There is a love that goes way beyond this human love, and that is God's love. I can't explain it, but I would like to tell about it. When we say ‘God is Love’ this is not giving a definition of God. To say, "God is Love," means that this is an Attribute of God, a fact about Him just as the facts that He is Good, Holy, and Faithful. His love had no beginning and will have no end. He loves as much at one moment as He does another, because as God He does not change. Because He is God and without limits, His love has no limits.
We cannot really define "Love’, but we know about love by how it is revealed to the one that is loved. I Corinthians 13 is a chapter given entirely to an attempt to define love. Specifically: Love is patient, love is kind; not envious; not boastful or haughty; Love is not self-seeking or resentful. Love never fails. Love is uncaused and undeserved.
Love shows itself by how it takes pleasure in what is loved, and God enjoys and loves us as His own creation. John 3:16 states that God loved us so much that He gave His only begotten Son to die for us. And here is a wonderful thing about God’s love; when we become His children, nothing can separate us from that love. Paul states in Romans 8:38 and 39 (from the Amplified Version)
"For I am persuaded beyond doubt (am sure) that neither death nor life,
nor angels, nor principalities, nor things impending or threatening;
nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth,
nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us
from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
There is so much to learn about God’s Love; it is so vast and we can never understand it, any more than understanding God. Ephesians 2:4-5 gives a small view of how God expresses His love to us:
"But God—so rich is He is His mercy! Because of and in order to
satisfy the great and wonderful and intense love with which He loved us,
Even when we were dead (slain) by (our own) shortcomings and trespasses,
He made us alive together in fellowship and in union with Christ;
[He gave us the very life of Christ Himself, the same new life
with which He quickened Him, for] it is by grace
(His favor and mercy which you did not deserve) that you are saved
(delivered from judgment and made partakers of Christ’s salvation).
The love of God is measureless, and we cannot be separated from it! Praise God!
- From The Holy Bible (Amplified Version)
- The Knowledge of the Holy
- by A.W.Tozer
- The heart of CC
