(By Pastor Jean)

God’s love is everlasting. “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore, I have continued to extend faithful love to you” (Jer 31:3; CSB). God’s love never fails (Psalm 109:26), (1 Cor 13:8). God’s love is wide, long, high and deep and it surpasses knowledge (Eph 3:19). God’s love is forgiving (Mark 2:5). God’s love is compassionate (Matt 9:36, 15:32, Luke 7:13). God’s love is without limits (Rom 8:39). God’s love is sacrificial, “Greater love has no man than this, than to lay down one’s life for His friends” (John 15:13; NKJV). 1 John 4:8 tells us that, “God is love. (He is the originator of love, and it is an enduring attribute of His nature”) (AMP). The Greek word used for God’s love is agape which means unconditional love which we see in the above verse, also John 3:16 and Rom 5:6-8. God died for all of us and we were all sinners but His love was so great that He endured a criminal’s death in order to save us from hell. God’s love has the power to change our lives and probably the best example of this in the Bible is Paul (Acts 9). After his encounter with Jesus on the road to Damascus he became a Jesus fanatic and wrote a large portion of the New Testament. Finally, God’s love is inspirational! Because of God’s tremendous love for us we can love ourselves and others with the agape love of God.