God’s Love For Us

When we repent of our evil and our sin, then God relents, that is, He changes His method from punishment to blessing.

This is the heart of God. Listen to what He said through the prophet Ezekiel.

“But if a wicked man turns away from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he will save his life.” (Ezekiel 18:27 NKJV)

In grace God relents of His judgment when we repent of our sins. Therefore, God’s love toward us is unchanging.

4. God’s Loves Us In Rebellion

We can see God’s amazing unchanging love for us in the Old Testament book of Hosea. Even though the people turned to other gods, even though they rebelled against God and His love for them, God still declared His unfailing, unchanging, everlasting love for them.

“Oh, how can I give you up, Israel? How can I let you go? How can I destroy you like Admah and Zeboiim? My heart is torn within Me, and my compassion overflows.” (Hosea 11:8 NLT)

This was God’s love toward Israel, even though Israel continually broke His heart by rebelling. In this love God continually warned the people, but the people refused to listen. Finally, in love He disciplined them, and the Bible clearly states God disciplines those He loves. (Hebrews 12:6)

And the purpose is to bring us to Him, because God cannot stand to have us separated from Him. God will never give up on us, nor will He ever abandon us, even though we may have given up and abandoned Him.

And that’s comforting to know. That while we may put other things in front of God, God still loves us, and will discipline us so that we will not stray too far.

And so, while we may have failed in one way or another, God’s love never fails and is always going to be there fore us, and in His love for us He always brings us back to Himself. For this to take place we must confess our sins and repent, that is, we must turn away from our sins and turn towards God. When we do, God’s love will overflow into our hearts and into our lives.

5. God Loves Us Without Limits

God’s love is infinite. His love has no limitations or boundaries, thus we’ll never be able to go beyond His love.

The Apostle Paul said,

“May your roots go down deep into the soil of God's marvelous love. And may you have the power to understand, as all God's people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep His love really is.” (Ephesians 3:17b-18 NLT)

Apostle Paul then said we’d know and experience the greatness of God’s love, and that’s it’s far greater than anything we’ll ever know, and it’ll accomplish within us infinitely more than we would ever dare to hope.

God’s love is limitless, and there’s no situation we’ll face that He’ll not give us the strength, encouragement, and hope to see us through.

Paul said,

“May our Lord Jesus Christ and God our Father, who loved us and in His special favor gave us everlasting comfort and good hope, comfort your hearts and give you strength in every good thing you do and say.” (2 Thessalonians 2:16-17 NLT)

In other words, God doesn’t parcel out His love; rather His love is boundless and endlessly flows towards us. It literally floods our hearts.