Valentines Day is over. You know what that means?
Half off on candy in your local grocery store! You can stock up on Valentine’s for next year.
Even though Valentines Day is over, I still want to talk about the L word–Love.
I tweeted a few weeks ago about God’s love.
“When you think you’ve understood everything there is about Gods love, you realize there is so much more. Wrecked by love.”-@sarahhhvictoriaÂ
We will never really grasp all the characteristics of God’s love & that’s ok! I would much rather fall more in love with Him everyday then learn all there is about Him and get bored.
I was listening to a sermon on YouTube from Louie Giglio. Can’t remember what sermon it was because I watched multiple sermons from multiple pastors or I would share the link with you. Something Louie said was that God loves us unconditional. I’ve heard the word unconditional countless times. I’ve used the word unconditional many times in conversations. But I never thought about the word unconditional.
Louie phrased God’s love like this. “God loves us without condition. There is no qualification that we have to meet for Him to love us. We didn’t do anything. He loves us without condition.”
Now, I didn’t quote him word by word but I hope you get the gist.
He loves us without condition.
Think about it.
God knew us before we were formed in our mothers womb. He knew our steps in life, our passions, & how we would serve Him OR not serve Him. Even though He knew about everything we would do–things that would disappoint Him, break His heart, etc. He still chose to love us.
He is our yearly Valentine.
Daily we are consumed with His love even when we don’t deserve it.
His love compared to love between people is radically different.
When I love someone, there is a reason behind it.
“I love my friends because they do _________ (fill in the blank).” -Me
“I love when my mom makes ____________ (fill in the blank).” -Me
But when God loves us, there is no reason at all. It’s just because He loves. (1 John 4:8)
“I love you. No reason. I just do.” -God
When you’ve messed up, cursed God, fallen far from Him or have never accepted Him into your heart–know this–God loves you, just because that’s who He is.
--by their fruit-- 