Undiminishable

As I was studying today, I was encouraged by the reality that God's love is undiminishable. It can't be diminished or changed in any way. That idea is completely different from human love. Human love at one point or another will let us down. We eventually will let down those closest to us in one facet or another. I think sometimes, because of our experiences with human conditional love, we tend to automatically think that God relates to us like everyone else does.

The truth is that God loves you as much on your worst day as he does on your best day. There's nothing you can do that will ever change or diminish the way God feels about you. His love in not conditioned on our worthiness or loveability (thank God). If that were the case, none of us could ever dream of earning up to his love.

It's precisely our unworthiness that makes God's love so powerful and unique! If we got what we really deserve... ... ... (maybe we shouldn't go there!)

It's definitely not cheap grace either. It doesn't mean that God's cool with us living in sin. But, if we are true believers, even our mistakes don't change the way God feels about us. In the conviction process, his arms are open wide so that when we fall or mess up we can repent and run to him rather than from him. Even in the moments of our greatest weakness his love factor never changes. "If we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness" (1 Jn. 1.9).

If we live in that reality, he will never condemn us or reject us. It's actually his love that invites us to leave our sin and live pleasing to him (Rom. 2.4). Satan would have us believe that God's love for us changes based on our performance. That way he could get us to run from God rather than to him when we mess up.

Thank God that when we are his, the death we deserve is completely obliterated by his unconditional, boundless, and undiminishable love!

How should we respond?