LOVE WITHOUT MEASURE

How fitting that Valentine's Day, the day love is shown in a special way, falls between Christmas and Easter as if to bridge the two together. God loved us so much that He sent His only Son to begin life in the womb of a virgin to live a life of hardship and rejection, then to die as a result of being beaten and nailed to a cross, having no guilt. No one has ever shown greater love than this.

 

Just how big is God's love? According to Scripture, it fills the earth and is as high as the heavens are above the earth. (Ps. 103:11). No telescope is powerful enough to see that far. Every time a new, more powerful telescope is invented, it reveals more "heavens" past the ones already known. Space rockets traveling at super seeds over great distances are as if they had never left the ground when compared to the vastness of the heavens. God's love is infinite.

 

God's love is as far as the east is from the west. We can get in our cars and travel west for the rest of our lives and we will still be going west. We can travel east for the rest of our lives and still be going east. The two never really meet; they just go on forever, as does God's love.

 

His love not only goes back to the time before we were formed in our mothers' wombs, but before He formed the earth. His love is from everlasting to everlasting. It is without beginning or end.
 

It is as strong as death. Death is powerful because once it occurs, life is no longer possible. But God's love is actually stronger than death in that it overcame death through His Son, Jesus, so that we, too, can overcome the power of death.

 

Water cannot quench the fire of God's love; it is undying. Money cannot buy it; it is priceless. Works cannot earn it; it is a free gift. We have only to receive it. In fact, it is there whether or not we receive it.

 

It is up to us to show God's love through our attitude and actions, not as a duty, but because we love God Who first loved us.  —Becky Overturf Wall