It is unconditional because this is the only way we can get it. If God’s love was conditional to our performance none of us would ever get it.
“And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth” Deut28:1
God’s standard is perfection. The Law did not require us to do the best we could. It did not require us to get 80% and above. The Law demanded perfection. You had to obey all of it and if you failed you were cursed.
“For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them” Gal3:10
Even when you broke only one Law you were guilty of breaking all of them. You were as filthy as someone who broke all of them because you weren’t perfect.
“For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.” Jam2:10-11
As you can see there is none of us that can ever qualify or deserve the Love of God and the goodness of God. His love for us is unconditional. God loves you because you are His child, His bride, His friend. God loves you because He created you and you belong to Him. God created you to have a loving relationship with Him. A close intimate personal relationship in which He would shower and fill you with His love and blessings and goodness.
Ephesians 1:3-11 MSG
3 How blessed is God! And what a blessing he is! He's the Father of our Master, Jesus Christ, and takes us to the high places of blessing in him.
4 Long before he laid down earth's foundations, he had us in mind, had settled on us as the focus of his love, to be made whole and holy by his love.
5 Long, long ago he decided to adopt us into his family through Jesus Christ. (What pleasure he took in planning this!)
6 He wanted us to enter into the celebration of his lavish gift-giving by the hand of his beloved Son.
7 Because of the sacrifice of the Messiah, his blood poured out on the altar of the Cross, we're a free people--free of penalties and punishments chalked up by all our misdeeds. And not just barely free, either. [Abundantly] free!
8 He thought of everything, provided for everything we could possibly need,
9 letting us in on the plans he took such delight in making. He set it all out before us in Christ,
10a long-range plan in which everything would be brought together and summed up in him, everything in deepest heaven, everything on planet earth.
11 It's in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for. Long before we first heard of Christ and got our hopes up, he had his eye on us, had designs on us for glorious living God created us for love.
This is the purpose for our existence. To have eternal life. And eternal life is to know God. To experience God on a daily basis. To have an intimate relationship with God.
“And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.” Jn17:3
God was not interested in rules and regulations and sacrifices and religion. This is not the reason for which He created us. God created us for relationship, for love. He created us to give Him pleasure.
“Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.” Rev4:11
What God wanted and still wants from us is a relationship of love that gives Him pleasure. All that God does for us flows from His love for us and from the relationship that we have with Him. If you want the quality of your life to improve and to experience more healing and blessing and success and anointing you don’t get it by investing in more works. You get it by investing more in this faith relationship of love that we have with God.
God gave you His very best when you were still a filthy sinner. When you were His blood sucking enemy He gave you His only precious son. Do you expect that He can hold back anything else?
“He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?” Rom8:32
We received Jesus by simply believing and trusting in God’s goodness and His love for us. We didn’t first try to earn Him by praying, fasting forty days, tithing and so forth. We simply believed that God loved us enough to crucify His Son for us and we just received Him as a free gift. This is the way God wants us to continue with the rest of our Christian walk with Him.
“As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him” Col2:6
The same way we received Christ at the beginning is the way we should continue. We received Christ by simple faith and trust in God’s love and goodness towards us. This is the way we should continue in Him.
Galatians 3:1-5
O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if [it be] yet in vain. He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, [doeth he it] by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
Paul rebukes the Galatians for going away from this simple truth. They received Christ by simply believing and trusting God. This is the same way they received the baptism of the Holy Spirit and miracles from God. But now they had fallen back into legalism and thinking that they could earn God’s goodness and acceptance by being circumcised and living a holy life. Paul told them that they were behaving like bewitched people. Like stupefied people.
And yet this is how most Christians and churches are today. They think God loves and uses them because of their holy living and good works.
“But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.” Heb11:6
Faith is the only thing that pleases God. Faith is the only way we can experience the love and goodness of God in our lives. God loves to be believed and trusted. When we trust Him and depend on Him it pleases Him greatly. If God loved you when you hated Him and were His enemy much more does He love you now? Much more will He heal you, bless you, help you and do good to you. God loves you because He is love and good, not because you are lovely or good. God loves you because He is faithful to you, not because you are faithful to Him.
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