God's Love Never Fails

GOD’S LOVE THAT NEVER FAILS (1 Cor.
13:8)
Because God is sovereign and because God also being the Creator of all things; we can
also says that God is supreme and is in authority and control over all things including
angels and sinful humankind. This means that God also knows everything in advance and
nothing caught Him by surprise because God knows 100% what will happen before it
happens. Therefore nothing and no humans and angelic beings can hinder, disappoint
and thwart God in accomplishing His plan and purpose according to the good pleasure of
His will. To say that His plan and purpose can be hindered or thwarted by any human
being is to say that God (and His love) can fail and that God can experiences
disappointment.
When we talk of God’s love (and we know too that God is love) we can also say that
God’s love never fails (1 Cor. 13:8) and God’s love or God Himself will never experience
disappointment because He is sovereign. “Yet in all these things we are more than
conquerors through Him who loved us (Romans 8:37)”. Because if God experiences
disappointment then His love fails.
It is very important for us to remember this aspect or quality o God’s unfailing love. To
say that God’s love never fails is also to say and declare that God’s love is always 100%
successful. And of course God’s love is not passive but always an active one. God’s love
always act and it is always accompanied by an action. God’s love always act by giving
something valuable. Therefore if God decided to make us the object or recipient of His
love we will experience it although there were those time when we are not aware of that
experience or that love shown to us by God. There will always be that especial moments
when God is embracing us and yet for a wonderful purpose only known by God we are
not aware of that embrace.
When God says to Jeremiah in Jeremiah 31:3 “Yes I have loved you with an everlasting
love” God is not only telling Jeremiah that His love for Jeremiah is eternal but God is
also assuring him of His love that never fails. This eternal and love that never fails is also
the same kind of love that was expressed by Jesus Himself to His disciples that night
when Jesus was also talking to Nicodemus who later became also the follower of Jesus.
Remember when Jesus says “God so loved the world” we have to understand it in the
context of God’s everlasting love in Jer. 31:3 (it occurred before the creation of the
world) and God’s love that never fails in 1 Cor. 13 :8. Remember too that God never
changes therefore His love never changes too. To say that each time we sin against God;
He became angry with us and became disappointed is to say that God always changes His
mind and His love for us also changes.
Who is the object of God’s love in John 3:16? Is it al humankind or is it everybody?

Therefore if it all humankind it includes Cain who was of the wicked one (1 John 3:12).
Pharaoh of Egypt, Hitler, Saddam Hussein and other like Judas Iscariot. But if it includes
everybody then God’s love fails and God was very disappointed because many has
rejected Jesus Christ.
Some will say, yes God’s love never fails. But God created us a free moral agent. God has
given us the ability or the power to choose or reject God or Christ. If God’s love never
fails and yet we are a free moral agent who can chose to reject God’s love then the
Scripture is contradicting itself because when we reject God’s love we are actually
disappointing God and His love is not successful. Therefore God’s love is failing.
To resolve this contradiction we have to show or offer biblical proofs that human is not
truly a free moral agent. And there many scriptural proofs that humans are not a free
moral agent. The major proof is what happened at the Garden of Eden describes by many
theologians as ‘The Fall of Man”. After Adam and Eve ate of the forbidden fruit they
both died spiritually. They both became blind spiritually. They became God’s enemies
and Satan begin to have rule over them. In other words because of the “Fall” all
humankind became the slaves of sin and they are no longer free they were slaves of Satan
who is the present ruler of this world That is the reason why regeneration or being born
again is necessary because it is only after we are born again or we have receive the Holy
that our spiritual life will return. For as long as human has not experience new heavenly
birth he is not free. That is why Jesus has to die on the cross so that God can adopt us and
redeem us and free us from spiritual slavery. After the sin of Adam we become slaves and
no longer free moral agent. We are dead spiritually. We are spiritually blind and cannot
see Christ and have faith in Him. When we accept this teaching on “The Fall of Man
(Adam) we can reconcile this teaching on the biblical teaching that God’s love never
fails. And perhaps, we can also see and appreciate the “difficult and yet comforting”
teaching on election. As we embrace the biblical doctrine of election we will see that
God’s love is primarily directed to the elect-bride of Christ and that is the church
composed of people all over the world from all tribes and nation. God’s love is
covenantal love. This is a hard statement but God’s love is indeed selective. The Bible is
a story of God’s covenantal love with His chosen people. In the Old Testament God chose
the murmuring Israelites as the object of His covenant love based on physical promises
while the true Christian today is God’s covenant people in the New Testament. Why God
decided to love us? It is not because of us because of all us are rotten sinners. There is
nothing in us that God can love. But God decided to make us His temple and His
instrument in displaying His glory and His majesty. And God “according to the good
pleasure of His will” want us to be the object of His everlasting love through His Son
Jesus Christ. TO JESUS CHRIST BE ALL THE GLORY!

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