Gospel

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GOD'S UNFAILING LOVE

John Simmons

The Bible is a book about Love. It is a Book about God's Love. From cover to cover, in thousands of different scenarios and illustrations, the infinite Love that God has for us is revealed. God's love for us is an unchanging reality that knows no limits, or boundaries. He loves us so much that He wants us to experience the same kind of love for Him, that He has for us. God wants us to know Him as our Father, and be a part of His Eternal loving Family. He has been enlarging and growing His Family for time immemorial, and He continues to adopt into His Family those who respond to His call to love in the affirmative.

Out of His Love for us, He keeps His angels with us while we travel through a darkened world, even before we know Him as our Father. Out of His Love for us, He reaches down into our darkness and does His best to bring us out, into His marvelous Light. How we respond to Him is always our choice. It is a choice of life or death. It is because He loves us that He allows us to try to live life "our own way", without Him, until we've come up against enough of the "brick walls" of our lives to finally be receptive to Him, and His offer of Eternal Life and Peace.

It is because He loves us that He leads us, as His children, through valleys in life that are sometimes dark and uncertain, where we learn to trust in His "rod and staff" of protection, correction, and guidance. It is because He loves us that He allows us, as His children, to suffer the pain and consequences of our willful wrongdoing. His love desires for us the blessedness that He can only send into our lives, when we are faithful and obedient to Him.

It was God's love that clothed Adam and Eve with animal skins after they disobeyed Him, and realized that they were naked before Him. It was God's love that tested Abraham, and asked him to sacrifice his only son, to prove Abraham. It was God's love that parted the waters of the Red Sea, making a way of escape for His People from the pursuit of the armies of Pharoah. It was God's love that caused the walls of water to return again, and destroy Israel's enemies. Because of His love the walls of Jericho fell, when the trumpet sounded. It was God's love that sped the stone that left David's sling, directing it to land surely and squarely on Goliath's forehead, vanquishing David's enemy. It was God's Love alone that motivated Jesus Christ to stretch out His arms, and die in our places, taking the punishment that we all deserve for breaking His Supreme Law of Love.

Everything we read of Him in His Word, everything He does, is done with love and kindness toward us as His primary motive. His love for us is something that we cannot comprehend, just by knowing about it. The only way we can even begin to understand the great and limitless Love of God, is to accept His love into our hearts. Only then can we begin to experience what John the Apostle was talking about when he said that "....God IS Love."

John Simmons © January 3, 2009

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