“God proves His love for us in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us.” Why does God have to prove His love to you, to any of us, or to any of our family members or friends? God is living and true. God is the very source and essence of love, an unquenchable fountain, unfathomable depth, overflowing glory. God is the origination of love, its originator. God is love’s continuation, the very existence of love extending love itself into all eternity. God is love, true love that pervades beauty and all that is beautiful, good, holy, and true. An unconditional love that lovingly overwhelms all, even those who may not feel so lovely or beautiful anymore. Scripture graciously informs us and honestly invites us to consider God’s love. To contemplate it, take to heart and prayer who God is and how He has already proven His goodness to all generations inviting us to not question but to trust in the boundless and limitless love, which remains inexhaustible and eternal. The Word of God says of love and of Himself, “Love is patient, love is kind… It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails.” Love draws its goodness and its pureness directly from God. Love derives from God, flows through Him, from Him and is itself like a stream of gentle water refreshing and renewing everything and everyone in its path. God is like light, gently, and quietly moving like the dawn bursting into daybreak into our hearts overflowing over everything. Love is true, good, beautiful and you. God’s love never fails. Then why must God prove His fidelity and covenant and faithfulness to you? Why must we continue to test God and ask Him to continue to prove His love for us and for all humanity? We might on occasion be requested or even challenged to prove our love, our response, a word of value or commitment to validate our love, our response to determine whether our oath is valid or true. Why? If our words were truly honest and sincerely from our heart, if our actions were consistent and truly willed the good of the other, if our yes was yes and our no was truly no, then chances would be great that we are considered creditable, believable, trustworthy, true. There would be no need to undergo a scrutiny, a challenge or test or need to defend, inflate, embellish, or stretch the truth. Love does not have to prove itself. God already has.
