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When people ask me “Why does God allow bad things happening to good people?
or “Why God allows children dying of hunger?”
I usually reply with another question “Can you describe the God you believe in?”
Most of them answer saying, “God is love!”
An incomplete answer, but right answer.
He is more than that, but if there is a word that deeply describes Him is that one.
Today, I will talk about the God’s love.
God’s character is love
Some may call it God’s nature, but that word applies to creatures; to describe characteristics given by nature.
God is above nature.
It is not nature that gives God his characteristics.
But God has a character, a set of characteristics that distinguish Him.
One them of them is love:
Since God is a Trinity, the three persons of the Trinity are described as loving
The Father is love
The Son is love
“There is no greater love..” and “But God demonstrate His love… Christ died for us”
The Spirit is love
Just as the love of the Father and the Son are mentioned in the Scriptures, also the Spirit’s love:
And it is thru Him that God’s love has been pour on us and dwells in us () .
How is God’s love?
It is eternal
Isaiah described well God’s eternal love for His people:
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Isa 49Did you ever write the name of someone you loved on your hand?
Did you ever write the name of someone you loved on your hand?
It is a sworn love
Like a husband promising everlasting love to the bride, God, who cannot lie, has promised to love us.
It is exuberant love
His love is love given “hands-full”.
Abundant love in mercy, forgiveness, and patience.
God does not skimp on loving us!
He gives it all, for He loves us.
When we forget what the Lord has done for us, we become stubborn and disobedient like the people of Israel
“See how great love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called children of God”
It is a holy and just love
People may think they can escape God’s punishment because He is love.
Those people forget that His love is holy (He does not put up with sin) and just (He will give the unrepentant sinners what they deserve).
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God as a husband:
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God’s love is shown in actions
Giving His Son is a unique act of love
That is the maximum expression of love: ;
You may give your money, time, and energy, to a loved one, but you would not give your son.
God did it!
For you and for me.
Loving the undeserving
Israel is a clear example of that.
God could have chosen a larger or more powerful nation, or a more obedient people, but He loved Israel.
Remember who felt loved by Jesus: prostitutes, tax collectors, beggars, lepers, etc.
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Remember who felt loved by Jesus: prostitutes, tax collectors, beggars, lepers, etc.
Who were we to be loved by the Lord?
Nobody!
But He loved us, even when we were in sin: ;
Protecting and caring for His own.
He is the all-providing, all-caring, all-protecting Father to us, His children.
Even when we do not respond properly to His love.
A gentleman who was a professed Christian was taken seriously ill.
He became troubled about the little love he felt in his heart for God, and spoke of his experience to a friend.
This is how the friend answered him.
“When I go home from here, I expect to take my baby on my knee, look into her sweet eyes, listen to her charming prattle, and tired as I am, her presence will rest me; for I love that child with unutterable tenderness.
But she loves me little.
If my heart were breaking it would not disturb her sleep.
If my body were racked with pain, it would not interrupt her play.
If I were dead, she would forget me in a few days.
Besides this, she had never brought me a penny, but was a constant expense to me.
I am not rich, but there is not money enough in the world to buy my baby.
How is it?
Does she love me, or do I love her? Do I withhold my love until I know she loves me?
Am I waiting for her to do something worthy of my love before extending it?”
This practical illustration of the love of God for His children caused the tears to roll down the sick man’s face.
“Oh, I see,” he exclaimed, “it is not my love to God, but God’s love for me, that I should be thinking of.
And I do love Him now as I never loved Him before.”
Israel
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God’s love for individuals
“Jedidiah” means “loved by the Lord”.
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Ezra; Solomon
God’s love transforms human love
Human love must respond to God’s love
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Human love must be modelled on God’s love
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