I still remember my initial reaction to the statement, “God couldn’t love you any more than He already loves you.” You would think that such a statement would make one jump and shout for joy, but that wasn’t the case for me. In fact, that statement for me created the opposite effect.

I had a feeling of sadness and disappointment come over me and a feeling almost leading to despair.
My thinking was, if God loved me so much and I was in the state I was in, with so many things not working and my life not going the way I would have expected, then what hope did I have that things would get better if that was all of God’s love I was seeing. You see, my understanding of God’s love was that , the more He loved me, the more my life would improve and somehow, though unquestioned was this thinking that the better I obeyed His word, the more His love for me grew and then in return, I would experience more of His blessings.

In other words, the measure of His love was expressed in how much blessing I saw. So you can imagine my panic when I heard that God would not love me any more than He already does.

One of the aims of this blog is to challenge belief systems. As Christians, there are so many things we could take on face value and don’t even believe them deep down, yet we acknowledge them when we hear them and they become added to our cliché collections, like the statement that “God couldn’t love you any less”.

You see, God cannot love you any more than He already does and He couldn’t love you any less no matter what you do, and these apply to the “very good” people and the “very bad” people. Let me go further to say that God loves the ‘very bad people’ no less than He loves the ‘ very good people ‘.

In an attempt to explain this, I will use the analogy of a newborn baby. When a baby is born, that baby is born a full human being. No matter how tiny they come, birth complications, or what disabilities they came with, all of these scenarios do not make them any less human than one who came in perfect condition. And just as no child is any less human due to any complications, the love of God is complete without any human additions or subtractions of any kind as 1 John 4: 8b says :

…. for God is love.

God is not trying to love a world full of sinful people with evil deeds, He is not trying his best to love us when we get so unlovable. GOD IS LOVE. Love is WHO God is, love is God’s nature, He is not trying to be love, He is love and until you understand this, you will always try to earn the love of God but the question would be, how much deposit can you put aside through your actions be able to earn enough love for your lifetime?

A baby born ‘perfect ‘, with disabilities or still in the womb, is as much a human and couldn’t change from being human even if they tried.

The divide here now is what your understanding of that love is. What does the statement ‘God loves you’ mean to you ? Does it mean God loves you very much as long as you are good? Does it mean God loves you because you try your hardest ? No, no , no, as according to Romans 5:8 GNT

But God has shown us how much he loves us-it was while we were still sinners that Christ died for us!

But God put his love on the line for us by offering his Son in sacrificial death while we were of no use whatever to him. Romans 5: 6 MSG

God’s love for you was and is so perfect that He died for you even when you were in your worst state , He didn’t need your contribution to love you, now if you choose to accept and walk in this love, you will realise that you would have made the best decision of your life.

Much Blessings
Kingdom