Utmost love!
Verse for Today: Friday, November 15, 2013
Jeremiah 31:3 – “I have loved you with an everlasting
love; I have drawn you with loving kindness”.
It is well nigh impossible to find unadulterated love and
kindness in this world. There are covert and overt motives behind almost all
expressions of love and kindness. Everyone expects something in return for the
way they care for us. Hospitals provide care for a fee and orphanages show love
and kindness for a donation from someone. Organizations ask us to work for them
so that they can show us some kindness in paying salary and benefits. Almost
all human relationships are bound by some expectations and hidden motives. When
we keep paying back for the care, concern and affection that we get from almost
any source, we tend to lose our trust in such sources of love. Nothing is free
in this world and genuine love is hard to find. The less return they obtain
from us, the less they care for us and that makes us lose our faith in
institutions, relationships and persons. But that is not the case with God. He
loves us unconditionally and shows abundance of kindness to us without
expecting anything in return. He shows concern and compassion to us not because
we deserve it, but because it is God’s essential character to love us humans.
He loves us without a cause and without any selfish motives whatsoever. He
shows mercy to us because without His mercy, we would be totally lost. He shows
love and concern to us by providing us with the basic needs of air, water,
atmosphere, food, basic health and other living conditions. God has also given
us a sound mind to think about Him and to develop a desire to become His
children. Even when we disobey God, He comes to us to show concern and love. He
desires that we get our life problems settled with Him and live as His
children. He wants us to enjoy His everlasting love which doesn’t diminish in
its intensity. His love never gets exhausted and will not dry up.
Dear friend, are you seeking true, unconditional love that
doesn’t expect anything in return? Have you been grossly disappointed in not
being able to find such love? Well, it can be found only in God because God is
love. He loved you and sent His Son to die for you so that you can be saved.
His love comes to you when you experience hatred, rejection, resentment,
isolation, deceit and discrimination. His love fills your heart and removes the
vacuum in your life. He accepts you unconditionally. His love receives you into
His family where He is your loving Father and you are a beloved child. He gives
you the warmth and fellowship of the heavenly family and makes you feel wanted
and important. He gives you great privileges in your new heavenly family along
with responsibilities. When the whole world thinks that you are unlovable and
unlikable, God’s love makes you a partaker of the grace that God makes
available to you. Remember, when God loved you, He loved His enemy so that you
may be adopted as His beloved child. Today you are accepted in and through the Lord
Jesus Christ and all the blessings of the heavenly places are bestowed upon
you. His love satisfies your every longing and fulfills your every desire for
acceptance and belongingness. God has appointed His holy angles to encompass around
you and protect you from all evil. His Spirit dwells in your heart and leads
you each day in this world to fulfill His purposes in you. His goodness and
kindness are your escorts on your sides as you walk through this wilderness towards
your heavenly destination.
Song of Songs 2:4 – He has taken me to the banquet hall,
and his banner over me is love.
Thought for Today
The love of God desires to own me completely as His precious
child with all my inadequacies.
Prayer for Today
Dear Lord Jesus: Help me to respond to Your love by
surrendering myself completely to You today as a living sacrifice. Amen!
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