Pillar 3 - Walking in Obedience
Know God’s Love
The Bible reveals God’s primary character as love.
God's love is unlike every human love you have ever experienced — it is not contingent on your performance, not exhausted by your failures, and not diminished by your worst days.
This is the truth in its simplest form — the same words printed inside every God’s Love Truth Card:
Do You Not Know ?
There Is No Fear In Love …
That Perfect Love Drives Out Fear
Have Your Not Heard ?
It Always Protects, Always Trusts,
Always Hopes, Always Perseveres
“And So We Know And Rely On The Love God Has For Us. God Is Love. Whoever Lives In Love Lives In God, And God In Them.” 1 John 4:16
“A New Command I Give You: Love One Another. As I Have Loved You, So You Must Love One Another.” John 13:34
The Choice is Yours !!
““ But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. ” Romans 5:8
Do You Know God’s Love?
Do not move past this too quickly.
If this is true, which it is, it changes everything about your life.
What Scripture Says About God’s Love
God’s love is not only the foundation of your salvation and your sustaining hope through hardships, but it is also the very quality of God into which you are being transformed. Understanding that God’s love initiated the relationship while you were still a sinner eliminates any performance or merit-based criteria. Romans 5:8 declares “But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” Fear and anxiety are cast out by His perfect, divine love.
This assurance is strengthened further when you realize you have been adopted into His family as well. “See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are.” John 3:1 Knowing you can call out “Abba – Father” to the Creator of the universe transforms obedience from a begrudging burden into a joyful delight.
Being filled with His boundless love, you also find hardship and suffering redefined. They are no longer a punitive event or time, but rather a purposeful season of growth and deepened relationship. As you yield to being molded into the image of Christ, your love for others takes on the same sacrificial, unconditional and persistent nature as that which you have received.
Moving you beyond self-centeredness into selfless service and compassion, God’s love empowers you to forgive those who hurt you, even when it is costly or difficult. Living in the presence of that love compels you extend His grace to the marginalized, breaking down barriers of sin and brokenness.
Indeed, God’s love is the ultimate purpose of the entire faith journey – to receive it, to grow in it, to be sustained by it, to share it, to declare it and to be transformed into it. How well do you know God’s love?
What Others Ask
Q. How do I know God loves me personally, not just humanity in general?
A. Galatians 2:20 makes it personal: Christ 'loved me and gave himself for me.' Jesus said not a sparrow falls without the Father's knowledge, and that you are worth more than many sparrows (Matthew 10:29-31). The cross was not an abstract act for humanity — it was the price God was willing to pay specifically for you.
Q. What does the Bible say about the depth and breadth of God's love?
A. Ephesians 3:17-19 describes God's love as having width, length, height, and depth that surpasses knowledge — a love so vast it requires spiritual illumination to begin to grasp. Psalm 103:11 compares it to the distance between heaven and earth. It is not a moderate affection. It is an infinite, pursuing, sacrificial love expressed most fully in the cross.
Q. What is agape love, and how is it different from other kinds of love?
A. Agape is the Greek word Scripture uses for God's love — unconditional, sacrificial, and not dependent on the worthiness of its object. Unlike eros (romantic love) or philia (friendship love), agape does not require a return. Romans 5:8 captures it: 'While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
Q. Can anything separate me from God's love?
A. Romans 8:38-39 answers definitively: '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.' The answer is no — nothing can.
Q. How do I experience God's love when I feel unlovable?
A. Begin with the fact, not the feeling. God's love is not contingent on your feeling of being loved — it is declared and demonstrated at the cross. Spend time in Romans 8, Psalm 103, or John 15. Ask the Holy Spirit to make real what is objectively true. And seek community with believers who can reflect God's love to you concretely — often God's love is felt most through His people.
Digging Deeper Introduction
The most profound statement about God’s love is found in 1 John 4:8, 16: “God is love.” God not only loves, but is love in the deepest essence of His being. His love is unconditional, sacrificial, enduring, patient yet pursuing, transforming and beyond full comprehension. The Bible is the story of God’s love and His desire for you to experience that love without the corruption of sin and brokenness. He loves because that is fundamentally who He is.
The New Testament uses the Greek word agape to describe God’s love in order to distinguish it from romantic love (eros) or the brotherly love (phileo) of friendship. God’s love is not contingent on your wanting it, deserving it, or being entitled to it. He loves the unlovable, the unlovely and the unloving without limit or boundaries. True to His nature, God’s love is both a mystery and a marvel.
The Apostle Paul describes God’s love in Romans 5:8: “But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” Scripture’s most famous declaration of God’s love is found in John 3:16: “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” Even while you were His enemy, rebelling against His authority, indifferent or hostile toward Him, His love moved toward you in your worst condition.
God’s love is continual—will you trust in it?
Someone’s eternity depends on it!
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