Unconditional Love
Hi!
Brand new day but quite a redundant topic given everything we have been talking about during these past few weeks, but it’s alright. I believe that the Holy Spirit speaks to my heart for a good reason, you might need or appreciate it. At least, discovering more and more about God’s love fuels me on my spiritual journey. I hope it is the same for you.
I selected two passages that showed me God’s love for us; how the Father loves us. They show us how powerful and unconditional His love is. And before we get further, I would love to let you meditate on them:
John 3:16: “For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”
John 13:1-5: “It was just before the Passover Festival. Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. The evening meal was in progress, and the devil had already prompted Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, to betray Jesus. Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God; so he got up from the meal, took off his outer clothing, and wrapped a towel around his waist. After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him.”
This is the Father’s love for us. You can take a minute to praise Him for this. Indeed, Peter realized how humiliating it was for Jesus to wash his feet. Yet the Bible says it was the full extent of Jesus’ love for us. Pure and perfect humiliation with no one to save Him. The first time out of necessity to allow His disciples to be pure.
The second one, a public humiliation at the view of the entire city and to anyone who would want to see the show. Jesus, publicly naked, suffering for you and me. In order to bring a perfect reconciliation between the Father and us.
This is the full extent of a powerful, reckless, selfless Love for human beings who rejected Him, who deliberately forsook Him.
When the only thing we deserved was death because we put Him away from us, away from our hearts and our minds, God reached out to us with the only intent to bring us back to Him.
Am I writing an article to call you to give your heart to Jesus? Probably. Is it where I was going with it originally? Honestly, no. But we will definitely continue on our original topic next time.
Now, back to our main subject. I believe that there is one thing that we need to remember. It is that no one, absolutely no one, deserves the love that has been offered to us this whole time, for centuries. I know I am repeating it, but as I told you before, love gives everything. Including pride and honour. Because in the end, the love God has for us is able to make us better and how He desires if we submit to His will.
So, here’s my point for this week. Realize God’s love for you. Consider what it was asking from Him. Consider the sacrifice. And look around you. What is the greatest demonstration of love you have ever received from men? And how have you experienced the full extent of Christ’s love for you?
I will let you meditate on this and will come back in about a month to finish off with this topic. For now at least…
Have a blessed week,
With all of my affection,
Do