March 29th, 2024
by Robert Presson
by Robert Presson
“God is love” — 1 John 4:8, NKJV
God is love. It's a simple statement, but it holds deep theological truths that we often overlook. Love is not just something that God does. It is who He is. Love is one of the attributes of God, inseparable from His being. To understand the depth and breadth of God's love, we need to grasp the infinite nature of God Himself.
A.W. Tozer wrote in his book “The Knowledge of the Holy,” that "God's love is like Himself—self-existent, eternal, infinite, and incomprehensible." We cannot fully understand or fathom the love of God because it's beyond our finite human understanding. God's love is not like our human love that is often conditional, temporary, and imperfect. God's love is perfect, pure, and eternal. Tozer goes on to say that “the love of God is one of the great realities of the universe, a pillar upon which the hope of the world rests. But it is a personal, intimate thing too. God does not love populations, He loves people.”
This highlights the personal nature of God's love for each one of us. God's love is not just a general love for all humanity, but it's a specific, individual love for each and every person. The imagery of God's love being like a river is also used by Tozer to illustrate the endless nature of God's love. Just as a river keeps flowing and never runs dry, God's love never fails and never runs out. We can never exhaust the depths of God's love, no matter how much we receive or give it away to others. It's a love that keeps pouring out endlessly, without any limitations or conditions.
When we grasp the truth that God is love, it transforms our entire perspective of who God is and how He interacts with us. We can be confident in His love, knowing that it's not based on anything we do or don't do, but it's a fundamental aspect of His being. As we experience God's love in deeper and richer ways, it overflows from us to love others. And it is not because we learned to reform our actions and cut other people a break. It is because the very nature of God infuses us. God is love and we become like who He is.
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This blog is taken from Robert Presson's book, "30 Days of Faith, Hope and Love." To order this book, go to cityrevival.tv/fhl
God is love. It's a simple statement, but it holds deep theological truths that we often overlook. Love is not just something that God does. It is who He is. Love is one of the attributes of God, inseparable from His being. To understand the depth and breadth of God's love, we need to grasp the infinite nature of God Himself.
A.W. Tozer wrote in his book “The Knowledge of the Holy,” that "God's love is like Himself—self-existent, eternal, infinite, and incomprehensible." We cannot fully understand or fathom the love of God because it's beyond our finite human understanding. God's love is not like our human love that is often conditional, temporary, and imperfect. God's love is perfect, pure, and eternal. Tozer goes on to say that “the love of God is one of the great realities of the universe, a pillar upon which the hope of the world rests. But it is a personal, intimate thing too. God does not love populations, He loves people.”
This highlights the personal nature of God's love for each one of us. God's love is not just a general love for all humanity, but it's a specific, individual love for each and every person. The imagery of God's love being like a river is also used by Tozer to illustrate the endless nature of God's love. Just as a river keeps flowing and never runs dry, God's love never fails and never runs out. We can never exhaust the depths of God's love, no matter how much we receive or give it away to others. It's a love that keeps pouring out endlessly, without any limitations or conditions.
When we grasp the truth that God is love, it transforms our entire perspective of who God is and how He interacts with us. We can be confident in His love, knowing that it's not based on anything we do or don't do, but it's a fundamental aspect of His being. As we experience God's love in deeper and richer ways, it overflows from us to love others. And it is not because we learned to reform our actions and cut other people a break. It is because the very nature of God infuses us. God is love and we become like who He is.
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This blog is taken from Robert Presson's book, "30 Days of Faith, Hope and Love." To order this book, go to cityrevival.tv/fhl
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