“God will never love you more than He does right now.” ~Hunter Barnes
Yesterday in service, Hunter Barnes shared a word from Paul’s prayer in Ephesians 3:14-21. As he spoke, focusing in on the love of God, he made the above statement. It’s been said before, and I may have even heard it said before, but yesterday was like hearing it for the first time.
See, I’m the kind of person that can easily be self-righteous. Tell me the guidelines and I’ll follow them….religiously. From this perspective, I would make a statement about God’s love by saying, “God will never love you less, even if you ___________” (fill in the blank with whatever separates you from God).
I think that’s why this statement grabbed my attention with such force. Lately, I feel so desperate to know more of God’s love. The love of God is not about trying to keep hold on something that might slip away. God’s love is constant, unchanging, and as Romans 8: 38-9 assures us, “… neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor ruling spirits, nothing now, nothing in the future, no powers, nothing above us, nothing below us, nor anything else in the whole world will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.“ It has nothing to do with me at all. This active love, this passionate pursuit of God for my affection, is mine, because He gives it freely.
He really will never love me any more than He does right now. I’ll take that.
(You can hear Hunter’s message from Jan 11th here: http://www.zarephath.org/sections/podcasts/)
