Theme: The Inexhaustible Love of God
Scripture: Jeremiah 31:3b The Message Version
“I’ve never quit loving you and never will. Expect love, love, and more love!
Devotional:
In a conversation with someone, discussing love, in general and God's love, more specifically, they admitted that they often feel as though they fall short of God's love. This, they said, is because of falling short of the moral imposition from the church and the society at large. They spoke to a phenomenon of morality that is imposed. It is unattainable. It is subjective. For example, if you kill a cockroach; you're a hero but if you kill a butterfly, you are a villain. Why? They are both God's creatures.
God's love is for each and every creature that is on God's planet. It's not simply reserved for those deemed worthy but for all of God's creatures, who, by command of God, were named good!
Some of you may have heard me say publicly, "God's love for me is inexhaustible!" There's only one time that comment has ever been challenged, mostly because that person did not have capacity to imagine how big inexhaustible is and actually said that to name it inexhaustible is, in fact, limiting God. I chose not to argue my point and I stand by my mantra, "God's love for me is inexhaustible!"
It cannot be measured - it is inexhaustible.
It does not end - it is inexhaustible.
It is enough. Whatever you need. How ever much you need. It is inexhaustible.
Today's invitation is to sit with this idea of God's inexhaustible love for us. My guess is that none of us can even imagine it because as my friend pointed out in our conversation, we - humans - put limitations, conditions, and values on our love.
Not one of us can fathom a love that is so big, so deep, so never-ending that it'll continue even beyond our death. We can't. We are conditioned and socialized to limit our love, capturing its essence but missing its breadth. Our love -in most cases - has an expiration date.
Whether you understand my starting point or not, I want you to know that God's love for me is inexhaustible - and God's love for you is inexhaustible, too!
Selah.
Prayer:
God, I believe that you love me. I believe that your love for me will never end. Please, God, help my unbelief. Help me to receive your inexhaustible love for me despite my mistakes, my deficiencies, and my faults. I want to feel your love so deep and know that I know that I know that it is inexhaustible!
Reflection Questions:
How do you receive God's love? Do you receive love from others?
Amazed by God's Grace (and inexhaustible love!)
Pastor Dawnn
