We need to stop trying to ‘fix’ our kids, our spouses, and our friends and learn to love and accept them as they are. To be honest, you and I aren’t perfect either. Yet, despite our limitations and imperfections, God loves us unconditionally.
Tag Archives: Unconditional love
Fully Known Yet Fully Loved
Jacob’s story gives me hope. Why would He choose me with all my faults and flaws? But that is not how grace works. Grace is undeserved favor. And that grace has spilled over me, rendering me lovable and worthy in His sight. My imperfections are covered by His blood.
Ready to Respond
At times, I am guilty of unintentionally overlooking God’s outstretched arms. I rush into the day, relying on my own strength, my own resources, and my wrongful self-reliance, without pausing to fellowship with the One who loves me more than anyone else. The mere idea that God desires my company is beyond my feeble understanding. And yet, He does. He pursues me, relentlessly, with unfailing love.
Unconditional Love
We love because he first loved us. 1 John 4:19 (NIV) “Mommy, do you still love me?” His words sent me reeling. “Of course, I love you, sweetheart! Nothing and no one could ever change that.” “Even when I have a meltdown at school, and you have to come get me?” I …
The Unromantic Truth About Love
Guest Post by award-winning author Linda Lowe Apple This is my commandment, that you love one other as I have loved you. John 15:12 I used to struggle with this scripture. After all, how was I supposed to love perfect strangers like the grumpy receptionist or the backstabbing co-worker? Let’s not forget the fellow who …
The God Who Hung the Stars
You and I are more precious to God than any star that twinkles in the night sky. Not only does He know our name, but He is intimately acquainted with every detail of our lives.
Everlasting Father
Jesus reflected the Father, revealing to humanity a God who loves deeply and personally. He is our Abba, our Daddy, the One we can run to anytime, anywhere.
Immanuel – God with us
Immanuel – God’s answer to the lonely, the outcast, the shunned, the rejected, the ostracized. Immanuel – God’s promise that we will never be alone. Immanuel – God before us, behind us, beside us, within us – it doesn’t get any more personal than that.
The God who Suffers with Us
The vastness of God’s love is so immense He took on human form and came in person rather than send a proxy. Love Himself, in the flesh, to live what we live, to endure what we endure, to be the sacrificial lamb in our place.
Unconditional Love
We love because he first loved us. 1 John 4:19 (NIV) “Mommy, do you still love me?” His words sent me reeling. “Of course, I love you, sweetheart! Nothing and no one could ever change that.” “Even when I have a meltdown at school and you have to come get me?” I …