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Daily Devotion: The Word Revealed - God is Love: His Love is Eternal and Infinite - Psalm 90, Ephesians 2, 1 John 4

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“God is Love!”  The glorious fact that God is love is the reason that we have the joy of loving Him.  “We love Him because He first loved us.”  Every aspect of love in our lives flows from the foundational fact that God first loved us.  We have established the truth that God’s love is unmerited.  Today, we build on that wonder as we see that God’s love is both eternal and infinite.

God’s Love is Eternal

Is God eternal? Yes.  Psalm 90:1-2, “Lord, You have been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, Or ever You had formed the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God..”  Is God Love? Yes.  1 John 4:8b, “God is love.”  God’s eternity and God’s love go hand in hand.  God had no beginning; God’s love had no beginning.  God has no ending; God’s love has no ending.  God loved and chose the elect before the world was, in eternity.  Unmerited love was the foundation of that choice. Ephesians 1:4, “Just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love”  Whereas, the love of God had no beginning and came to the elect before creation, in like manner His love has no end.  God spoke to His children in Jeremiah 31:3b, “Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love.”

God’s Love is Infinite

Infinite is a great way to describe God.  Infinite means beyond measure or limitless.  His power is without limits, He is Omnipotent.  God is everywhere, He is Omnipresent.  His knowledge and wisdom know no bounds, He is Omniscient.  God’s Holiness is without flaw.  And praise His glorious, loving name, His love is infinite and knows no lack of supply or inability to perform.
There are times when we feel we have worn out someone’s love for us.  As mentioned in the last devotional, some people will often ask, “Of all people, why would God love me?”  Others ask a slightly different question, “How could God still love me?”  God’s love never gives out, the supply is endless.  Ephesians 2:4-7 states it so very well, “But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.”  Ponder the great fact that God loved us while we were dead in sins.  “Dead in sins” means we were alienated from God, or we were enemies of God.  Therefore, it is proper to say that God loved us, we who were His enemies.  What wondrous love is this, O my soul!

What depth and meaning comes into our lives when we realize the assurance, glory, power, and wonder of the fact that God’s love is both eternal and infinite.

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