By He Reads Truth
Scripture Reading: Psalm 103:11-14, Hosea 11:1-9, John 3:16-17, Romans 5:8, Ephesians 3:14-19, 1 John 4:7-21
“God is love” (1John 4:16). He is always loving—even when He disciplines, even when He enacts judgment. This divine love is infinite, meaning it is bigger than we could ever imagine and more overwhelming than we could fully receive on our own.
We were made for God’s love, so it should not surprise us that, at every turn, the enemy of God’s people chooses to sow doubt at this critical place in our souls. When considering the forbidden fruit in the garden, the serpent told Eve, “God knows that when you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil” (Genesis 3:5). In other words, we believe the lie that God is somehow holding out on us, that He does not really love us. It worked with Adam and Eve, and the enemy has been using this same tactic ever since.
We tend to filter what the Bible tells us about the love of God through our experience of love with people who, like us, love imperfectly. The Bible gives us a definition of love in 1 John, imploring us to not define love on our own terms but instead to see love from heaven’s perspective: “Love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins” (1John 4:10).
Everything God does is loving, and His love is most clearly seen on the cross. God’s love is sacrificial—He gave His Son for the good of those whom He loves. The scars of Christ’s crucifixion are evidence of God’s love (John 20:27), declaring that He did not withhold even His only Son from us, no matter what the enemy may try to tell us.
Written by The He Reads Truth Team
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