One of the greatest blessings Jesus obtained for us, is the love of God. Jesus came into the world and gave His life that we would know and enjoy God’s love.
The love of God is unfailing, so measureless, so perfectly suited to the needs of our souls, that it is all we need to live a full and satisfied life. it is the only thing in this world that is able to make us truly happy.
Moses prayed in Psalm 90:14,
“Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.”
Yes, prayer was made in the middle of very dismal circumstances in the wilderness. Moses felt that life was short and filled with suffering, but he knew that God was able to fill our hearts, able to satisfy us, and causes to sing for joy and be happy all of our days with His love.
There’s a quote by A.W. Tower in the book “The Pursuit of God, that reads,
“God is so vastly wonderful, so utterly and completely delightful that He can, without anything other than Himself, meet and overflow the deepest demands of our total nature, mysterious, and deep as that nature is.”
Once we come to God with our deficiencies, and adequacies, and emergencies, our work pressures, marriage difficulties, rebellious, or straying children, and emotional problems and every ever need we have experienced in our lives. We learn that God knows all our needs within us and all there depths, and meets each one with a love that is beyond measure.
When we read the Bible, we see the way people found joy and satisfaction in God‘s love. We might ask ourselves do we really understand the love of God? I have asked myself when I’m experiencing problems in my life because Ive forgotten not the love of God
Maybe the most important thing of all is experiencing the love of God in such a way that I love Him. John 4:19 says “we love Him because He first loved us.”
God gives us free will, but how many of us can say his love has touched us in a way that we want to love Him, please Him, obey Him, and radiate His love to others?
The last thing that Jesus prayed for His disciples, was for them to know an experience God’s love. John 17:26 says,
“I have made known to them, and will make it known, that the love with which you have loved Me may be in them, and I in them.”
The Father love us with the same love that He has for Jesus. Jesus, prayed that we would know that. Jesus, prayed that the Father’s love would be in us.
Paul said in Ephesians 3:17-19,
“He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, that you may be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inward man, that Messiah may dwell in your hearts through faith, to the end that you being rooted and grounded in love, may be strengthened to comprehend with all the holy ones what is the width and length, and height and depth, to know the Messiah’s love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled will all the fullness of God.”
The highest human experience is to be filled with God and His love.
God’s love has a curing power in our hearts that nothing else does. His love, gives us such a deep sense that we are held, and loved and cared for, that creates security and stability. We lose our need to control others, and to control circumstances in order that we may feel happy and safe. We know we are safe and the love of God.
If the love of God does not flourish in our hearts, then our insecurities and fears flourish. We won’t feel safe around other people or safe in the turmoil of life. Our wounds remain unhealed and we’re offenses, we become defensive and critical, and we just don’t care about others.
Without the love of God, we are easily defeated in life. But with His love, we can overcome anything.
Romans 8:35-37 says,
“Who shall separate us from the love of Messiah? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Even as it is written, for our sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter. No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.”
The love of God is big enough in our lives, no matter what happens to us. Even if all hell breaks out against us.
God loves to take us all the way to maturity, holiness, and spiritual health. Jesus showed love to the woman caught in adultery by protecting her from vicious cations of the Pharisees, but He also showed loved to her by saying, “ neither do I condemn you. Now go and send no more.” God loves us just the way we are, but He loves us too much to leave us just as we are.
God’s love does not affirm who we are, in our sin and brokenness. It is compelling and transforming. it changes us, conforms us to the likeness of Jesus. His love calls us out of darkness and into the light.
God love enables us to love the imperfect people around us. Dick Staub said “Only those who experience God‘s loving presence, and the deepest places of their souls can be a loving presence in the soul of others.“
The Bible is clear that there is a completely unique realm of love that the Father has for those who follow Jesus. Understanding this love and experiencing this love can be much more than it is.
There are three ways to know the love of God, and grow in it,
- By the Word of God -the Bible
- By the Holy Spirit
- By the cross
From Pity to Praise 