Love of God

Isaiah 54:10: "Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love (emphasis mine) for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed, says the Lord, who has compassion on you" (NIV).

It is very easy to say that we know that God is love and that He loves this world.  But we must also understand that the love of God is the foundational truth of our relationship with Jesus Christ.  The "unfailing love" of God provides us the opportunity to exchange our sins for the righteousness of Christ.  We must learn to allow the love of God to permeate every aspect of our life and as a sponge we need to soak up and soak in the wonderful presence of His love.  I feel that many people fail in their journey with God because they fail to embrace this foundational principle.  We become overwhelmed through the process of trying to earn the favor and love of God.  The love of God can not be earned it can only be accepted and appreciated.  The NASB translation of Psalm 46:10a gives us this thought, "Stop striving and know that I am God..."  We must stop striving to earn the love of God through our actions and activities; we need to accept the idea that God loves us and remember that according to Romans 8 nothing can separate us from the love of God.  Accepting the fact that God truly loves us is such a liberating principle and that principle encourages us to focus on building our relationship with Jesus Christ.

We were created to know God.  We were created to love God.  We were created to enjoy our relationship with God.  We were created to center our life around the relationship that God has offered to us through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.  Don't you think that it is time that we started "enjoying" our relationship with God?  Walking in the knowledge that God is love and that His love is unchangeable and unmovable allows us to focus on the greatness of God and all that He has offered to us through Jesus Christ.
Each of us need to take some time and reflect on the faithfulness of God and realize that the promises and covenants of God are true.  The love and care of man can be fickle and change at any moment but we can be confident that the love of God is founded on the principle of God's inability to lie or change.  God loved us as we were brought into this world through the process of birth and God will love us as we travel through the process of life.  Give God some "serious praise" for the love that He extends to you on a daily basis.  Your life will be enriched and encouraged as you place this principle of love deep in your heart.