God's Unfailing Love

I’d like to pique your interest in a little Bible study this morning. How different the world would be if we all understood God's unfailing love.

God’s “unfailing love,” is mentioned 32 times in the NIV Bible.
Webster’s definition: “unfailing:” inexhaustible, constant, unflagging, infallible (incapable of failing).

“Love:” an intense affectionate concern for another; a beloved person.
Hebrew dictionary on “love:” chashaq (khawshak): to cling, join, to love, delight in.
King James Version translates unfailing love, mercy.
Hebrew dictionary on “mercy:” checed (kheh-sed) kindness, rarely reproof, favor,
loving kindness, good deed.

God’s love: forgiving, unconditional, merciful, gracious, aspiring, hopeful; does not fail, is not intermittent and conditional. “Matthew 7:11 tells us, “You earthly fathers being evil love to give good gifts to your children, how much more your Heavenly Father wants to give to you.”
How much less stress we would have if we really plumbed the depth of God’s love for us.

What is my part in God’s unfailing love?
1. Receive it as a child of God (one who walks in faith with Him)
¯ Clear conscience 1 John 3:21-22 Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God and receive from him anything we ask, because we obey his commands and do what pleases him.
¯ Obedient (1 John 3:21-22)
¯ Open to receive
¯ Daily renewing the mind with His “unfailing love” words. Romans 12: 2 Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind…

2. abandon self sufficiency
¯ self sufficiency’s focus is doing, accomplishing; ears are not tuned to hearing and observing God’s unfailing love, Zech 4:6 Not by might nor by power but by My Spirit says the Lord.
¯ John 15:5 “…without Me you can do nothing”

3. trust

** Time with Him to build relationship
1. Scripture: Meditate on, study, memorize. 2 Tim.3:16-17 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
2. prayer
3. journaling (Psalmist writing)
4. Replicate: Comply with the Great commandment, Mark 12:30-31 love God, others and self
5. Clean out past emotional baggage that would contaminate receiving His unfailing love; i.e. an unforgiving spirit. Matt.6:12,15 Forgive our debts as we also have forgiven our debtors…but if you don’t forgive men their sins your Father will not forgive your sins.
6. Obedience in conjunction with love: John 15: 9-14 "As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and remain in his love. I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command.

7. Evidence of His unfailing love
His presence
His availability
His patience with us

Dear fellow traveler, how are you doing experiencing God’s love?