1 John 4:19 (King James Version)
19We love him, because he first loved us.
The very motive of God, the very purpose of God, the exact substance and make up of God is LOVE. Everything he has and everything he is contains love, because that is what he is!
1 John 4:16 (King James Version) 16And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
This is WHO HE IS! God is Love
This is incredible! It doesn’t say anywhere in the bible that God is POWER, God is FAITH, or God is HOPE! No God is Love!!!! This is the very motivating quality and characteristic that determines every action of Almighty God. His Mercy! His Grace! His Salvation! His Way of doing things! His judgment! Everything is motivated by the overwhelming consistency and source of God’s Love. This is why He loves us soooooooooo much!
His Love is Equal! There are no favorites with Him. Everyone is His child and everyone will have fair treatment and access to the presence, truth and realities f God! Numerous Scriptures testify to the fact that God is not a respecter of persons. God loves you as much as any person that has ever lived! There is a tendency to think that God loves others more, but He loves you with an everlasting love! I like what one person wrote:
If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it.
If God had a wallet, your photo would be in it.
If God had a computer your picture would be the wallpaper.
God sends you flowers every spring and a sunrise every morning.
When you want to talk, He’ll listen.
He could live anywhere in the universe, and He chose your heart.
And that Christmas gift He sent you in Bethlehem? What a gift!
Face it friend, He’s crazy about you.
He loves you and cares for you in every way! He saw your end and realized the gravity and terrible consequence of your sin that he made sure he would protect you and save you through providing a way of salvation and safety for everyone of us to live life in. He saw our condition and temporary frailties and made a decision, followed up with it and prescribed an action of love for the cure!
John 3:16 (King James Version) 16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
John 3:16 (The Message) 16-18“This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. God didn’t go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again. Anyone who trusts in him is acquitted; anyone who refuses to trust him has long since been under the death sentence without knowing it. And why? Because of that person’s failure to believe in the one-of-a-kind Son of God when introduced to him.
The love that God shows is so much deeper than empty words and fake “I love Yous!” He provided the greatest sacrifice of love for us to be saved!
A MOST BEAUTIFUL MOTHER
One day as a little girl watched her mother working around the house she asked, “Why do you have a scar across your face the other mothers I know don’t?”
Her mother answered with this story. “One day when you were very little a neighbor called me over to her house to answer a phone call. I left you in your crib because I knew I would be back soon. The phone call lasted longer than I had thought and when I returned there was smoke pouring out of the house. A fire started because of a short circuit in the breaker panel. The people that were there tried to keep me from going inside but I broke away from them. I ran into your bedroom, wrapped a blanket around you and rushed for the outside. Just as I got to the door a blazing timber fell and struck me across the face. That’s how my face came to be this way.”
With that the little girl threw her arms around her mother, gave her a big hug and kissed her. “Mommy, you are the most beautiful mother in the whole world. I’m so glad you are my mother.”
Jesus Christ while on Calvary’s hill rushed into the fires of Hell and rescued you from Hell. How can you not say, “Jesus, you are the most beautiful of all. I’m so glad you are my Lord.”
He loved us while we were yet sinners! Enemies! Haters of God!
Romans 5:6-10 6For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. 7For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. 8But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. 9Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. 10For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
This love is not like the worlds love. This is an unselfish love. This is not a selfish, what’s in it for me and what can I get out of this love! This love is unconditional! There is nothing you can to do make God love you more! There is nothing you can do to make God love you less! His love is Unconditional, Impartial, Everlasting, Infinite, Perfect! This love is merciful, forgiving, never keeping any record of wrong towards us or any else! This love is supernatural and available for us to receive right now.
The motive of something or someone one is: something that causes a person to act in a certain way, do a certain thing, etc. It is the goal or object of a person’s actions. It is the answer to why the act is being acted on.
What motivates God to love us? So we could love Him back in truth and in action as well as in word!
1 John 4:19 (King James Version) 19We love him, because he first loved us.
How good does that make you feel? God is on our side! He loves us far greater than any person, any pet and any thing can!
He came to us where we are to save us! We are freely given this new life in Christ through faith in Him and the work that was completed on Calvary for us!
He never changes His mind towards us either! His love stabilizes and anchors His goodness and forgiveness towards every one of us.
“Though our feelings come and go, God’s love for us does not.”
C.S. Lewis
“God’s Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. God’s Love still stands when all else has fallen.”
It will never fail! When you truly allow His love to reach you! To breakthrough every or any wall around you and your life, you will be drastically changed for good! He is love and He always loves no matter how bad, disobedient and ungrateful we may be! His love is so faithful! It’s his love that allows the rain to fall on the just and the unjust! It’s his love that holds this world together! It’s His love that shapes us, forms us and impacts us!
“God loves us the way we are, but he loves us too much to leave us the way He found us”
The motive of love is you! You are why he loves! You are why he sent Christ to pay the ultimate price for all humanity!
Walk in this same love:
Ephesians 5:1-2 (King James Version) 1Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;
2And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
1 John 4:20-21 (The Message) 20-21If anyone boasts, “I love God,” and goes right on hating his brother or sister, thinking nothing of it, he is a liar. If he won’t love the person he can see, how can he love the God he can’t see? The command we have from Christ is blunt: Loving God includes loving people. You’ve got to love both.
Romans 5:5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
The same stuff that He has and He is, is now in us, in me, in you. It is natural to love them that love us, but it is supernatural to love them that hate us.
Start stirring it up through action! Use it. Be it. Live it! Make a difference! This love is the ultimate difference maker in anyone’s life it touches!
Be selfless! Sacrifice your will and your way to help add value, and give someone else the advantage whether it benefits you or not! Allow what God has changed you with to be the very thing that changes your friends, your family, your youth group, your church, your school, your town, your state, your country and your world! The motive of God’s love is YOU! The Motive of God’s love is them!
