Loved with an Unfailing Love

 

 We love Him because He first loved us. 1John4:19

God loves you with an unfailing love.

England saw a glimpse of such love in 1878. The second daughter of Queen Victoria was Princess Alice. Her young son was infected with a horrible affliction known as black diphtheria. Doctors quarantined the boy and told the mother to stay away. 

But she couldn't. One day she overheard him whisper to the nurse, "Why doesn't my mother kiss me anymore?" The words melted her heart. She ran to her son and smothered him with kisses. Within a few days, she was buried. In the same way God sent Jesus to  die for me and you.

What would drive a mother to do such a thing? What would lead God to do something greater? Love. Trace the greatest action of God to the greatest attribute of God- His love...

And, oh, what a love this is. It is "too wonderful to be measured" (Ephesians 3:19). But though we cannot measure it, we can trust it. Some of you are so hungry for love. Those who should have loved you didn't. Those who could have loved you wouldn't. You were left at the hospital. Left at the altar. Left with an empty bed. Left with a broken heart. Left with your question, "Does anybody love me?"

Please listen to heaven's answer. As you ponder him on the cross, hear God assure,

"I DO" 

Father God, we bring to You our broken hearts and broken dreams. But You reach out to us with the greatest love of all and assure us You will love us forever. Your kind love heals our hurts. Your sacrificial love forgives our sins. May we open our hearts to receive Your great love, amen. 

May the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the patience of Christ.  2Tessalonians3:5

He will rejoice over you with gladness, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing. Zephaniah3:17

And we know and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in Him. 1John4:16

Max Lucado - Live Loved