Security in God's Unconditional Love

God's love is unconditional. It's not based on performance. It's not based on you measuring up. As human beings, we try to give unconditional love to other people, to our children, to our spouses. But we can't do it all the time because we're imperfect.  

When you say, "I love you if you love me" that's a condition -- conditional love. When you say, "I love you, if you'll marry me" that's conditional love. "I love you if you meet my needs" -- conditional love. Obviously when those needs stop being met, what happens? People divorce. People leave each other.  

Or when you say, "I love you because..." that's conditional love. "I love you because you make me feel good". What happens if they stop making you feel good? That's conditional love. "I love you because you're talented." What happens if tomorrow you meet somebody who's more talented? Do you leave them and go for somebody else? That's conditional love.  

But God says to you, "I love you period! No conditions. No qualifiers. Just in My grace." You don't ever have to ask, "I wonder if God's going to love me today? Did I pray enough? Did I do enough right things? Is God going to love me now because I had a quiet time?" His love is not conditioned upon your performance. 

There’s nothing you can do to make God love you any more and there’s nothing you can do to make Him love you any less. That's grace.

God says, in Christ, I am acceptable, I am valuable, and I am lovable. Even when I don't feel very lovely, He still loves me. His love is consistent. 

Anytime anything besides God is number one in our life, we're going to be plagued with insecurity. For genuine security in life, we have to have something that's number one in our life that cannot be taken away from us. If we base our security on how much money we've got, that can be taken away. If you base our security on our status and your image, that can be taken away. If we base our security in life on how good looking we are, I hate to tell you this, but you're going to lose your good looks.

If you base your security on your husband or your children or anybody else in life except Christ, you can lose all those things. You must have security in something that can never be taken from you. There's only one thing that fits that bill. A relationship with your creator God through His Son, Jesus Christ. That can never be taken from you. Then if you lose everything else, including your health, you still have your security.

Romans 15:13 says, "I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in him. Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit.”  

God wants to fill your life with confident hope. In Christ, you are worthwhile.