Contemplating the source of love
We have just started the month of February and many people call it the ‘‘love month.” St. Valentine’s Day is a holiday when family and friends express their love for each other. I will not discuss St. Valentine’s Day but I will speak about God’s Love. In First John 4:8, ‘‘God is love.” NVI Also, it is in a verse of the Bible, John 3:16, ‘‘For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” NVI
I guess that it is the most famous verse of the Bible as it speaks about the love of God. Have you stopped to think about the love of God? It is very important to take time in our busy lives to try to understand God’s love and his sources with your whole mind and heart.
What is the expression, ‘‘God is love”? It is not just that God loves us, it is more than that. He is Love. Love is his own essence, one of the elements of his nature. We have the inclination and the tendency to think that the love of God is like our love, where it is motivated by the reaction of one’s relationship, that the love of God is a weakness, a feeling that is inspired by the emotions, whims, and passions. But His love is not like ours.
First, the love of God is intrinsic. What does that mean? Well, the love of God is his own source. No one is a motivation to God because he is his own source of love, as he is love.
We do not have anything that motivates God to love us. He just loves us because he is love, and it is part of his nature.
We are not the source of inspiration to God for His love. God wants to love, just because he is love, and he wants to love us.
Let’s see what it says in Deuteronomy 7: 7-8
‘‘The LORD did not set his affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples. But it was because the LORD loved you.” NVI
If we think deeply into this, what we have is the source of inspiration to the love of God What we could have is sin and darkness, but God is light and he repels the sin and the darkness. However, he is love and he, in his love, mercy, and grace, wants to love us.
The love of God is eternal. God is love and God is eternal. In other words, the love of God does not have a beginning and will not have end. It is forever and ever, Amen.
Now, we can feel and say that God will always love us. He loved us before the beginning and will love us forever. Jeremiah 31: 3 says, ‘‘I have loved you with an everlasting love.” NVI
We aren’t born by accident. God knew that you would be born. He created you. And before you born, he loved you and he still loves you and he will love you forever.
The love of God is infinite. His love does not have limits or boundaries. The love of God does not have measurements. Someone said that the love of God has a profundity that no one can drill; an altitude that no one can climb; a width and a longitude that are more than a human can fathom.
And with this love, God loves us, and he will love us forever.
Ephesians 2: 4 says, ‘‘but because of his great love for us, God is rich in mercy.” NVI
John says, ‘‘for God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life”. NVI The love of God is immutable.
The love of God does not have waivers, it is always there.
James 1: 17 says ‘‘Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.” NVI
God is love and for that reason his love will never change.
No matter what happens, God loves you with an infinite love and it will not change. It will be forever and just because of one reason, because he wants to...
‘‘For God so loved the world that he gave his one son and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”
Calvary is the highest, the greatest, and the maximum expression and demonstration of the divine love for us