Some of us would remember that back in Sunday school we used to sing about God’s Love, that: “God’s love is so wonderful; it’s so high that you can’t get over it, it’s so low that you can’t get under it, it’s so wide that you can’t get around it…”

Apostle Paul talks about it to the Ephesian Church in Ephesians 3:16-19 that—it has width and length and depth and height and passes knowledge.

It’s unfathomable, incredible, indescribable and unspeakable. I don’t know if I’m using the right words for God’s love but it’s far beyond degree.

Have you heard about the statement “Love alone is never enough?” What do you think about it?

In as much as there are many other different kinds of love being taught, as believers the love of God must be our source of any kind of expression we make. Any kind of love we demonstrate must have itself rooted, grounded and built-up in the love of God.

So when I hear people say that ‘love is never enough’ I ask “what kind of love are they talking about?” For the love I know, it is enough. God’s love is always and very much enough. It satisfies fully.

God’s love is enough!

Love (with faith) arguably is the basic unit of our new life in Jesus Christ. I’m saying all this because the Holy Spirit we received has poured God’s love in our hearts. This means that God’s righteousness revealed in our lives is His love at work in us. Thus we live the life of faith through love. It is God’s powerful love in us that shows everyone around us that we have received a new life and have been made new.

To believers in Christ Jesus, I am glad to tell you that God’s love led Him to create the world and everything in it, including you and I. It was His love. God’s love has always been meant for us that is why it has always been available to us.

We know that nothing can separate us from the love God has for us. God’s love cannot be shaken or broken. It pursues His elect and thus, never gives up on us even after we have come to Him. And when one comes to Him, He lavishes more of His love to him. In Luke’s record of the Parables of Lostness [Luke 15] we see how God keeps coming after us. Oh what consistent love He has for us! It is God’s love that fought to redeem and reconcile us to Himself.

We love because He first loved us.

1 John 4:19

God has imprinted His kind of love on the tablets of our hearts, and hence, we can love Him through obedience and express unselfish love towards others. In the confines of God’s love we come to know what God has done, is doing and will do for us as we grow in Him. His love is filled with joy and confidence for all who receive it.

God’s love is in harmony with his wrath. We come to the cross and we see these two exchange hands. The Son lays down His life so that we may have life. God’s love is righteous and because God is righteous He will not allow sin to go unpunished. His wrath makes us see how much of a loving Father God is. He disciplines those He loves.

At the cross God’s love compensated His wrath. The Father had to bruise His own Son to the extent that He couldn’t look upon Him as Jesus died as a curse hanging on that tree at Calvary. While the Father’s wrath poured out, His love filled that emptying cup. Then, God was drawing sinful humanity back to Himself, in that, as our sins were passed over to Christ Jesus, the righteousness of Christ was imputed to all who believe that God might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. Forgiveness of sins was being given freely to sinful humanity.

We could never stand God’s wrath (being His enemies, dead in sins and treapasses and without hope and without God), but God demonstrates His own love toward us, that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. By this, through faith, we have escaped the wrath to come having had our sins forgiven and being presented blameless and without blemish before the Father, by the Son, the Holy Spirit having become our surety, even as we have been chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world was laid.

The wrath of God is against all the children of disobedience who have not faith in Jesus Christ. You will not know what it means to love if Christ is not in you and if your heart has not being changed or renewed by the Holy Spirit through regeneration. If you’re that one, you must be born again. Repent from your sins and turn to the living God. God freely gives eternal life through His Son Jesus Christ.

There is no love so real and true as God’s love.