THE GOD KIND OF LOVE

1 Corinthians 13:4 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous, or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record or being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.

Some people are very easy to love aren’t they? They just have winning personalities that draw you to them. Equally there are some who do the opposite!

But God wants to draw us to Him. His word says He lavishes His love on us, that His love is everlasting and unconditional. God’s love goes beyond any human kind of love because it is so unselfish, it has no agenda other than to bless us. 

God even goes a step further and says He places His love inside our hearts by the Holy Spirit so we can love Him in return and love others too.(Romans 5:5) He reminds us that He is love and tells us some of what that means in our verses above.

Anyone can tell you they love you, but it’s not till they show you that it means anything. God showed us in the ultimate way by giving us His only Son to die in our place to take all our sin away on the Cross forever. What kind of love is that? It’s the God kind of love, the love that goes above and beyond on our behalf.

I remember flinging myself across my bed one day so very many years ago and crying out “God I feel like no one loves me and You only love me because you have to!” How wrong I was! At that point I hadn’t grasped or really believed how much God really loves each one of us, how deep His love is. He didn’t have to love us. He wanted to, and still does.

If you’ve never known the love of God for yourself why not ask Him to reveal it to you personally? What better day than today?🙂 In fact, everyone of us can do that, because we all need deeper understanding of how huge God’s love is for us all. 

On this Valentine’s Day all I can do is pass on what I know, and that is that God Loves You. He gave us Jesus, the dearest One to His heart, so you could belong to Him. He loves you to the Cross and back and He always will.❤️ God bless you.