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Unconditional Love

Romans 8:39

“neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Jesus our Lord” 

Growing up in school, I was known as the guy that was good at basketball. Being good allowed me to make friends, gave me a self-esteem, and gave me a social protection. After a while, I built my identity around basketball. I started to think that people only liked me because of my ability to play. My thought process derived that without this sport, I somehow wasn’t valued as a person. Outside of basketball, I viewed myself as insecure, unconfident, and unloved. 

The idea of Love has been skewed. Overtime we have made our own interpretation of what this concept would mean, and I am guilty of it too. For me, growing up with very selfless people, my idea of Love is depicted through action. I rationalised Love as something to be worked for or earned, but it’s not: well not the way God loves. 

I’m not here to unpack what worldly Love is, because quite frankly if we did, we would be here all day, with different viewpoints. But today, I wanted to focus on a different type of Love: God’s love. From the scripture, we see that God’s love has no limits, it isn’t bound by your mood, the way you treat him or what you lack. 

With God, his Love is unconditional, meaning no amount of work can be done to earn it. His love isn’t temporary, it doesn’t fade away, in fact he loved you before you even had a relationship with him, so much so that he came into flesh as a human being to die for you. 

For us, we may think that the greatest Love that we could ever receive would require some level of work to receive it, but that’s not how God operates. God fits outside the realm of worldly thinking, which makes sense because his Love, in nature, isn’t worldly Love. God’s love isn’t based on the value you bring to him because he is your source of value. 

God’s Love is Unconditional.

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