God Loves Us

Let me start out with saying this, the extent of God’s love for us cannot be measured.  We can talk about it and think about it and even fantasize about it but our finite minds cannot comprehend it.  How can we come close to knowing the love of a God that wouldn’t accept our works or anything we could do to make us right with Him; we couldn’t even buy our pardon, He did it all!  Think about that, there is no way possible for us to have had a relationship with Him, it was virtually impossible.  He sent His only begotten Son to suffer a horrendous death to buy our pardon.  

You might say that not too far into man’s existence the blood of animals was being shed for man to be right with God, but the blood of animals showed the obedience of man to God’s written law in the Old Covenant but could never wash away the crimson stain of sin that separated us from God and it could never set us free of sin or change us from the inside out.  Only the blood of Jesus cleanses sin and purifies the heart of man and sets men and women free of sin’s power.

Read what it says in Hebrews 10:1-12, “For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with these same sacrifices, which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach perfect. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? For the worshipers, once purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins. But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins.

Therefore, when He came into the world, He said:

‘Sacrifice and offering You did not desire,

But a body You have prepared for Me.

In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin

You had no pleasure.

Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come—

In the volume of the book it is written of Me—

To do Your will, O God.’

Previously saying, ‘Sacrifice and offering, burnt offerings, and offerings for sin You did not desire, nor had pleasure in them’ (which are offered according to the law), then He said, ‘Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God.’ He takes away the first that He may establish the second. By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

And every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God.”

Paul said this to the Ephesians about the magnitude of God’s love in Ephesians 3:14-19, “For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height— to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.”

God’s love reaches into every aspect of our lives and no matter where you go or how far you run, you cannot escape from it.  His love envelops our lives because it is all around us and like I said we cannot fully understand or comprehend it!!

Read what it says about God’s love in Romans 8:31-39, “What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written:

“For Your sake we are killed all day long;

We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”

Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

We may never comprehend the full reality of the love of God but I think the most important issue here is that it is true that God loves us unconditionally and He is always for us and not against us regardless of what we feel like or what we are going through.  Praise God!!  I hope this has been an encouragement to you and that you will have a great day.  May the good Lord bless you and yours!!