God’s Love For Us

God’s limitless loving touch gives us all the encouragement and hope we’ll ever need, and His love will never fail, because it’s by His grace, and not upon anything we do.

This leads me then to another aspect of God’s love, and that is,

6. God’s Love is Filled With Grace

God’s love is inseparably linked with His grace, which is the basis upon which He first chose us, and His grace is the basis upon which He continues to lavish His love.

“But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more.” (Romans 5:20b NKJV)

Some commentators translate “abounded much more” as “superabounded.” God’s love is so great that no sin is too great for God to forgive. We just have to confess and repent.

We see God’s grace and his unchanging love in the story of the prodigal son.

Here the son asked for his inheritance early, in essence rebelling against his father’s rule. He then took that money and committed all kinds of sin until the money ran out. Having no money he hired himself out to a pig farm where he had to muck the stuff and feed the pigs their swill. It got so bad that the pigswill started looking good.

He then realized how his father took good care of those who worked for him, and so he headed back home hoping just to be hired on as one of the workers.

Now the father was just waiting for his son to return home keeping watch day and night. And when the father saw his son coming, he ran to him, put his arms around him, put upon him new clothes, and put upon his finger the family’s signet ring welcoming him back into the family.

And this is the grace we all need. Anyone who’s in desperate need and willing to admit their condition, God shows His love. But we must be willing to say, “I’m messed up, I’m needy, and I’m unable to do this in my own strength. So, I bring all of my messed up, needy, and weak self to You Father.”

And God says, “Come, I’ll take it, because I love you.”

God’s love for us is based upon His grace, and in God’s grace He’s made the way for us to come to Him, through His Son, Jesus Christ.

7. God’s Love is Sacrificial

When it comes to human love we like to see more action behind the words. As the saying goes, “Action speaks louder than words.”

The Bible is full of words about God’s love for us, but God also put those words into action when He sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to die upon the cross. God paid the highest price possible so that we could experience the fullness of His love and have that personal relationship with Him.

It was a costly love, a sacrificial love.

Jesus said,

“Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends.” (John 15:13 NKJV)

Now, such love is foreign to us, and our sinful nature.

Paul said,

“For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” (Romans 5:6-8 NKJV)

Jesus went beyond dying for His friends, He died for His enemies, that is, He died for you and me, because we are all sinners. He sacrificed Himself for us so that we could have an everlasting loving relationship with Him. And so God’s love is truly the greatest love of them all.