God’s Grand Love Story

“God is love” 1 John 4:8,16

Greetings my precious friends in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! It’s indeed a pleasure for me to get in touch with you all through this blog.

This verse has always intrigued me – “God is love”. I used to wonder – is there any existential proof of true, selfless love? A quest that has always followed me since I was a child. I have nearly searched every act, every word, every relationship if there’s ever anyone who knows only how to give without expecting in return, to forgive without having to ever think about it twice if the person is deserving of it!

The quest continued uninterrupted until a point in my life when I met someone called Jesus. The experience was real. My family and I were going through a really hard time following my grandmother’s demise and was seeking solace in any place, person we could. I remember vividly sitting on my grandmother’s bed with my Bible turned to the book of Daniel, meditating. And there all of a sudden there was this picture in front of my eyes of an unending sea, a sea in which I felt I could see the horizon and yet couldn’t clearly define it due to its vastness. It was such a beautiful scenic picture that I was lost in admiration of what I was seeing. And then suddenly and simultaneously I heard someone say, “This is how much the Lord loves you. You will never know its horizon.” As and when I was hearing this beautiful Voice, I felt something unfurl deep inside of me, as if someone had made me know what it is to feel truly loved, truly forgiven. (Later I had the revelation that this Voice was none but my Precious Holy Spirit).

Recently I was meditating on the Book of Job and something that has never struck me before unfurled in front of my eyes this time. I’ve read the book umpteen times before and this didn’t occur to me until recently when I knew the fact that Job is proposed to have lived at a time that was even before the time of Abraham! Most importantly, a time when probably he wasn’t even aware that there was a loose enemy (Satan) in the world who could be jealous of his righteous ways, who could bring him destruction for the same! (Job 1:1-12) As this realization dawned on me, I understood that, through his entire struggle, Job should have been convinced that it was the Lord who was testing him – why he wasn’t sure but for whatever reason, Job believed He (God) had all rights to give and take what was and is primarily His! (Job 1:21)

It has always baffled me about how much Job should’ve known and perceived the Lord’s character to have trusted in His faithfulness at his worst, with absolutely no help from others around him. (Job 2:9,10)

But this time the story hit me differently. Having known the fact that Job was completely unaware of the ‘real person’ tempting him, no where through the whole story did I ever find God defending Himself!

After the whole temptation and testing and Job having successfully held onto the Lord through it, it could have been very well easy for the Lord to have revealed to Job, that the enemy had asked of His permission to tempt Job for his righteous ways, but He didn’t.

The Lord never once did try to explain that ‘He’ wasn’t the reason for Job’s loss. And till Job’s last breath I believe he might have not known this truth.

This thought tingled me, made me wonder, what it is like to have someone believe that you were at fault when you weren’t, and worse still keep silent till forever about it and yet love them unconditionally, when a simple explanation could make their love for you different.

This made me wonder all the more of how Christ would’ve felt at the Cross and probably still feels today, to have chosen to love us in spite of the stark truth that we may never truly and fully understand His sacrifice on the Cross for us.

For once in my life, I felt there does exists something called true, unconditional and selfless love.

To be able to sacrifice, love, forgive someone when you know that till the end, they may never have a chance to understand your love or worse still – never even know the truth!

Christ’s love is such – ever giving, ever loving, ever forgiving without having to know whether the person receiving it will ever know the truth of the depth of His love.

In fact, the whole BIBLE holds instances and records of the Lord saving and forgiving mankind without having it known to them that it was He who saved them! (The Story of Ninevah – Jonah chapters 1-4). Unconditional yet unrevealing and non-expectant love!

His love suffers long, is kind, does not envy, does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, not provoked, thinks no evil, does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. It never fails. (1 Corinthians 13:4-8).

My dearest friend, how can we not accept this sweet love which has nothing to take but has all to give?  

There’s no greater offer to take, no sweeter love to taste, no glorious experience to have except this endearing Love of Jesus. It’s offered free, accepted by faith and lived out in grace. Make a choice today to accept it that can change your life for ever!

He’s waiting and always will.

In Him,

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