Trust . . . His Love

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1. The beginning of God's love for you was unconditional . . .
   There was nothing in you, the object of His love, that called His love into exercise. There was nothing in you that attracted or prompted His love to begin for you. Unlike human love, which begins because of an attraction to the one being loved, the love of God is without conditions. It is free and uncaused. "The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because you were . . . pur any thing you like in this blank about yourself) . . . but because the Lord loved you""according to His own purpose" (II Timothy 1:9). How is this possible?

   Three things are told us in Scripture of the nature of God . . . "God is spirit" (John 4:24); "God is light" (I John 1:5); and "God is love" (I John 4:8). This is who God is. Therefore, "The love of God is not drawn out by our loveableness, but wells up inside Himself like an artesian spring" Charles Spurgeon.

2. The boundaries of God's love for you are eternal . . .
   "I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore . . . have I drawn thee" (Jeremiah 31:3). God did not love you in time, He loved you before time. Paul said, "He hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love" (Ephesians 2:4).

   For this reason, the focus on your relationship with God should be not your love for Him, but His love for you. You are more pleasing to Him when you trust His love than when you try to prove your love.

3. The breadth of God's love for you is unfathomable . . .
   Paul prays for the Christians in Ephesus that God would allow them "to know the love of Christ, which passes knowledge . . ." (Ephesians 3:19). When you think you begin to know it, you don't.

   "No tongue can fully express the infinitude of God's love, or any mind comprehend it: it 'passeth knowledge' (Ephesians 3:19). The most extensive ideas that a finite mind can frame about divine love, are infinitely below its true nature. The heave is not so far above the earth as the goodness of God is beyond the most raised conceptions which we are able to form of it. The love of God is an ocean that swells higher than all the mountains of opposition in those whoa re the objects of that love. It is a fountain from which flows all good to all those who have an interest in it" (John Brine, 1743).

   
   
4. The blessing of God's love is this -- it is immutable . . .
   With God there "is no variableness, neither shadow of turning" (James 1:17). His love, which is His nature, knows neither change nor diminution. When God said, "Jacob have I loved," that love for Jacob never wavered or changed despite all his unbelief and waywardness. "Nothing can separate us from His love" (Romans 8:39), and God's love is "strong . . . many waters cannot quench it" (Song of Solomon 8:6).
   
   Food for Thought:
   
   1. Christ did not die to get God to love His people; Christ died because God loved His people.
   2. The Father loved His Son, yet Christ was not rich, often disgraced and severely persecuted. Let no Christian call into question God's love when he is brought under painful affliction. Spiritual blessings are the gifts of divine love. There is no greater joy than to trust His love.

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