Describing God’s Love For Us…

How would you describe God’s love?  If you had to come up with three or four words to describe God’s love, what would they be?  Maybe words such as: unconditional, eternal, compassionate, deep and wide and high and long.

Those are true and wonderful descriptions, but in his book Conformed to His Image, Dr. Kenneth Boa described God’s love as uncaused.

God’s love for you and for me is uncaused.

Please take a moment to think of God’s love described that way.

We didn’t do anything to cause God’s love for us.  God loved us while we were still sinners (Romans 5:8).  We can’t do anything to cause God to stop loving us.  Romans 8:35-39 confirms this:

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?  As it is written: “For your sake we face death all day long we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”  No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.  For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,[k] neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:35-39

Yes, we should pursue, obey and love God and we should love our neighbors.

For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not burdensome.  I John 5:3

Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’  This is the first and greatest commandment.  And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ Matthew 22:37-39

But we should do those things knowing God’s love for us is uncaused, not because we think those things cause God to love us.

God’s love for you and for me is uncaused.  

Please take a moment or two and meditate on what it means for you and to you that God’s love for you is uncaused.