The Love Of God

  -One day, I was wondering what to write about for my next
blog when the thought came to me, "Tell them that I love them". I knew that
it was God speaking to me through His Holy Spirit. So I say to anybody who
is reading this that God loves YOU. Knowing that God loves me has had a
stabalizing effect on me. There are a few aspects of God's love that mean a
lot to me.

First, God's love is all-encompassing. God loves every, single person-from
the Queen to a little child starving in Africa. And everybody in between.
That includes ME! I find it mind-boggling to be loved by the Almighty God.
God does not love everything that we do, but that doesn't change the
fact that God loves people.

The second thing about the love of God is that it is eternal. Human love has
a starting point and, judging by all the divorces, all too often has an
ending point. But the love of God goes on and on and on and on...

The love of God is unconditional. Too often, human love has its conditions.
It implies that, if you do this or don't do that, then I will love you. But
the love of God is not the same as human love. There is nothing we can to do
to make Him love us more and nothing, absolutely nothing, that we can or
cannot do to make Him love us less.

The love of God is unchanging. He loves us just as much when we are doing
things that don't please Him as when He is happy with us. Kind of like human
parents. We love our children just as much when we are punishing them as
when they are making us happy with them.

Finally, God's love is totally unselfish. What can be more unselfish than
having His Son die on a cross for us? When I was first a Christian, I used to
wonder if I could let my own son die for other people. The answer is a
resounding "NO"!

Having established that God loves us, all of us, all of the time, doesn't mean,
though, that we will all be going to heaven. God does have a few conditions
for that. It is really pretty simple. Pray and ask Jesus to forgive your
sins and come to live in your heart. But you have to really mean it because
Jesus will know if it is just words or if you genuinely mean it.