The Unfailing Love of God

No one loves you like God. He created you. He knows everything about you. And yet He loves you anyway. We have rebelled against Him and rejected His ways, yet His response to this is to save us through Christ. The amazing love of God is the theme of the Bible.

The love of God was shown in Christ Jesus. The fact that Christ came into the world to live and die for us proves the love of God. “For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. But God proves His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:6-8).

Notice that God does not say He proves His love to us by making everything go our way. A lot of preachers preach that God intends for you to have everything your heart has ever desired, and that His goal for everyone is health and wealth and prosperity. Jesus, by contrast, said that we are to take up our cross and follow Him (Matthew 16:24-26). By following Him, we will suffer. This world is not our home and we are not to put our stock in the things of this world or focus on the things of this world. But many believers have done that very thing.

Jesus proves His love for us. God proves His love for us by the death of Jesus. If it takes more than Christ’s death to prove that God loves you, then we have a problem. For the only perfect man who ever lived came to die for us, to prove the unfailing love of God.

Know that you are loved by God and know it because Jesus died for you. He died for me. If you were the only one who ever lived who needed to be saved, Jesus would have died for you. Salvation is personal. And the death of Christ is personally for you.

        Dewayne Dunaway