Daily Journal: 14 September
Updated: Aug 31
The Essential Study
of God’s Love
2 Thessalonians 3:5 (NIV)
May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love and Christ’s perseverance.
What is God’s love?
Let's embrace the study of God’s love. It will never be exhaustive. It's a study that we continue throughout life.
God is love.
1 John 4:8 (ESV) Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
God's love is eternal.
Psalm 136:1 (ESV) Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever.
God has decided to love us and that will never change.
Malachi 3:6 (NET) “Since, I, the Lord, do not go back on my promises, you, sons of Jacob, have not perished.
God's love is a gift He freely gives and we receive by faith.
Ephesians 2:8-9 (NIV) For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—
Even while we were still sinners Christ demonstrated the love of God for us by His own death.
Romans 5:8 (NASB) But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
He then demonstrated our own future resurrection by His resurrection to glory.
1 Corinthians 15:20-22 (NCV) But Christ has truly been raised from the dead—the first one and proof that those who sleep in death will also be raised. Death has come because of what one man did, but the rising from death also comes because of one man. In Adam all of us die. In the same way, in Christ all of us will be made alive again.
Nothing can separate us from God's love because of Jesus Christ.
Romans 8:38-39 (NLV) For I know that nothing can keep us from the love of God. Death cannot! Life cannot! Angels cannot! Leaders cannot! Any other power cannot! Hard things now or in the future cannot! The world above or the world below cannot! Any other living thing cannot keep us away from the love of God which is ours through Christ Jesus our Lord.
God is gracious towards us, being sinners, yet, He demonstrates continual faithfulness.
Psalm 86:15 (NCV) But, Lord, you are a God who shows mercy and is kind. You don’t become angry quickly. You have great love and faithfulness.
God's love was demonstrated through Christ’s perseverance.
2 Thessalonians 3:5 (NIV) May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love and Christ’s perseverance.
In realising God’s love I am led to Christ. In being led to Christ, I understand that the meaning of life itself is the importance of being united with, and loved by God.
Hebrews 12:2 (NIV)
fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Our souls do not perish. The most expensive, precious things are not anything the world can offer us, but our souls that last forever and will, one day, be with or without Him. That is our choice.
To receive God’s amazing love, freely given so that we can freely receive, signifies a life that will go on forever without fault or pain or suffering.
Revelation 21:4 (NLT)
He will wipe every tear from their eyes, and there will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain. All these things are gone forever.”
Do you know the worth of the essential study of God's love? What does having God's love mean for you?
Lord, help us to comprehend your love, even though it really is incomprehensible. Let the knowledge of your love comfort us and cause us to wonder, and decide, whether that isn’t everything we need, forever. Help us to know the worth of your love and to receive it, and to be healed by it.
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