Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Ed Lawrence via Facebook
The Revelation !
To speak of God’s unconditional love is to utter a
wonderful fact about God’s nature. He loves because He
chooses to love and for no other reason. His love is not
dependent upon finding something in us that merits His love.
His love is without conditions — it is unconditional. This kind
of love is expressed in the Lord’s words to Israel: 7 “The LORD
did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were
more in number than any other people, for you were the least
of all peoples; 8 but becausethe LORD loves you . . .” (Deut. 7:7-
8). In other words, God loves because He chooses to love, not
because of a reason found outside of Himself.
God’s unconditional love is revealed throughout the Old
and New Testaments, but in no other place in the Bible do we
see the unconditional nature of His love as in the book of
Hosea. We see God’s unconditional love coming to the least likely object of love —an object that does not merit or deserve love by any human standard. As we look into the book of Hosea, may the Lord by His Spirit give us a fresh revelation of God’s unconditional
love!
Consider how the revelation of God’s unconditional
love affects us. First, it affects our relationship to the Lord.
Knowing His love, even understanding what God’s unconditional love is, will have a tremendous effect on how we relate
to the Lord day by day. Second, God’s unconditional love also
affects how I relate to myself. It affects how I feel about
myself and how I understand myself in light of my relationship with God. Third, understanding and enjoying this realm
of God’s unconditional love greatly affects our relationships
with one another in the Body of Christ. Fourth, it affects our
relationship to humanity — to fallen man, to those who are
lost. And fifth, God’s unconditional love affects our relationship to His eternal purpose. God’s love toward us always has
a goal in view, and that goal is absolutely related to His
purpose being worked out in this universe. So we see that
God’s unconditional love affects all these areas — my relationship with God, with myself, with the saints, with every
human being, and with God’s eternal purpose.
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