Unconditional Love
February 17, 2011
So, I have been thinking a lot about the term unconditional love and what that truly means. “A love that is not based on who we are, where we have come from, or what we have done in our past. A love that stays constant even when we don’t want it, don’t deserve it, or don’t even know about it. It doesn’t waiver. It doesn’t change. It doesn’t end.”
The above explanation was taken from a devotional lesson for teenagers about God’s unconditional love for us. This past week specifically, I have been dealing with the thought as to why God and others would love me like this. You see, first and foremost, God’s love for us in unconditional. We have done nothing, now will we do something, to ever deserve it. He loves us. PERIOD. END OF STORY. He sent His Son to die for us, that should explain it all right there.
I have a tendency to eel so unworthy of my friendships, so unworthy of the blessings I have in my life each and everyday. Look at how far He has brought me in my health battles. I often ask myself why would You even bother with someone like me? There are people, whom I love, who are going through such complicated things, yet He sees fit to spend time on me? Why? I just didn’t get it!
One of the ladies in my church, whom I view as a spiritual grandmother, said it quite simply to me. We may never understand why He loves us the way He does, or works in us to bless us. But this is true, when He sent His Son to die for us, He saw our faces. Wow! Can we honestly wrap our minds around that concept?
I have the best friends in the ENTIRE world. I mean that. I love each and everyone of them, and I would, without hesitation, stand in front of a bullet for them. I have prayed for them, laughed with them, cried with them (and they still are my friends…LOL). I yearn to follow after God in showing unconditional love to those around me. They don’t have to do anything for it…just be themselves…
Well today, I was able to witness an answer to prayer. One of my friends was able to start that climb out of a valley in his life. I was in tears when I heard that voice screaming, “It’s OVER!!!!!” As much as God blessed that friend today, as much as God wrapped him in His arms and gave him that supernatural hug, He was also hugging me at the same time.
His love for us is unconditional. Isn’t it time that we start showing that unconditional love to the ones we love as well? Isn’t it time to stop questioning why, and keep following His footsteps?
Such a good reminder for us this week…
