5 Ways God’s Love is Like No Other

This is the “Love Month.” That could be bad or good depending on your situation. I hope it’s good for you, but even if it isn’t, I have good news for you. I decided to do a Valentine’s Day countdown with my kids this year, and truthfully, I didn’t keep up with it before Valentine’s Day. So I’m just using it throughout the whole month. It’s a great little countdown that I downloaded from Kim at NotConsumed.com. She has all kinds of great ideas for different holidays, so be sure to check out her site. Her countdown highlights the many aspects of God’s love for us. What a wonderful way to spend the month of February-just reflecting on His love! So this post is based on my reflections on a few of the aspects of God’s love. I hope it will be a blessing to you as we finish out the month of February this week.

God’s love is patient.

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. 2 Peter 3:9

~He’s patient with our shortcomings and spiritual journey, but this verse speaks of His patience in regard to His return.  For us, this world seems to be getting pretty rough in many ways, but God desires that all who will be saved will have the opportunity to do so.  I know I’m anxious for His return, but His timing is best and we can trust that and be thankful for His patience with lost souls…and be challenged to be busy telling others about Him.

God’s love is unchanging.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. James 1:17

~This is such a comforting truth in a world that is constantly changing.  God’s love for me and you will never change, regardless of anything that goes on around us or even anything that we do.  We can always count on His love and know that He is there, even when it may not seem like it.  God never changes, and His Word never changes.  

God’s love is faithful.

Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations; Deuteronomy 7:9

~God is faithful to us even when we’re unfaithful to Him.  I’ve had times in my own life where I have questioned His faithfulness because my circumstances were so bleak that things just didn’t make sense, and I didn’t know where He was.  This is where our faithfulness and trust in Him and His Word is tested.  It’s not easy.  Life can be just plain hard and painful sometimes.  But if we don’t have God, we have nothing.  My dad quoted someone else once who said “If you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on!”  Sometimes life feels like that…like we’re hanging on for dear life.  But God is still faithful, whether we feel like it or not.  The “knot” we have to hang on to is His Word and the promises and truths we find in it.  I’m sure Joseph in the Bible felt pretty abandoned being sold into slavery and sitting in that prison for such a long time.  He didn’t know how the story would end like we do.  But he remained faithful, and God did bring about a pretty amazing ending to his story.  God is always faithful to His Word, and we can trust in that.

God’s love is everlasting.

The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee. Jeremiah 31:3

~I have this verse on my wall in my bedroom, and I love having it there.  I’ve looked at it often and it’s been such an encouragement at different times.  God’s love will last forever.  All of these aspects of His love we’ve looked at will always be true, both now and for eternity.

God’s love is inseparable.

Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:39

~Nothing will separate us from God’s love.  Did you notice what it said there?  “Nor things present, nor things to come”. This helps us face the future because we know that no matter what comes, nothing separates us from God’s love.  Whatever happens now and whatever happens in the future, God will still be there with us, loving us and giving us the strength to face it.  When we worry about future things, we’re trying to imagine handling them without God’s grace.  But God isn’t giving me grace for that thing right now because I’m not facing it right now.  If whatever it is does actually come, God’s grace will be there for us in that moment, guiding us and leading us and loving us.  Nothing can ever separate us from His love.  This is truth we can rest in today and every day.