Unconditional Love, May 2, 2011

Unconditional Love
 
Reading:I John 4:10-12, 10This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
 
I thought I knew what unconditional love was. I had heard about it all my life and knew God’s demonstration of that love. But, I never truly grasped it. I never truly understood it. I never truly experienced the real meaning until the first time I was able to look down on our little baby girl. There she lay. She had no ability to do anything for me. She had no experience to offer me. She had no help or assistance to give me. All she could do was produce extra work, sleep deprived nights, gross diapers, ears filled with cries and screams, constant bottle consumption, time taken away from alone time with my wife, and a lot of money spent on the million things a baby needs, and I loved it. I still remember the first time that I was able to stand over her crib and watch her sleep. I choked up with tears and my mind immediately went to the realization of God’s unconditional love for me as His child. Men, there is nothing you can do that will cause God to love you less.
 
Men, there is nothing that your brother in Christ has done to you that would surpass the gravity of what you have done to God in forcing His hand to send His Son to have to suffer and die for you. Unbelievable, unconditional love. So, how can we withhold unconditional love amongst our Christian family?
 
Who have you been withholding unconditional love from and why?
 
 
How will you be sure to demonstrate unconditional love to “love one another”?
REVIEW
 
How did you demonstrate unconditional love to “one another” today?
 
 
How did this impact your relationship and your perception of your Christian family?