God Loves Us Unconditionally

But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. – Romans 5:8

Yesterday, we began talking about how we can clearly see the love Jesus has for us by looking at what He did for us on the cross. If you love someone so much that you’re willing to die for them, that’s a special love. And that’s the kind of love Jesus has for you and me!

We already talked about how we can have confidence in Jesus’ love because the cross demonstrates that He loves us uniquely. But there are two more reasons we can have this same confidence. Let’s look at those now.

The second reason we can be confident in Jesus’ love is because the cross declares that God loves us unconditionally. God does not love us because we deserve His love; He loves us in spite of the fact that we don’t. God doesn’t love us because we are lovable. After all, we are not. God doesn’t love us because we love Him...because there was a time when none of us loved Him.

Thus, as sinners long before we became saints, God loved us not when we were for Him, but when we were against Him. That means because His love is not dependent on what we do, how we act, or whether or not we reciprocate. His love will never change.

The third reason we can be confident in God’s love is because the cross displays that God loves us universally. You can measure the value of a gift in two ways: by what it cost the person who gave it and by the worthiness of the person who received it. In other words, the more a gift costs someone and the less the recipient deserves it, the greater that love is. That is why, according to those two standards, the love that God demonstrated, declared, and displayed at the cross is so unique, so unconditional, and so universal. What did it cost? The death of God’s Son. Who were the recipients of the gift? Ungodly sinners who deserved just the opposite.

That is why preaching the gospel and sharing the good news with people is the greatest most exciting privilege in the world, because I can look anybody, anywhere, anytime, at any place, right in the eye, never blink, never hesitate, never stammer, and never stutter, and say, “God loves you.”

God loves you despite who you are or what you have done. God will take you where you are, accept you, pour out His love on you, change you, adopt you, form you, give you His grace, take your guilt, give you His salvation, and take your sin all because He loves you that much. Praise the Lord for His love!

Dear Lord, thank you for loving me unconditionally and universally. I pray that you will help me rest in the security and assurance of your love and that I will never take your love for granted. In Jesus’ name, amen.