When the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. (1 Corinthians 13:10)
In this life, our ability to understand God’s perfect, complete love for us is limited by our perception of reality. His love is unlike our idea of completeness or perfection that can be undone, broken, or changed. God’s love cannot and will not change. It is complete and perfect now and forever.
However, life has a way of clouding our understanding of God’s love for us through our circumstances. We all go through things that can at times make us question God’s love for us and make us feel like He’s turned His back on us.
On your best day, God doesn’t love you anymore, and on your worst day, He doesn’t love you any less. His love is stable.
The truth is, God can never love you more than He does right now. There is nothing you can do or that you have to do to earn His love or to receive more of it. In the same way, there is nothing you can do to make God love you any less.
God will always send someone to challenge the lies the enemy and circumstance to make us believe.
In the book of Ruth, after Naomi’s husband died, and then her sons too, she was sure the Lord had turned against her. She feared for her future and eventually gave in to her emotions, which was reflected in the new name she gave herself when she returned to Bethlehem – Mara which means bitter.
God used Ruth to un-cloud Naomi’s understanding of His love for her. Ruth helped her see that even in the worst of times when life (not God) had dealt her a bitter hand, God’s love for her did not change. The love and kindness Ruth showed Naomi helped her recognize the lies her circumstances had caused her to believe.
Because you are His daughter, whenever God’s love is put on trial by the issues of life, and it seems He is guilty of not loving you perfectly, He will send someone to help you recognize His perfect love for you. Naomi almost rejected Ruth, the one the Lord sent to her. Later, she was thankful she chose to let Ruth go with her.
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