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What is God's love? Love is the heart of God. God's love issues out of His heart. Righteousness is the way of God, holiness is the nature of God, glory is the expression of God, and love is the heart of God. After speaking of God's righteousness, holiness, and glory, Paul brings us into God's heart of love. Why has God demonstrated His righteousness? Because man was fallen. Man was wrong with God and needed His righteousness. Why must God exercise His holiness? Because man is common. God must sanctify all of His common, chosen ones. Why must God give us His glory? Because all His chosen ones are low, mean, and vile. Hence, He must exercise His glory to transfigure us. But what was in God's heart originally? Love. Before God exercised His righteousness, holiness, and glory He loved us. Love was the fountain, love was the root, and love was the source of it all.
God loved us before He predestinated us, He loved us before He called us, He loved us before He justified us, and He loved us before He glorified us. Before everything and anything else He loved us. Our salvation originated with the love of God. Love is the source of all that God does for us, and this love is His heart. Therefore, after God's salvation has been fully accomplished, His love remains our security. The love of God is not only the source of our salvation, it is the security of our salvation.
I thank You today, Father God, that I am secure in Your love. Your love is truly wonderful because it is just You. Though I cannot fully understand it, I surely enjoy that it flows from Your heart into me. Amen.