The Extraordinary & Unstoppable Love of God

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 | Lent Meditations

You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. -Romans 5:7-8

We love because he first loved us. -1 John 4:19

…God’s kindness leads you toward repentance -Romans 2:4

How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! -1 John 3:1

…I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. -Ephesians 3:17-19

For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. -Romans 8:38-39

There is no possible way to overstate the vastness of God’s love for us. We don’t have words to describe it, minds capable of grasping it, or any experience comparable to it. God’s love cannot be out-hated, out-sinned, or out-eviled. The love of God is so utterly unstoppable that after death, hell, and Satan himself threw the worst they had at it, Love rose victorious on the other side. You cannot escape it, ignore it, or thwart it.

God does not love us abstractly, as a group. He loves you, personally, where you sit, in this very moment. He knew you and hand-selected you before the bones of the world were spoken into existence (Eph 1:4), he knit you together before you were born (Ps 139), and he has engraved you on the palms of His hands (Is 49:16).

What a place of confidence, peace, and power! This is our place in the world—we are beloved by God.

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