I Am Secure in the Love of God

Posted on Dec 30, 2014 Topic : Weekly Devotionals

I have loved you with an everlasting love. (Jeremiah 31:3)

Who has not longed for love? Who has not sought security, devotion, and commitment from one significant person, only to find himself empty-handed and empty-hearted? God created each person with an inner need for unconditional love. Yet we all know what it is like to have loved and lost.

This is why the love of God is unfathomable. As a child of God, you can never be lost from His love. Nothing you can do will make God love you more. Nothing you can do will make God love you less. He loves you without merit; He loves you without measure.

From 1857 to 1866, when attempts were made to lay a transatlantic telegraph cable between Europe and North America, workmen discovered ocean depths they were unable to fathom, depths they were unable to measure or to probe. A weighted line dropped to a depth of 2,000 fathoms (one fathom equals six feet) still did not reach the ocean floor. This depth was called “unfathomable.” Similarly, the depth of God’s love is beyond measure. “Can you fathom the mysteries of God? Can you probe the limits of the Almighty?” (Job 11:7). Imagine, if you can, this is the vastness of God’s love for you!

Perhaps the most poetic expression of God’s unfathomable love was written long ago by a man who died in an asylum. These words were found scribbled on the wall beside his bed:

Could we with ink the ocean fill,
And were the skies of parchment made;
Were ev’ry stalk on earth a quill,
And ev’ry man a scribe by trade;
To write the love of God above
Would drain the ocean dry;
Nor could the scroll contain the whole,
Though stretched from sky to sky.

Later, Frederick Lehman added these words in penning the song The Love of God:

O love of God, how rich and pure!
How measureless and strong!
It shall forevermore endure—
The saints’ and angels’ song.

How, then, can you even begin to grasp the love of God? In part, by looking at Christ’s sacrificial death on the cross, and His resurrection, and His love for you. His death redeems you; His sacrifice saves you; His life liberates you. In love, He laid down His life for you so His life could be lived through you.

Seeing yourself through God’s eyes, you can be assured His love never fails—it is forgiving, freeing…fathomless.

I have value…because I am secure in the love of God.