Today's message at church was a good one. Sam, the teaching pastor that spoke today, talked about God's love. He gave 6 "love statements" about God's love and they really stuck with me. Except for the first one, I wasn't paying attention and was reading the bulletin. But, I paid attention for the other 5. Here they are:
1. God's love is undending. This means unconditional, never failing, won't leave you or forsake you kind of love. Man's love is conditional. It can fail, cease to be, go away, leave you lonely. God's love is the forever kind of love that we cannot begin to comprehend.
2. God's love seeks out the best for us. God wants us to be IN his love. To be in his love means to be in his will. He will bless whatever is in his will. When we are outside of his will, we are outside that "umbrella" of love, and that stability is lost. Unstable is not a good place to be.
3. God's love puts up protective boundaries. God doesn't want us to be outside his umbrella of love and his will, where temptation and instability dwell. When we stray, we experience these boundaries - often called "consequences." Sam used the example of his son who used to be fascinated with electrical outlets. He stuck some scissors in an outlet one time and experienced some "consequences." After that experience, any time he came near another outlet in curiousity, he came in to contact with his father's "loving boundary."
4. God's love is sacrificial. The point here is obvious. God sent his son out of this unending, uncomprehendable love that he has for us, to save us from the sin that would have consumed us. All so that we could spend eternity with him, he gave of himself sacrificially.
5. God's love is not performance based. He doesn't care if you have a high paying job, nice car, great bag, cool shoes, big house, the most popular, good grades or a rocking body. He loves you for you, period. He loves you - the failure, the skinny boy, the awkward girl, the guy who doesn't keep up his lawn, the single mom, the CEO, the cashier, the janitor - just because you are you.
Cool, huh?
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