God
holds nothing back in His love for us.
His “agape” love is passionate, self-sacrificing; fully committed and
all consuming, a deep, constant, unchanging love for us. Webster’s unabridged dictionary defines
“passion” as a “powerful, compelling and extravagant emotion”. This is why Christ’s willful sacrifice of
Himself on the cross is called “The Passion of Christ”. This is more than what mere mortals call
love... this is way over the top supernatural love! Another example of the passionate love of God
is seen in the parable miss-titled the “Prodigal Son.” Webster’s defines “Prodigal”
as “lavishly abundant, profuse, and wastefully extravagant”. Now, who is the real prodigal in this
story? Not the boy although he is
wasteful with his resources. But the
father is extravagantly “wasteful” with His love. The father abundantly and profusely lavishes His
love on the undeserving son. The Father
(God) is the prodigal... Our Daddy!
Passionate love is not simply God’s choice... passionate love is His
nature... God is Love. He loves us with
a perfect love... an everlasting love... a relentless love... an unquenchable,
insatiable, immeasurable, inexhaustible, irrepressible, irrational, unshakeable,
inescapable, unmovable, constantly constant unchanging
love. There is nothing we can do
to make Him love us more, and nothing we can do to make Him love us less. God loves us 100%... all the way... all the
time! He doesn’t love us for what we do
- thank God - He loves us for who we are... His children.
ALL THE WAY... ALL THE TIME...
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