I was christened into the Catholic Church when I was four months old. My parents were devout church attendees. There was not a Sunday that we did not attend church. During the 1960’s, in my growing up years, Americans went to church on Sundays. Church attendance was the central evidence of the Christian life during the 60’s and the 70’s. It did not matter what your life practices were from Monday – Saturday, but on Sunday morning, it all halted. Now 64 years later, I am still going to church every Sunday, and there are so many others who do the same, and in most churches, Sunday Christianity is still practiced. Things have changed a lot since then. I remember going to church during the racial times of the South and sitting in the small section made especially for black people. The white people sat in the main section of the church. Fast forward to today, when Bibles are widely available and the Internet provides no place to hide, I am amazed how anyone could think segregating people by race in the Body of Christ was acceptable to God.

I have learned a lot since those days and the 34 years since I gave my life to Christ. I have seen a lot of bad behavior and have experienced God’s love since those times. In my book, “God Is Always Good”, I write about God’s amazing and unconditional love for His creation. He watches us day in and day out behaving badly and He only requires that we acknowledge our wrong and He will forgive us and lavish us with His unconditional love. And He does the same thing for those who do not come to their senses, loving each person until they take their last breath always extending His arms of forgiveness. The bad news is, that there is an eternal consequence for rejecting His love and ending our time on this earth in that state of rejection. But in this post, I want to talk about His enduring love and what I have learned about this love through getting to know God through the Bible. Here is an excerpt from my book God’s Perfect Love.

“To receive love from God and learn to love this supernatural, sovereign God, we must understand that His love for us is not determined by how we want Him to show us love but by what He sees as the most loving thing. God looks beyond what is the best thing for us today, He desires to give us what is best for us throughout our lives.  Every time we veer from God’s plan, He knows how to see us back in the right plan.  Sometimes, we may only see the fruit of how God has worked in our lives once years have passed. Because God’s ways are higher than our ways, we cannot always see God’s love when things do not go the way we envisioned. Sometimes we may pray for something, believing it is what we want, but God knows better and knows that this very thing may cause us more harm than God.  Because of His love for us, He may not allow what we think we should have.  Some people do not see this as a loving response from God.   When this happens, some may create their version of God for themselves.

They have decided how their god will answer their prayers, how their god will accept their behavior, what their god will give them, and how much they can manipulate their god. The false gods people create will continually keep those who worship them feeling unloved when things do not go as they had planned. A made-up god has no power over our living God. When hard times come, and their made-up god does not come through for them, they walk away and leave the false faith they conjured up. Proverbs 29:15, “The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child who gets his way brings shame to his mother.” God knows that giving us our way, is not the most loving thing to do, especially when He sees from heaven that this may harm us. The Proverbs are our great source of wisdom and understanding of how to live our lives in a way that shows that we love God when we obey His commands. Another way that God shows His love for us is when He disciplines us for our sinful behavior. 

Proverbs 3:11-12, “My son, do not reject the discipline of the Lord or loathe His reproof, for whom the Lord loves He reproves, even as a father corrects the son in whom he delights.” God’s perfect love for us causes Him to discipline us so that we can become more like Him. His perfect love for us compels Him to call us to perfection because He desires to dwell with us, and God can not dwell with sin.” Just knowing that God wants to have fellowship with me blows my mind. He is holy, perfect, all-knowing, sovereign of all things, and desires to have a personal, loving relationship with each of us. When I read through the Old Testament, I saw how God dealt with the children of Israel, constantly inviting them to enter into His love and protection after they rejected Him time after time, I came to begin to see God in a very different way. God is a spiritual Person. He has feelings and thoughts, just like we do. He subjected Himself to come to this earth and experience life just as we do, so He can sympathize and relate to us. That to me is a love that no one can compare to. You can buy this book on Shopify and fall in love with a God who loves you in a way no one else ever will. Be blessed.