I remember being taught God loved me as a young child. However, it wasn't until recently that I began to understand the depth and unconditional qualities of his love.
God's love is unconditional. God loves you the same on your bad days as he loves you on your best days. He doesn't love you more when you spend a small fortune in donations, just as he doesn't love you any less when you fail him. Regardless of how many times you fail him. He loves you the same ALWAYS. And he love us all EQUALLY! His love for you is quite possibly the most constant and consistent thing in existence. He loves you immeasurably just the way you are. That being said, the ability to please God and obtain his favor are completely separate from his steadfast love.
God's love is eternal. God loved you before you were even formed. You were uniquely crafted, exquisitely by him to his liking, for his will. And I am certain he will continue to love you long after your time on earth is complete.
Although truly understanding God's love is beyond our human grasp, the closest relatable and tangible love we can experience is the love of a parent for a child. No matter what your child does whether you swell with pride or shutter with disappointment your love for your child remains the same, constant and unaffected. Now, take the most incredible love we are able to comprehend, parental love, and try and grasp what God gave us in Jesus. God sent his only son here to Earth to expiernce both love and pain, and ultimately sacrifice his life and save us. It's mind blowing, humbling, and inspiring.
God's love is limitless. There is quite literally nothing you can do to escape his love. A love, which is deeper, and stronger than we can imagine. Rejoice and be glad. How marvelous it is to be loved so deeply and unconditionally.
Bible verses to consider:
Ephesians 3:16-19
16that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Romans 8:39
39nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
John 4:8
8Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
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