Have you ever reflected on God’s love, truly reflected on it? The amazing thing about God’s love is there is nothing we can do to earn and there is nothing we can do to lose it. God’s love isn’t a feeling or an emotion – God is love! Everything that makes God God is that he is love.
“Christ died for us at a time when we were helpless and sinful. 7 No one is really willing to die for an honest person, though someone might be willing to die for a truly good person. 8 But God showed how much he loved us by having Christ die for us, even though we were sinful.
9 But there is more! Now that God has accepted us because Christ sacrificed his life’s blood, we will also be kept safe from God’s anger. 10 Even when we were God’s enemies, he made peace with us, because his Son died for us. Yet something even greater than friendship is ours. Now that we are at peace with God, we will be saved by his Son’s life.” Romans 5:6-10 CEV
Yesterday television was filled with programming on people who are striving to be acknowledged as the “best”. Awards shows, play-off games, most valuable player of the game, economic advisors, news pundits, politicians – all vying for a place in the spot light, all wanting acknowledgement for who they are. They’ve lost sight of the most important thing; God loves them and that is irrefutable.
“Christ died for us at a time when we were helpless and sinful. 7 No one is really willing to die for an honest person, though someone might be willing to die for a truly good person. 8 But God showed how much he loved us by having Christ die for us, even though we were sinful.
9 But there is more! Now that God has accepted us because Christ sacrificed his life’s blood, we will also be kept safe from God’s anger. 10 Even when we were God’s enemies, he made peace with us, because his Son died for us. Yet something even greater than friendship is ours. Now that we are at peace with God, we will be saved by his Son’s life.” Ephesians 3:6-10 NLV
We have been conditioned to try and earn love. That kind of love is selfish and vain. It is based on what I do to make you happy; what I say to make you look good; how I look to keep you from being embarrassed, etc. We hear some say “I just don’t love them any more, we’ve fallen out of love, I’ve fallen in love with someone else”. But that love is based on a feeling, any emotional response. But that’s so contrary to God’s love.
“And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. 39 No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 8:38-39 NLT
Nothing, NOTHING, can separate us from God’s love! You may have awaken with a feeling of loneliness or depression; you may feel unworthy or unrecognized by those around you but that’s not from God. He won’t allow anything to separate us from His love.
“I pray that you will be able to understand how wide and how long and how high and how deep His love is. 19 I pray that you will know the love of Christ. His love goes beyond anything we can understand. I pray that you will be filled with God Himself.
20 God is able to do much more than we ask or think through His power working in us.” Ephesians 3:18-20 NLV
Those words are part of a prayer that the Apostle Paul was praying for the people in a city call Ephesus. They are also the words I pray for myself and for you. I want us all to be consciously aware of the greatness of God’s love for us.
There truly is Nothing Greater!