As we celebrate the season of love, let us be reminded of the love of our heavenly Father.
God’s love if far different from the love of people. His love is perfect and it’s not based on something we have done and didn’t do. Remember that even while we were still sinners, He sent Christ to die for our sins and save us from death. The Bible says God is love, that means He is love in itself. He is the genesis of this emotion we call ‘love’ so you can imagine how great and powerful the love He has. Aren’t you thankful to have a God that loves so deeply? I definitely am.
Here’s a challenge for you:
It’s typical in this season of love to exchange gifts with our loved ones and family and I want to challenge us to do same with God. Well, we can’t gift Him flowers, chocolates or any other material possessions, not that I think He wants it anyway. But I know something our Father will love and here I highlight it in two scriptures below:
Matthew 22:37-38 “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment.”
1 John 4:19 “We love because He first loved us.”
I’m sure by now, you have guessed it! Yes, God desires our love too. This is all He is asking of us, to love Him in return. And I’m sure we can gift Him this by choosing to love Him intentionally from now on.
What is one thing we want to do when we love someone? I believe we are always eager to spend time with them and enjoy getting to know them. So, that’s the first step in giving God this gift! Get to know Him and enjoy spending time with Him.
Now, will you be taking up this challenge?
Here are some bible passages reminding us of God’s love:
1) . God’s love for us is so great that nothing can separate us from His love. Even when we are faced with tribulations, persecutions, hardship, etc. His word says we shall rise above them because of His love towards us.
Romans 8:35-39
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written: “For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
2). He loved us while we were still sinners. It was this love that made Him send His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ to die for our sins.
Romans 5:8
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
3). He loves us enough to call us His beloved children
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so, we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
4). His love brings us mercy and grace.
But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved
