Remember, throughout this year we will see many examples of how we are to love the Lord. But this week, we’re setting aside time to think about some of the reasons why we owe the Lord such a debt of love. Over the last three days, I’ve suggested that we ought to love God because He created us in love, because of His profound beauty, and because of His constant presence with us. Today, let’s think about another reason to love Him – and it’s possibly the greatest reason of all. We should love Him in response to His perfect love for us.
Prayer before Reading:
Before you read today’s reading, join the Psalmist in this simple prayer:
May the truth of Your Word be more precious to me than thousands of pieces of silver and gold.. (based on Psalm 119:72)
Daily Reading:
3 The Lord appeared to us in the past, saying: ‘I have loved you with an everlasting love …
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.
The Bible declares in no uncertain terms that God’s love towards us is eternal in duration. It has no beginning and no end.
There has never been a time that He has not loved us. The silly saying goes that the only two certainties of human life are death and taxes. However, far more certain is the love of God towards you. Long before you ever dreamed of paying taxes, God loved you! Every moment of your life, God has loved you. In fact, even before you were conceived in your mother’s womb, God loved you! Ephesians 1:4 even seems to imply that before the foundations of the world were laid, God loved you. Truly, God has loved you with an everlasting love.
What’s more, God’s love towards you has no end either. Being an everlasting love implies not only that it has no beginning but that it has no ending! God will never stop loving you! And that’s why, even when we had fallen into the depths of sin and had turned our backs on God completely, God made a way, through Jesus, to bring us home to Himself. More about that tomorrow, but for now it is enough to reflect on the fact that God loves us so infinitely that He was not willing to accept as final our decision to reject Him. Instead, He opened the door for our return. God would pay even the highest price to ensure that we could spend eternity with Him, in the arms of His love.
Why should we love God? Because God first loved us, has loved us eternally, and still loves us today!
Contemplation:
Please take time now (and throughout the day) to ponder the great and glorious truth:
- I am loved by God
- God’s love for me has no beginning,
- God’s love for me has no ending,
- God’s love for me invites me to love Him in return.
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