Jesus loves you unconditionally

The only love that has stood the test of time in our lives is God's love, am sure everyone has that story that ends or begins with 'If not for God in my life' or 'it was God's grace' He didn't get stuck with you, He chose you before the creation of your world just as Ephesians 1:4 says 'For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love'

Countless times we have sinned, made mistakes but he shows us mercy.

Love is not a theory or a gooey feeling, it begins with our thoughts and ends with how we treat people.

The Word for Today devotional by United Christian Broadcasters (UCB) says:

David said, ‘Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered’ (Psalms 32:1 NKJV). No matter how hard we worked, we could never pay off our sin debt.

And thank God we don’t have to, because ‘God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.’ Years ago a congregation decided to honour one of its retired pastors. He was ninety-two, and some people wondered why the church even asked the elderly man to speak.

After a warm welcome and introduction, he rose from his chair and walked with great dignity and effort to the pulpit. Leaning on the podium to steady himself, without notes of any kind, he began to speak: ‘When your pastor invited me here, he asked me to talk about the greatest lesson I’ve learned in fifty-plus years of preaching. I’ve thought about it for a few days, and boiled it down to the one thing that has made the most difference in my life and sustained me through all my trials.

'The one thing one can rely on when in tears, heartbreak, pain, fear and sorrow paralyse me…the one thing that always comforts me: Jesus loves me! This I know, for the Bible tells me so. Little ones to Him belong. They are weak but He is strong. Yes, Jesus loves me. Yes, Jesus loves me. Yes, Jesus loves me. The Bible tells me so.’

You could hear a pin drop as the old man shuffled back to his seat. It’s something the congregation never forgot. And it’s something you should never forget either. Jesus loves you unconditionally. That’s so today, tomorrow, and forever!