God appeared to Jeremiah (Jeremiah 31:3) saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness.”  This is how The Message Bible says it: God told them, “I’ve never quit loving you and never will.  Expect love, love, and more love!”

I cannot understand why God would love me so passionately and unconditionally.  Why would He care for every detail of my being as much as to have a perfect plan for my life, “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future” (Jeremiah 29:11).

I don’t have a clue why God loves me that way. If I would study it, investigate it, or did research about it or even wrote a long dissertation on it, I would not be able to comprehend the immense, infinite love of God for me.  God’s love is not something meant to be understood, known or comprehended with our mind (intellectually), but with our heart.  God’s love is not learned in a book or a set of rules but it is experienced (hence the heart involvement) in a radical, life-transforming love relationship with Jesus.

God’s passionate love blows my mind! Passionate not as the movie industry defines it. Did you know the word “passionate” means SUFFERING? And such is the love of the heavenly Father for us; a love that suffers with us, for us and instead of us and it is only in the Cross that we see the face of God as the passionate lover, the one who suffers and lays down His life for us, “Greater love has no one than this, that He lay down His life for His friends” (John 15:13).

“Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God” (Ephesians 5:2).

“This is how God showed His love among us: He sent His one and only Son into the world that we might live through Him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins” (1 John 4:9-10).

Just as I cannot understand why God so passionately loves me, I cannot stop God from passionately loving me either! “Give thanks to the God of heaven. His love endures forever” (Psalm 136:26).

There is one thing I understand and I seek to do, TO LET GOD’S LOVE saturate me to overflow so it can spill unto others, that’s the one thing I understand.

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