The Revelation of God’s Unconditional
Love To speak of God’s unconditional love is to utter a wonderful fact about God’s nature. He loves because He chooses to love and for no other reason. His love is not dependent upon finding something in us that merits His love. His love is without conditions — it is unconditional. This kind of love is expressed in the Lord’s words to Israel: 7 “The LORD did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for you were the least of all peoples; 8 but because the LORD loves you . . .” (Deut. 7:78). In other words, God loves because He chooses to love, not because of a reason found outside of Himself. God’s unconditional love is revealed throughout the Old and New Testaments, but in no other place in the Bible do we see the unconditional nature of His love as in the book of Hosea. When we touch this book, we sense that we are treading ground that we have never trod before. We see God’s unconditional love coming to the least likely object of love — an object that does not merit or deserve love by any human standard. As we look into the book of Hosea, may the Lord by His Spirit give us a fresh revelation of God’s unconditional love.
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