When God Wrote Me a Love Letter
During my quiet time with the Lord this week, I opened my journal, as I often do, and I started writing. I just write whatever is on my heart. It's usually in the form of prayers or crying out to God or whatever is burdening me. I don't usually use this quiet time for my professional writing. These are not times for polished poems with perfect rhyme and meter or blog posts with great flow and perfect grammar. My journaling time usually isn't accompanied by deep research, but it is almost always joined with scripture meditation. Anyway, this time, what I wrote flowed like a conversation as I wrote down what I felt God was speaking to my heart.
When I finished, I paused to take it all in. As my dog licked up my tears (gotta love him!), I knew I needed to check this against Scripture. The word says to test everything against scripture and I always want to make sure EVERYTHING, even my personal journal entries, line up with God's Word. As I read back through what I'd written, I noticed something remarkable: these simple words contained seven attributes of God's love, each one backed by Scripture.
We can get caught up in theology (which matters!) and forget something simple: God's love is personal, deeply personal. While this letter came to me during my quiet time, I believe these words about God's love are for you too. I want to share this unedited letter with you, and then let's look at these seven truths about God's love that emerged from these pages.
A Love Letter from God
I will love you through many lifetimes and through all of eternity—
in the past, in the present, and forevermore.I love you with an everlasting love,
a love that never changes,
that is deeper than the ocean
and wider than all the earth.It is a love that you don’t comprehend,
but that doesn’t make it any less real.
No matter what you do,
my love for you does not change.
It is constant and it doesn’t depend upon you.You can never do anything to change my love for you.
I am faithful.
I am true.
And I will always love you.My love doesn’t run out—it has no end.
I loved you before you existed,
because you already existed in Me.You see,
you don’t know this kind of love
because it’s not of this world.
It is a love that begins with Me and is Me.I am love.
Abide in my love,
bask in its goodness.It is my love that sustains you.
It is the life inside of you.
There is no other love like this,
but I pour it out onto you.Receive it,
and may it overflow
like rivers of living water.No other love satisfies like my love.
I am the lover of your soul.
Receive me and stay with me.
You see,
I will never leave or forsake you.
But please,
stay here with me.Draw close to me.
Get to know my love.
It will change you.
You will never be the same.It’s a love that died for you.
Have you ever known a love
that would give up His own life
because He loves you?I gave my entire life for you.
Now I invite you to come close.
Come close to me.
Draw near.Don’t be scared.
Love awaits.
God's Love Is Personal
"I am the lover of your soul. Draw close to me."
God doesn't just love the whole world in general. He loves you, specifically. Zephaniah 3:17 says He actually sings over us. Think about that. The God who made everything takes time to sing over you. He knows the very number of hairs on your head (Luke 12:7). He has searched us and he knows us (Psalm 139:1-2)
God's Love Is Everlasting
"I will love you through many lifetimes and through all of eternity... My love doesn't run out—it has no end."
His love for us spans beyond our earthly timeline. It's always existed and it will exist forever. Jeremiah 31:3 affirms this: "I have loved you with an everlasting love." This isn't just poetic language; it's a promise that God's love exists outside of time itself.
God's Love Is Unchanging
"No matter what you do, my love for you does not change. It is constant and it doesn't depend upon you."
Even when our feelings change, our devotion changes, and our love changes, His love remains constant. As Lamentations 3:22-23 tells us, "The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end." Even when our faith wavers, His love stands firm.
God's Love Is Unconditional
"You can never do anything to change my love for you. I am faithful. I am true."
I spent years trying to earn God's love through good behavior and religious performance. But Romans 5:8 reveals the truth: "But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us." His love isn't based on our "perfect" lives, it's based on His character.
God's Love Is Sacrificial
"It's a love that died for you. Have you ever known a love that would give up His own life because He loves you?"
How many people would step in front of a moving train to save someone else's life? This very sacrificial nature of God's love cost Him everything. John 3:16 isn't just a verse we memorized in Sunday school, it's God's love story with humanity. When I think about how much I love my own child, it overwhelms me to consider that God loved us enough to give His only Son.
God's Love Is Transformational
"It will change you. You will never be the same."
Just as 2 Corinthians 5:17 promises that in Christ we become new creations, experiencing God's love changes us from the inside out. His love brings healing to places we didn't even know were broken. His love causes us to love in ways we never knew how. He is the potter and we are the clay. Day-by-day, we are being transformed into His glorious image.
God's Love Is Satisfying
"No other love satisfies like my love... It is my love that sustains you."
We all want to feel satisfied. Have you ever eaten until you're full, but still craved something more? With God's love we are never left wanting. As Psalm 107:9 tells us, "For he satisfies the longing soul, and the hungry soul he fills with good things." No earthly relationship, achievement, or possession can fill the God-shaped void in our hearts. His love alone truly satisfies.
Finding Rest in His Love
These seven attributes of God's love paint a picture of a love unlike anything this world offers. Today, I encourage you to sit with these words. Let them sink deep into your heart. Consider writing your own letter back to God. In my own journey, I've found that understanding and receiving His love changes everything else.
Which attribute of God's love do you most need to embrace today?
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