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Daily Devotionals
Grace for Today
1 John 3:1
‘What manner of love’
Read John 15:1-17
I cannot begin to explain the love of God. But I do want to share with you four facts about the love of God revealed in Holy Scripture.
1. The love of God is without beginning. There never was a time when God began to love his people. Like God himself, his love for us is eternal. He says, ‘Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love’ (Jeremiah 31:3). In eternal love he chose his own elect in Christ, before the world was. In love, he predestinated us unto the adoption of children in Christ. Those whom God loves today he has loved always and will love always.
2. The love of God is without measure. It would be far easier to measure the waters of the ocean in a tea cup than to measure the love of God in our puny brains and hearts. Paul tells us that the height and depth and length and breadth of the love of God in Christ pass all knowledge.
3. The love of God is without change. God’s love is perfect. It never changes. He does not love today and hate tomorrow. Our love to him varies from day to day, but his love towards us knows no variation. If you are truly one of his own, there is nothing you can do that will cause him to cease loving you, or even to love you less. This immutable, unchanging love is a love such as we might expect from our God.
4. The love of God is without end. He will never cease to cherish his own. Children of God, take comfort in this word of grace today: ‘God is love.’ The love of God for us is without beginning, without measure, without change and without end.
