beyond Christ’s righteousness and holiness. Our sins become in God’s eyes as if they never existed.

God loves us without regard for our faithfulness. II Tim. 2:13 God knows we are not perfect and will never perfectly obey Him. He knows we will mess up. He knows we will need to come to Him often to confess our sins, be renewed, and encouraged to go and sin no more. God knows that when we sincerely are trying to be faithful, we will not always succeed. Because He is faithful to love us just as we are, He does not let us get away with our sins or Him. He takes us by the hand and draws us back to Him.

God loves you; He always has and always will, with no strings attached.