Amazing Love
The Love We Were Created For
God created us to be loved and to love. “We love because He first loved us” (1 John 4:19). As a child, I searched for love—from my parents, my family, and my friends. Yet the love I experienced always felt incomplete, as though something essential was missing. No matter how much I received, it never fully satisfied, and I found myself continually chasing more.
This brokenness ran both ways. When I tried to love others unconditionally, in the way I believed love was meant to be, I fell short—and they did too. Beneath it all was a deeper truth: the love I longed for, and the love I tried to give, could not fulfill what I expected.
Over time, I accepted this flawed and tangled version of love as normal. I reduced what was sacred to a human level, where sin and imperfection reign. Love became conditional, inconsistent, and fleeting. We began to say we “love” our car, our job, our money—placing sacred language on disposable things.
But then I was saved, and Jesus entered my life—and He showed me love. Not the kind of love I thought I knew, but love as it truly is. “God demonstrates His own love for us in this: while we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8). In experiencing His love, I realized I had never truly known love at all.
Jesus showed me what real love is—the kind beyond anything my natural self could produce. It was pure and overflowing, the love I longed for the world to know. I understood that this could only happen if I allowed Jesus to fill me completely, letting His love flow through me.
We were created to be loved by God and sustained by His eternal love. “Abide in My love” (John 15:9). We were never meant to find life in the love of others, but to abide in God’s love and let that love flow outward.
The love humans produce on their own is only a residue—a remnant of being created in God’s image. Though given by God’s grace, it is weakened by sin, selfishness, and pride.
If God’s love is water, we are cracked vessels with only a few remaining drops. Sin causes whatever love we have to leak away. When we try to love from emptiness, love becomes conditional—because both sides are seeking to be filled. But only God can fill what is empty.
This emptiness causes envy, pride, and impatience—traits that stand in direct opposition to love. “Love is patient, love is kind… it is not proud” (1 Corinthians 13:4).
God’s love cannot be fully captured in words, but it is truly amazing. Jesus’ love is unconditional because God lacks nothing. Many believe God’s love is conditional, but Scripture tells us, “There is no fear in love. Perfect love drives out fear” (1 John 4:18).
Obedience is not the price of love—it is the fruit of it. When hearts are filled with love, holiness follows naturally.
God’s love is patient, merciful, and self-giving. It corrects, heals, protects, and refines. “Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends” (John 15:13).
As a Christian, I have tasted the love of Jesus, but I have not yet fully grasped its depth. When we are young in faith, we are like infants—unable to hold the fullness of His love. But as we grow, deny ourselves, and seek Him, His love begins to overflow.
God’s love is not meant to stop with us—it is meant to flow through us. When we are filled with His love, it pours out in our words, actions, and relationships. This world is desperate for that kind of love. And only when Jesus fills us completely can we love as He loves.
