The Love of God

Have you ever thought of how much God loves you? Just imagine how much you love someone close to you--it may be a spouse, child, parent, or sibling. But God, He can love us more in one moment than they can ever love us in a lifetime. His capacity for love is much larger than ours. Romans 8:37-39 says,

"No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord."

Did you catch that? Nothing can separate us from the love of God. Sometimes, our love for others fail. Sometimes, others' love for us fail. But His, it never fails.

When I was in Guatemala, someone made this concept real and evident to me. He quoted lyrics from an old hymn (which I had never heard) called "The Love of God."

The love of God is greater far
Than tongue or pen can ever tell;
It goes beyond the highest star,
And reaches to the lowest hell;
The guilty pair, bowed down with care,
God gave His Son to win;
His erring child He reconciled,
And pardoned from his sin.

O love of God, how rich and pure!
How measureless and strong!
It shall forevermore endure
The saints’ and angels’ song.

When years of time shall pass away,
And earthly thrones and kingdoms fall,
When men, who here refuse to pray,
On rocks and hills and mountains call,
God’s love so sure, shall still endure,
All measureless and strong;
Redeeming grace to Adam’s race—
The saints’ and angels’ song.

Could we with ink the ocean fill,
And were the skies of parchment made,
Were every stalk on earth a quill,
And every man a scribe by trade,
To write the love of God above,
Would drain the ocean dry.
Nor could the scroll contain the whole,
Though stretched from sky to sky.

These words are so powerful. The last verse gives you a picture of the vastness of God's love for us. We don't have to earn His love--He just loves us. In fact, 1 John 4:8 even says that God is love. So when you feel unloved, rest in the fact that God's love is truly all you need.