Yesterday was Valentine’s Day. As you know, it’s a special celebration of love- typically romantic & sentimental love declared with flowers ( & maybe chocolate!)
Our human capacity to love comes from God whose essence is love. He poured His perfect love into our ruined lives for, God is love!
John declares:
‘We love because he first loved us.’
(1 John 4:19 NIV)
We may feel unlovely at times but we are never unloved. That’s a truth worth acknowledging.
God’s love is boundless. And Paul prayed that we could somehow grasp the dimensions of this limitless love:
‘And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ’
(Ephesians 3:17-18 NIV)
God’s love is beneath us, holding us at our lowest moments. It is deeper than our sin & shame. It stretches higher than our dreams & aspirations. God’s love is wider than we can imagine, encompassing the whole world. It is longer than life itself flowing from everlasting to everlasting.
And God’s love doesn’t change.
‘Though our feelings come & go, God’s love for us does not’
(CS Lewis)
What can be our response to such amazing love? Isaac Watts wrote:
‘Love so amazing, so divine,
Demands my soul, my life, my all’
Blessings,
Ruth x
Blessed! 