Reformed with Love

For God So Loved The World

2007-07-30T19:59:00.000+07:00

God so loved the world, and He showed His love with sacrifices. He gave His only Son.
He punished His only Son for the world's sins. Love without sacrifices is a cheap love. But, love with God's sacrifice is a great love.
It's the most wonderful love that I've ever heard. The Creator died for His creations. He's showed what love is.

For God so loved the world,
He gave His only Son,
To die on Calv'ry's tree,
From sin to set me free;
Some day He's coming back -
What glory that will be!
Wonderful His love to me.

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life"

Taken from Heavenly Midis Songbook

Love Language: Service

2007-06-23T13:42:00.000+07:00

The category of "Service":

a. Being on the same side.
Love can be expressed by conveying to the other that we are for him or her. You must show loyalty and appreciation for your spouse before family and friends by treating him/her with respect, by standing up for him or her, and so on. See Swihart, pp. 59-64.

b. Bringing out the best.
Love can be expressed by seeking to develop the gifts and potential of the other person. We must, without an kind of competition, seek to recognize and use your spouse's abilities. See Swihart, pp. 65-70.

c. Growing together spiritually.
Love can be expressed by studying the Bible and praying together, by "stirring each other up to love and good works". See Wheat, pp. 148-150, "Touching--Spiritually".

d. Changing.
Love can be expressed through a willingness to change attitudes and behavior that annoys or weakens your spouse. There must be an ability to take correction and to be accountable for real concrete changes.

e. Allowing "space".
Love can be expressed by allowing your spouse privacy, either for brief or longer periods, depending on emotional needs. There can be no excuses for shutting one's spouse out of one's life, but different people have different capacities and needs for time alone or outside interests.

Taken from Love & Love Language by Tim Keller;
Ed Wheat, The Love Life.
Judson Swihart, How Do You Say, ‘I Love You’?

The First Love in the Bible

2007-05-30T16:06:00.000+07:00

What do I mean the first love in the Bible is the first 'love word' in the Bible. It's in Genesis 22:2. It's not a romantic love. It's a painful love, wasn't it?

He said, "Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you."
Gen 22:2, ESV
The first love in the Bible told us about sacrifice. Abraham must kill his one and only son and gave Isaac as a living sacrifice. It didn't happen, but it taught us that the first love was near with sacrifice.
And God, the Father has shown us His love to us when He has given His one and only Son, Jesus Christ to be the Savior of our sins. With love, Jesus has sacrificed himself.
The first love shown the real first love... God loves you..

Arthur Pink: The Love of God

2007-05-29T14:26:00.000+07:00

I found a great exposition about the love of God from Arthur Pink. Hopefully you would enjoy the blessings too.

There are three things told us in Scripture concerning the nature of God. First, "God is spirit" (John 4:24). In the Greek there is no indefinite article, and to say "God is a spirit" is most objectionable, for it places Him in a class with others. God is "spirit" in the highest sense. Because He is "spirit" He is incorporeal, having no visible substance. Had God a tangible body, He would not be omnipresent, He would be limited to one place; because He is spirit He fills heaven and earth. Second, God is light (1 John 1:5), which is the opposite of "darkness." In Scripture "darkness" stands for sin, evil, death; and "light" for holiness, goodness, life. God is light, means that He is the sum of all excellency. Third, "God is love" (1 John 4:8). It is not simply that God "loves," but that He is Love itself. Love is not merely one of His attributes, but His very nature.

There are many today who talk about the love of God, who are total strangers to the God of love. The Divine love is commonly regarded as a species of amiable weakness, a sort of good-natured indulgence; it is reduced to a mere sickly sentiment, patterned after human emotion. Now the truth is that on this, as on everything else, our thoughts need to be formed and regulated by what is revealed thereon in Holy Scripture. That there is urgent need for this is apparent not only from the ignorance which so generally prevails, but also from the low state of spirituality which is now so sadly evident everywhere among professing Christians. How little real love there is for God. One chief reason for this is because our hearts are so little occupied with His wondrous love for His people. The better we are acquainted with His love—its character, fullness, blessedness—the more will our hearts be drawn out in love to Him.

1. The love of God is uninfluenced. By this we mean, there was nothing whatever in the objects of His love to call it into exercise, nothing in the creature to attract or prompt it. The love which one creature has for another is because of something in them; but the love of God is free, spontaneous, uncaused. The only reason why God loves any is found in His own sovereign will: "The Lord did not set His love upon you, nor choose you because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people: but because the Lord loved thee" (Deut. 7:7,8). God has loved His people from everlasting, and therefore nothing of the creature can be the cause of what is found in God from eternity. He loves from Himself: "according to His own purpose" (2 Tim. 1:9).

"We love Him, because He first loved us" (1 John 4:19). God did not love us because we loved Him, but He loved us before we had a particle of love for Him. Had God loved us in return for ours, then it would not be spontaneous on His part; but because He loved us when we were loveless, it is clear that His love was uninfluenced. It is highly important if God is to be honored and the heart of His child established, that we should be quite clear upon this precious truth. God’s love for me, and for each of "His own," was entirely unmoved by anything in them. What was there in me to attract the heart of God? Absolutely nothing. But, to the contrary, everything to repel Him, everything calculated to make Him loathe me—sinful, depraved, a mass of corruption, with "no good thing" in me.

"What was there in me that could merit esteem,
Or give the Creator delight?
‘Twas even so, Father, I ever must sing,
Because it seemed good, in Thy sight."

2. It is eternal. This of necessity. God Himself is eternal, and God is love; therefore, as God Himself had no beginning, His love had none. Granted that such a concept far transcends the grasp of our feeble minds, nevertheless, where we cannot comprehend, we can bow in adoring worship. How clear is the testimony of Jeremiah 31:3, "I have loved thee with an everlasting love, therefore with loving-kindness have I drawn thee." How blessed to know that the great and holy God loved His people before heaven and earth were called into existence, that He had set His heart upon them from all eternity. Clear proof is this that His love is spontaneous, for He loved them endless ages before they had any being.

The same precious truth is set forth in Ephesians 1:4,5, "According as He hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him. In love having predestinated us." What praise should this evoke from each of His children! How tranquilizing for the heart: since God’s love toward me had no beginning, it can have no ending! Since it be true that "from everlasting to everlasting" He is God, and since God is "love," then it is equally true that "from everlasting to everlasting" He loves His people.

3. It is sovereign. This also is self-evident. God Himself is sovereign, under obligations to none, a law unto Himself, acting always according to His own imperial pleasure. Since God be sovereign, and since He be love, it necessarily follows that His love is sovereign. Because God is God, He does as He pleases; because God is love, He loves whom He pleases. Such is His own express affirmation: "Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated" (Rom. 9:19). There was no more reason in Jacob why he should be the object of Divine love, than there was in Esau. They both had the same parents, and were born at the same time, being twins; yet God loved the one and hated the other! Why? Because it pleased Him to do so.

The sovereignty of God’s love necessarily follows from the fact that it is uninfluenced by anything in the creature. Thus, to affirm that the cause of His love lies in God Himself, is only another way of saying, He loves whom He pleases. For a moment, assume the opposite. Suppose God’s love were regulated by anything else than His will, in such a case He would love by rule, and loving by rule He would be under a law of love, and then so far from being free, God would Himself be ruled by law. "In love having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to"—what? Some excellency which He foresaw in them? No; what then? "According to the good pleasure of His will" (Eph. 1:4,5).

4. It is infinite. Everything about God is infinite. His essence fills heaven and earth. His wisdom is illimitable, for He knows everything of the past, present and future. His power is unbounded, for there is nothing too hard for Him. So His love is without limit. There is a depth to it which none can fathom; there is a height to it which none can scale; there is a length and breadth to it which defies measurement, by any creature-standard. Beautifully is this intimated in Ephesians 2:4: But God, who is rich in mercy, for His great love wherewith He loved us: the word "great" there is parallel with the "God so loved" of John 3:16. It tells us that the love of God is so transcendent it cannot be estimated.

No tongue can fully express the infinitude of God’s love, or any mind comprehend it: it "passeth knowledge" Eph. 3:19). The most extensive ideas that a finite mind can frame about Divine love, are infinitely below its true nature. The heaven is not so far above the earth as the goodness of God is beyond the most raised conceptions which we are able to form of it. It is an ocean which swells higher than all the mountains of opposition in such as are the objects of it. It is a fountain from which flows all necessary good to all those who are interested in it (John Brine, 1743).

5. It is immutable. As with God Himself there is "no variableness, neither shadow of turning" (James 1:17), so His love knows neither change or diminution. The worm Jacob supplies a forceful example of this: "Jacob have I loved," declared Jehovah, and despite all his unbelief and waywardness, He never ceased to love him. John 13:1 furnishes another beautiful illustration. That very night one of the apostles would say, "Show us the Father"; another would deny Him with cursings; all of them would be scandalized by and forsake Him. Nevertheless "having loved His own which were in the world, He love them unto the end." The Divine love is subject to no vicissitudes. Divine love is "strong as death ... many waters cannot quench it" (Song of Sol. 8:6,7). Nothing can separate from it: Romans 8:35-39.

"His love no end nor measure knows,
No change can turn its course,
Eternally the same it flows
From one eternal source."

6. It is holy. God’s love is not regulated by caprice passion, or sentiment, but by principle. Just as His grace reigns not at the expense of it, but "through righteousness" (Rom. 5:21), so His love never conflicts with His holiness. "God is light" (1 John 1:5) is mentioned before "God is love" (1 John 4:8). God’s love is no mere amiable weakness, or effeminate softness. Scripture declares, "whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom He receiveth" (Heb. 12:6). God will not wink at sin, even in His own people. His love is pure, unmixed with any maudlin sentimentality.

7. It is gracious. The love and favor of God are inseparable. This is clearly brought out in Romans 8:32-39. What that love is from which there can be no "separation," is easily perceived from the design and scope of the immediate context: it is that goodwill and grace of God which determined Him to give His Son for sinners. That love was the impulsive power of Christ’s incarnation: "God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son" (John 3:16). Christ died not in order to make God love us, but because He did love His people, Calvary is the supreme demonstration of Divine love. Whenever you are tempted to doubt the love of God, Christian reader, go back to Calvary.

Here then is abundant cause for trust and patience under Divine affliction. Christ was beloved of the Father, yet He was not exempted from poverty, disgrace, and persecution. He hungered and thirsted. Thus, it was not incompatible with God’s love for Christ when He permitted men to spit upon and smite Him. Then let no Christian call into question God’s love when he is brought under painful afflictions and trials. God did not enrich Christ on earth with temporal prosperity, for "He had not where to lay His head." But He did give Him the Spirit "without measure" (John 3:34). Learn then that spiritual blessings are the principal gifts of Divine love. How blessed to know that when the world hates us ,God loves us!

Taken from http://www.pbministries.org/books/pink/Attributes/attrib_15.htm

Too much love in this world!?

2007-05-29T14:10:00.000+07:00

Someone visited this blog and gave the review that 'too many sites that talk about love.' Of course..! But, what kind of love they wrote and shared?

Does it mean too much love in this world or people really hunger for the true love, but they couldn't find it.

I think the second part is true. Many people are looking for the real and true love. Many people talk about love, but they've never knew about the real and the true love. Only in Jesus Christ we found the real and true love..
In Christ, you will see the abundant love and you will satisfy with His love..

What kind of love that you need?

2007-05-28T13:57:00.000+07:00

Have you ever thought about the love that all you need? What kind of love that all you need?
The Eros love? Romantic love? The love from family and friends? Or what kind of love that all you need?
Sometimes we think about the wrong love that all we need. And we never realize the primary love that all we need. We should know that God's Love is all we need.

HIS LOVE IS ALL I NEED
Words & Music: Edwin O. Excell, 1908

The love of Jesus, who can tell,
Tho’ he may know it, oh, so well?
The love that ev’ry want supplies,
The love that always satisfies;
His love is all I need!

Refrain

So wonderful, His love to me!
More wonderful how could it be?
My ev’ry sin on Him was laid;
My ev’ry debt by Him was paid;
His love is all I need!

The love of Jesus, oh, what bliss,
To hear Him whisper, I am His!
Tho’ I may falter on the way,
He will not let me go astray;
His love is all I need!

Refrain

The love of Jesus, oh, how sweet,
To hide in such a safe retreat!
Tho’ Satan would my hopes destroy,
My Savior’s love is still my joy;
His love is all I need!

Refrain

Taken from The Cyber Hymnal

When you think about love...

2007-05-25T15:28:00.000+07:00

When you think about love, what is the first thing in your mind?

Is it a definition about love?
Or your spouse?
Or some lovely person?
Or a BIG Heart?
Or....? What?

For me, I see The Crucified Christ on the Cross.

Love Language: Friendship

2007-05-23T13:37:00.000+07:00

The category of "Friendship":

a. Spending time together.
Love can be expressed by spending "quality" time together. That means 1)doing something you both enjoy doing and 2) doing something that enables you to communicate while doing it. Doing (especially) relaxing activity together is quite important. Doing common work tasks bonds you together, but provides less communication. Above all, show your spouse that time with him or her has priority in your life. See Swihart, pp. 35-40.

b. Sharing worlds and responsibilities.
Love can be expressed through showing supportive loyalty for, as well as interest and pride in, the work worlds of your spouse. The man must show the same support and help for the woman in her responsibilities as she must in his. It may entail the man changing diapers or helping with the sweeping without being asked. See Wheat, pp. 187-190, "A Creative View of Sharing". See Swihart, pp. 27-34.

c. Becoming of one mind.
Love can be expressed by sharing each others' mental world. Reading books together (even aloud), discussing changes in one's thinking, studying a subject together--all these are included. The couple must develop a "practical oneness" about their lifestyle and philosophy of childrearing, and so on.

d. Creating a climate of trust.
Love can be expressed through both listening and opening up to the other. Friendship is above all a relationship in which it is safe to share fears, hurts, and weaknesses--an emotional refuge. Listening takes concentration. Some people are good at listening but not at opening up themselves, and vica versa. Trust is also built by following through on commitments, being reliable. See Wheat, pp. 96-117, "The Gift of Belonging". See Swihart, pp. 41-48.

Taken from Love & Love Language by Tim Keller;
Ed Wheat, The Love Life.
Judson Swihart, How Do You Say, ‘I Love You’?

Love Language: Affection

2007-05-23T13:28:00.000+07:00

The category of "Affection" or "Romance":

a. Touching.
Love can be expressed through physical contact. Eye contact, caresses, sitting near closely together, holding hands. This must not be done simply as preparation for sex or it loses its integrity as a way of showing affection. See Wheat, pp. 184-187, "Twenty-Five Suggestions for Touching". See Swihart, pp. 55-58.

b. Creating loving climates.
Love can be expressed through creatively finding situations which make focused attention easier. Walks, fireplaces, drives, picnics--making efforts to arrange these are important. Also, we can work on our own personal appearance as a gift to our spouse. Playfulness and fun are part creating romantic climates as well. See Wheat, pp. 84-95, "Romantic Love--The Thrill Factor".

c. Edifying and Blessing.
Love can be expressed verbally by expressing our love in strong, personal, accurate, and fresh ways. We must also find the strengths and gifts of our partner and communicate honest praise, appreciation, and thankfulness for him/her. This means refraining from harsh, critical words. We do all of this through words, notes, cards, thoughtful expressions on anniversaries, etc. See Wheat, pp. 190-191, "Nine Ways to Edify". See Swihart, pp. 49-54.

d. Giving gifts.
Love can be expressed through (often surprise) thoughtful, personal, useful gifts. Personal growth gifts (books, tape, records) personal comfort gifts (tools, appliances, etc.) See Swihart, pp. 19-26.

Taken from Love & Love Language by Tim Keller;
Ed Wheat, The Love Life.
Judson Swihart, How Do You Say, ‘I Love You’?

Love Language

2007-05-23T13:20:00.000+07:00

There are many different ways to express love. You can buy a present, say "I love you" out loud, be romantic and tender physically, abide by your loved one's wishes, and so on. For centuries, thinkers have discerned forms of love: affection (storge), friendship (phileo), erotic love (eros), and service (agape).

All of these forms of love are necessary, and none are to be ignored, but all of us find some forms of love to be more "emotionally valuable" to us. They are a “currency” that we find more precious, that delivers the message of love to our hearts with the most power. In other words, some types of love are more thrilling and fulfilling to us when we receive them. Why? a) Sometimes a particular “language” is more valuable because some significant person (in your family, or your present spouse) was particularly inept at it. b) Sometimes a particular “language” is more valuable because some significant person was particularly adept at it. So now, that is how your heart is convinced that someone values you.

Taken from Love & Love Language by Tim Keller

Is there any Steadfast Love anymore?

2007-05-23T10:14:00.000+07:00

In this sinful world, is there any steadfast love? The steadfast love is only for the lovers who never see the reality. People say that there's no steadfast love. Or in our current term is 'forever' love.
Does it mean there's no forever love at all?I agree! There's no forever love for sinners.

But, there is the steadfast love.
The steadfast love is from God to His chosen people. It's forever. No matter how sinful we are.
So, it should be a steadfast love from human to God and from human to human, shouldn't it?

But I have trusted in your steadfast love; my heart shall rejoice in your salvation.

Is Love blind?

2007-05-21T12:00:00.000+07:00

We've heard many times that "love is blind" and we should agree it. According to our experiences and we've seen people's experiences, love is truly blind. Science has proven that love is blind (BBC NEWS: Love is Blind). But, is the true love blind?

Can people say to God, "I love you" but they've never knew HIM? Yes, they can! But, what kind of love that they have? Is it true love, or blind love?
.
The origin of 'Love is Blind' was from Shakespeare's The Merchant Of Venice.

JESSICA: Here, catch this casket; it is worth the pains.
I am glad 'tis night, you do not look on me,
For I am much ashamed of my exchange:
But love is blind and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit;
For if they could, Cupid himself would blush
To see me thus transformed to a boy.

The false love makes people cannot see. That's why they're falling in love.
But the true love makes people standing with love, seeing the truth and rejoices with it.

Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth

There's love when nothing else could help

2007-05-20T20:01:00.000+07:00

Are You sinking deep in sin and far from the peaceful shore? Who could help you?
Maybe you've thought many things could help you, but they couldn't. And now there's nothing else could help you?!

Wait a minute..
Have you ever heard James Rowe words? Check it out and find who could help you..

Love Lifted Me

I was sinking deep in sin, far from the peaceful shore,
Very deeply stained within, sinking to rise no more,
But the Master of the sea, heard my despairing cry,
From the waters lifted me, now safe am I.

Refrain

Love lifted me! Love lifted me!
When nothing else could help
Love lifted me!

All my heart to Him I give, ever to Him I’ll cling
In His blessèd presence live, ever His praises sing,
Love so mighty and so true, merits my soul’s best songs,
Faithful, loving service too, to Him belongs.

Refrain

Souls in danger look above, Jesus completely saves,
He will lift you by His love, out of the angry waves.
He’s the Master of the sea, billows His will obey,
He your Savior wants to be, be saved today.

Refrain

James Rowe, 1912
Wanna hear the song? Click Here

I Want to Know What Love Is

2007-05-16T07:45:00.000+07:00

I Want to Know What Love Is is a power ballad recorded by the British-American rock band Foreigner. Written by Mick Jones. More info about the song: Wikipedia.

I wanna know what love is
I want you to show me
I wanna feel what love is
I know you can show me

This song is a man's journey for love. Everyone needs an everlasting love. But, man can't give an everlasting love. So, we will never satisfy with man's love.
There'll be a question in our mind, "What is love?, I really want to know, to feel and hopefully you can show me"

Sometimes we think that we knew it, than we don't understand it. Sometimes we feel it, then hate replace it in our feeling. Because we only find a temporary love.
I want to know what love is..
Can you show me?

My Jesus, I Love Thee

2007-05-14T08:15:00.000+07:00

Whom do you love most? Your spouse? Your parents? Your children? Your money? ... (Fill in the blank with your lovely ones!)

As for me, there's only one I do love most, Jesus Christ. The redeemer, my Lord and my Savior. He has first loved me, that's why I could love Him.

I'll love Him in life and in death. 'Til everlasting life I'll always adore Him.

If ever I loved Him, It is now.

I remember the hymn about it. My Jesus, I Love Thee.

My Jesus, I love Thee, I know Thou art mine;
For Thee all the follies of sin I resign.
My gracious Redeemer, my Savior art Thou;
If ever I loved Thee, my Jesus, ’tis now.

I love Thee because Thou has first loved me,
And purchased my pardon on Calvary’s tree.
I love Thee for wearing the thorns on Thy brow;
If ever I loved Thee, my Jesus, ’tis now.

I’ll love Thee in life, I will love Thee in death,
And praise Thee as long as Thou lendest me breath;
And say when the death dew lies cold on my brow,
If ever I loved Thee, my Jesus, ’tis now.

In mansions of glory and endless delight,
I’ll ever adore Thee in heaven so bright;
I’ll sing with the glittering crown on my brow;
If ever I loved Thee, my Jesus, ’tis now.

Words by William R. Featherston
Taken from Heavely Midis Songbook

A True Love of God (Jonathan Edwards)

2007-05-13T17:47:00.000+07:00

A true love of God must begin with a delight in his holiness,
and not with a delight in any other attribute;
for no other attribute is truly lovely without this.

Jonathan Edwards

Ministers of Love

2007-05-12T12:50:00.000+07:00

by Richard Baxter
(from "What Light Must Shine in Our Works?")

The dominion of love in the hearts of Christians, appearing in all the course of their lives, doth much glorify God and their religion.—I mean a common hearty love to all men, and a special love to holy men, according to their various degrees of loveliness. Love is a thing so agreeable to right reason, and to sociable nature, and to the common interest of all mankind, that all men commend it; and they that have it not for others, would have it from others. Who is it that loveth not to be loved? And who is it that loveth not the man that he is convinced loveth him, better than him that hateth him, or regardeth him not? And do you think that the same course, which maketh men hate yourselves, is like to make them love your religion?

Love is the powerful conqueror of the world. By it God conquereth the enmity of man, and reconcileth to himself even malignant sinners; and by it he hath taught us to conquer all the tribulations and persecutions by which the world would separate us from his love; yea, and to be "more than conquerors through Him that loved us," and thereby did kindle in us our reflecting love; (Rom. 8:34-38;) and by it he hath instructed us to go on to conquer both his enemies and our own; yea, to conquer the enmity rather than the enemy, in imitation of himself, who saveth the sinner, and kills the sin; and this is the most noble kind of victory. Every soldier can end a fever or other disease by cutting a man's throat, and ending his life; but it is the work of the physician to kill the disease, and save the man. The scandalous pastor is for curing heresy in the Roman way, by silencing sound preachers, and tormenting and burning the supposed heretics; or at least to trust for the acceptance and success of his labours to the sword. And if that which will restrain men from crossing the pastor, would restrain them from resisting the Spirit of God, and constrain them to the love of holiness, it were well; then the glory of conversion should be more ascribed to the magistrate and soldier than to the preacher.

Interesting? Just go to http://www.puritansermons.com/baxter/baxter20.htm
to read more..

Does your God truly love you?

2007-05-11T08:53:00.000+07:00

Does your God truly love you? Whatever you have done from the past until now and whatever you will do, does He and will He still love you?
When your soul are weary, could you see God's love?
When you fight the pain and sickness, could you see the joy from God's love?
Even though you face the death, you should see God's love!?

I remember one song that sing about Love that will not let me go...

O Love that wilt not let me go

O Love that wilt not let me go,
I rest my weary soul in thee;
I give thee back the life I owe,
That in thine ocean depths its flow
May richer, fuller be.

O light that followest all my way,
I yield my flickering torch to thee;
My heart restores its borrowed ray,
That in thy sunshine’s blaze its day
May brighter, fairer be.

O Joy that seekest me through pain,
I cannot close my heart to thee;
I trace the rainbow through the rain,
And feel the promise is not vain,
That morn shall tearless be.

O Cross that liftest up my head,
I dare not ask to fly from thee;
I lay in dust life’s glory dead,
And from the ground there blossoms red
Life that shall endless be.

George Matheson
in the Church of Scotland magazine Life and Work,
January 1882.

The song taken from The Cyber Hymnal

Does God love everyone exactly the same way?

2007-05-10T10:00:00.000+07:00

Does God love everyone exactly the same way?
I just think that many people ask the same question..
For me there are two answers, Yes and No!

Yes, God loves everyone exactly the same way in the domain of providence. God sends his sunshine and his rain upon the just and the unjust alike. He gives blessings to all the people, good or bad.

But, No, it's not true in the domain of salvation/election. God chose us in Jesus Christ before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. And it's not for everyone. It's for some people only.

The love of God is more complex than we've ever thought..

How deep is your Love?

2007-05-09T20:38:00.001+07:00

Do you think you are a lovely person?
Do you know how deep is your love?
Do you know the deepest love that you could imagine?
I'm thinking about it.
And guess what!? I still don't understand how deep is my love..
What about God's love?
I just hope and pray the same pray that I read
and of course this is my pray for you too:

And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge-- that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

The Love of God

2007-05-08T11:16:00.000+07:00

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

The love of God is greater far
Than tongue or pen can ever tell;
It goes beyond the highest star,
And reaches to the lowest hell;
The guilty pair, bowed down with care,
God gave His Son to win;
His erring child He reconciled,
And pardoned from his sin.

Refrain
O love of God, how rich and pure!
How measureless and strong!
It shall forevermore endure
The saints’ and angels’ song.

When years of time shall pass away,
And earthly thrones and kingdoms fall,
When men, who here refuse to pray,
On rocks and hills and mountains call,
God’s love so sure, shall still endure,
All measureless and strong;
Redeeming grace to Adam’s race—
The saints’ and angels’ song.

Could we with ink the ocean fill,
And were the skies of parchment made,
Were every stalk on earth a quill,
And every man a scribe by trade,
To write the love of God above,
Would drain the ocean dry.
Nor could the scroll contain the whole,
Though stretched from sky to sky.

(Frederick M. Lehman, 1917)

Agape

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The Greek word "Agape" means love. So what kind of love is Agape? Agape is from God, and God alone. There is no natural agape within any man.
Agape, therefore, must be a supernaturally implanted characteristic if found within any man for it says that agape is "of God".
Agape is eternal and totally independent of the object of its favor.
Agape is an affection which stands in spite of any element of attractiveness, desirability, or even value. It also can be hated by the object of its affection, without damaging its intensity or character.
Agape can love while being hated.

Taken from Monergism on Love

What is love?

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Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking,
it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.

The Power of Love

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Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm;
for love is as strong as death, its jealously unyielding as the grave.
It burns like a blazing fire, like a mighty flame.
Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot wash it away.
If one were to give all the wealth of his house for love,
it would be utterly scorned.

The fourth degree of Love

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God has made all for His own glory (Isa. 43:7), so that man should not even love self save for God’s sake.
To reach this state is to become godlike. As a drop of water poured into wine loses itself, and takes the color and savor of wine; or as a bar of iron, heated red-hot, becomes like fire itself, forgetting its own nature; or as the air, radiant with sun-beams, seems not so much to be illuminated as to be light itself; so in the saints all human affections melt away by some unspeakable transmutation into the will of God.

(Bernard of Clairvaux, On Loving God Ch. 10)

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The second and third degrees of love

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The second degree of love, is no longer do we love God because of our necessity, but because we have tasted and seen how gracious the Lord is. As the Samaritans told the woman who announced that it was Christ who was at the well: ‘Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard Him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the savior of the world’ (John 4:42)

The third degree of love, is to love God on His own account, solely because He is God. Whosoever praises God for His essential goodness, and not merely because of the benefits He has bestowed, does really love God for God’s sake, and not selfishly.

(Bernard of Clairvaux, On Loving God Ch. 9)

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First degree of love: man loves God for self’s sake

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This is the first and the natural love of man.
Man loves himself first and selfishly, as it is written, ‘That was not first which is spiritual but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual’ (I Cor. 15:46). This is not as the precept ordains but as nature directs: ‘No man ever yet hated his own flesh’ (Eph. 5:29).
(Bernard of Clairvaux, On Loving God Ch. 8)

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The Great Commandment

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And he said to him,
"You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment.
And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

The New Commandment

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This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.