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God’s Amazing Love For Us
God’s Amazing Love For Us
David W Palmer
God’s love is amazing; it is what the whole universe emanated from. Lets continue our learning about his love by looking at his love for his family, for sinners, and for the world:
(1 John 4:19 NKJV) “We love Him because He first loved us.”
We see here that God not only loves us, but that he loved us first—well before we ever loved him. We learn from this that God’s love takes the initiative to reach out before there is any possibility of a loving response. Also, we see that he initiates love that is unreserved in the face of possible rejection. It may be very challenging, but we should imitate his love for others; and we can, seeing his love has been poured into our hearts (Rom. 5:5) and that “love never fails” (1 Cor. 13:8 NKJV).
Following is a list of Scriptures in several categories that give greater detail of various other aspects of God’s amazing love.
1. God loves the world
(John 3:16 NKJV) “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”
This, of course, doesn’t mean that God loves “worldliness.” It does however mean that his love for people is so strong that it motivated him to reach out. By giving his son Jesus, he set up the plan of redemption so that everyone in the whole world could be reconciled to him. And through this reconciliation, we are eligible for life everlasting. Praise the Lord!
(1 John 4:9 NKJV) “In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.”
2. God’s love for sinners
(Romans 5:8 NKJV) “But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
This is a very amazing aspect of God’s love. He not only had the feelings of love towards us as sinners, but he demonstrated that love. And he demonstrated it in the most convincing way possible. Christ died for us when we were still estranged from him. This truly is a description of what real love is all about. What’s more, it is because of Jesus’s love-motivated death and resurrection that we are now accepted by God and reconciled to him.
(Ephesians 1:6 NKJV) “To the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He has made us accepted in the Beloved.”
What is to be our response to this amazing love? The apostle Paul said that his response was to live his life so fully submitted to the Lord Jesus that it was literally Christ living in and through him. This should be our response too. Jesus expects us to live our life in a way that is so “compelled” by love that it is indistinguishable from his life.
(Galatians 2:20 NKJV) “I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.”
3. God’s love for his family
(1 John 3:1 NKJV) “Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.”
(Ephesians 2:4 NKJV) “But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us.”
The overwhelming impact of these verses is that God loves us; he absolutely loves his family. He loved us enough to die for us before we responded; how much more is his love assured to us now that we have responded. He has adopted us as his very own family members; and he loves each of us way beyond our natural comprehension. In fact, we need Holy Spirit revelation to grasp the extent of his love. When we receive it, we will have his grace to extend the same love to others. I encourage you to pray the following prayer for yourself and for others daily:
(Ephesians 3:14–19 NKJV) “For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, {15} from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, {16} that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, {17} that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, {18} may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height— {19} to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
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By DAVID W. PALMERGod’s Amazing Love For Us
David W Palmer
God’s love is amazing; it is what the whole universe emanated from. Lets continue our learning about his love by looking at his love for his family, for sinners, and for the world:
(1 John 4:19 NKJV) “We love Him because He first loved us.”
We see here that God not only loves us, but that he loved us first—well before we ever loved him. We learn from this that God’s love takes the initiative to reach out before there is any possibility of a loving response. Also, we see that he initiates love that is unreserved in the face of possible rejection. It may be very challenging, but we should imitate his love for others; and we can, seeing his love has been poured into our hearts (Rom. 5:5) and that “love never fails” (1 Cor. 13:8 NKJV).
Following is a list of Scriptures in several categories that give greater detail of various other aspects of God’s amazing love.
1. God loves the world
(John 3:16 NKJV) “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”
This, of course, doesn’t mean that God loves “worldliness.” It does however mean that his love for people is so strong that it motivated him to reach out. By giving his son Jesus, he set up the plan of redemption so that everyone in the whole world could be reconciled to him. And through this reconciliation, we are eligible for life everlasting. Praise the Lord!
(1 John 4:9 NKJV) “In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.”
2. God’s love for sinners
(Romans 5:8 NKJV) “But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
This is a very amazing aspect of God’s love. He not only had the feelings of love towards us as sinners, but he demonstrated that love. And he demonstrated it in the most convincing way possible. Christ died for us when we were still estranged from him. This truly is a description of what real love is all about. What’s more, it is because of Jesus’s love-motivated death and resurrection that we are now accepted by God and reconciled to him.
(Ephesians 1:6 NKJV) “To the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He has made us accepted in the Beloved.”
What is to be our response to this amazing love? The apostle Paul said that his response was to live his life so fully submitted to the Lord Jesus that it was literally Christ living in and through him. This should be our response too. Jesus expects us to live our life in a way that is so “compelled” by love that it is indistinguishable from his life.
(Galatians 2:20 NKJV) “I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.”
3. God’s love for his family
(1 John 3:1 NKJV) “Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.”
(Ephesians 2:4 NKJV) “But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us.”
The overwhelming impact of these verses is that God loves us; he absolutely loves his family. He loved us enough to die for us before we responded; how much more is his love assured to us now that we have responded. He has adopted us as his very own family members; and he loves each of us way beyond our natural comprehension. In fact, we need Holy Spirit revelation to grasp the extent of his love. When we receive it, we will have his grace to extend the same love to others. I encourage you to pray the following prayer for yourself and for others daily:
(Ephesians 3:14–19 NKJV) “For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, {15} from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, {16} that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, {17} that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, {18} may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height— {19} to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.