We have been looking to get a nice used car for my daughter and this experience is turning into a labor of love, or is it a test of my love?? I seem to think the important things are to find a safe, reliable, dependable vehicle. Considerations such as make, model, color or trim level are not a high priority for me. My daughter seems to have a deferring opinion. Makes me wonder if we ever test the limits of God’s love. Well, I for one am grateful that God’s love is not like our love, but should not our love be more like God’s?
“Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes. God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted to do, and it gave him great pleasure.” Ephesians 1:4-5 NLT.
Here are somethings the Bible says about God’s love. First, He loved us before we even existed. He chooses us and made us part of His family, not because there was anything in us worth loving. Second, His love goes on forever, (His faithful love endures forever. Psalms 136) Third, real love is about the other person, not about us. True love gives, it never takes, and it comes at a cost for the one that is loving,
“This is real love—not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.” 1 John 4:10 NLT.
For God the cost of loving us was His only Son. He gave it all for us and yet how often are we unwilling to give an inch for someone else. If God’s love is to be the example of love for us to emulate then it is not going to be easy to love others, it will have a cost for us. The cost may not be our life, it may be our time, understanding, patients or forgiveness. But it will not be easy for true love goes against our human nature. Let us pray that God gives us the strength to have real Biblical love for everyone that comes into our lives.
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