Love of Christ

Galatians 2:20 NKJV
I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

As someone who sits in church weekly or more it is easy to declare our love for our Father God and our Lord Jesus. We sing praises to God. We give thanks for what our Lord did for us at the cross. We are filled with thanksgiving and shout out our love for Him.

But do we understand the love He has for us? Do we truly know who we are in Christ?

Do we busy ourselves trying to please God by doing what we think He needs to have done? Bible studies? Feeding the poor? Visiting the sick? Teaching new believers?

All are good and necessary as the Lord leads us. And yet we often create godly work out of our own understanding instead of from the leading of the Holy Spirit.

We hear about returning to our first love and think it has to do with loving God. Does it? Or is it about us returning to being loved by Him?

We live in the age of grace. No longer are we under judgment. No longer are we required to do something to get and maintain His love.

God's love is unmerited. His favor is upon us. Because we are in Christ as Christ is in us. Our Father God sees His son Jesus when He looks at us. He sees perfection. He sees Holy. He sees righteousness.

And the Father's love is unconditional. Nothing we do can ever take it away. His mercies are new every morning and His grace is forever.