Biblical Principles of Divine Love
The Lord’s lovingkindness is everlasting, it never ends. His infinite integrity, and eternal virtue are unchanging, and this means an unlimited capacity for love. God gives of Himself whether there is an occasion to or not. Divine love is self-sacrificing.
I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and delivered Himself up for me. (GAL 2:20)
Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children; and walk in love, just as Christ also loved you, and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma. (EPH 5:1-2)
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her. (EPH 5:25)
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
(1 Jo 4:10)
2. God’s love is never cancelled or changed because of anything His divine omniscience knows about us. He knew billions of years ago about our sins and failures, but His knowledge of these things never affected His love.
Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the rebellious act of the remnant of His possession? He does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in unchanging love. (MIC 7:18)
But because the LORD loved you and kept the oath which He swore to your forefathers, the LORD brought you out by a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with lovingkindness. (JER 31:3)
Now before the Feast of the Passover, Jesus knowing that His hour had come that He should depart out of this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end. (JOH 13:1)
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