God's Love For His Own

We often write and talk and communicate about “God’s Love,” as well we should. The fact is that God IS LOVE. That’s right, Scripture teaches that He is Love (that is His character/nature/being). The subject is deep, just as God Himself is beyond our comprehension or understanding.

While God is Love, and God loves, it is important to remember that God is also righteous and holy. He is beyond reproach, unable to even abide near sin or sinners. This necessitates His judgment of, and separation from, anything unholy.

Therefore, God hates that which is unclean/unholy. He can have no fellowship with it. (God declared His hatred of Esau while he was yet in his mother’s womb, having done neither right nor wrong/via Romans 9. All because of His predetermined election and love for Jacob instead of Esau/ via grace and election.)

As such, God’s perfectly unconditional love (Agape Love), as described in  I Corinthians Chapter 13, is directed toward His children both before and after they are born-again; while the non-Elect get His vicious wrath and hatred in this life and the next (God states 14 groups of people or individuals that He hates in the first 50 Psalms alone!). They reap what they sow, just as we do apart from God’s grace.

Even so, God still treats non-elect far better than they deserve – because He is merciful. God allows everyone to fall into their own humanized traps, yet demonstrates levels of mercy that we ourselves never would!

To some, God’s hate and awful wrath seem contradictory to His love; but, this is not the case. In fact, His righteous hatred and wrath against non-believers makes His love toward His own perfect. He is righteous, and must behave in such a manner. Why?

All sinners deserve death, Hell, and eternal torture – even we Christians; it is only by God’s grace through the finished works of Jesus Christ on the Cross of Calvary that we all do not get what He gives the unsaved/un-elected. God sees Christians through the prism of Christ’s sacrifice for them.

Jesus bore responsibility for our sins, and died and rose again as our sacrifice/Savior, if we believe upon Him and His holy name. In fact, He is Lord of all – especially those that believe. That is real love. That is Agape’. He who knew no sin became sin for those in particular that He loves and were chosen by the Father for Him.

Jesus Christ (Creator of the Universe, The Word) willingly accepted His role as Savior of all those that believe upon Him, to provide God the Father with a holy chosen family that was lured, convicted, and secured by the Holy Spirit. Again, that is real love.