God's love is unconditional - or is it?

[sheila]

i AM CONVINCED THAT THE FULLNESS OF CHRIST..AND THE MATURITY........IS TIED UP WITH THIS SPIRIT[LOVE]

WITHOUT MEASURE...EVEN UNCONDITIONAL LOVE...IN TRUTH WITHOUT HYPOCRISY.   I THINK THAT IS WHAT

  THE CROSS IS.   i THINK 'FOR MY THOUGHTS ARE HIGHER THAN YOUR THOUGHTS' IS ALSO CONNECTED TO

THE FATHER'S AND SONS UNCONDITIONAL LOVE.....

[eaglesway]

Amen to that Sheila.

To Ref and Vine B,

It was not until I was FULLY ESTABLISHED in faith regarding the salvation of all that I found myself, for the first time really, experiencing glimpses of unconditional love.

I felt, (at times) and still do(at times) that God is looking through my eyes at people and I can feel His love for them, having never met or seen them before.

Riding on a subway or a bus or walking through a crowded station of on a crowded street- the light and the dark ,the low and the mighty- God loves them all.

What wonderful grace is obstructed between my ears sometimes. Thank God His throne is set within my heart, and Satan is being cast down as my whole temple is being recovered for the light- step by step the promised land is possessed.....day by day this lamp will shine more brightly, till the day dawns and the morning star arises in my heart.  :yes:

Once I was a raven scavenging for food
But I never gave birth to a vultures brood
For I turned into a sparrow
When I learned to trust in God
And as My heart filled up with love
I changed into a dove
Then an eagle I became
The heavenly realms were my domain
Now, all of these three am I
The sparrow, the dove and the eagle fly
Through the open window of my heart
A single eye.

[reFORMer]

Without the love of God, the world is a sad, lonely, cruel, pointless, painful experience. :sigh:

WITH "the love of God, the world is a sad, lonely, cruel, pointless, painful experience."

At the least you missed, "Insane."

Solomon says all is pointless, empty, worthless, everything is futility and vanity...vanity, all is vanity.  This is under the sun.

A new creation is emerging.  One that rejoices always.

[sheila]

 :thumbsup:  EW   really like the poem,too!    and Amen to the new creation Reformer

[micah7:9]

".....IS TIED UP WITH THIS SPIRIT[LOVE]...." Sheila
I see a great misunderstanding, we all confuse, spirit with breath and soul, what we all don't see is spirit as an entity, GOD IS SPIRIT. Spirit is more a substance than anything we could possibly even imagine. Spirit is more real of substance[or should be] than anything we have ever handled. I, imo, believe that we have no real idea that spirit is thicker, wider, higher, stronger, denser, than anything we have ever encountered. But we look at it as something mystical, when it is more real than anything we could speak of. GOD IS SPIRIT. I don't believe that Jesus, when He encounter disease or illness, even saw it's evidence until it was admitted, or He was told of it, or in the case of His virtue being deleted, for it just left Him; He was the kingdom of heaven a foot, He was what we long for, that's why He said, Oh ye of little faith, they didn't get it, they did not see yet. Peter and James experienced the power at the Gate Beautiful, and I believe they discussed that event, even though it is not written, wouldn't you? This was an energy at it's first offering.
Mar 4:39  And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
Mar 4:40  And he said unto them, Why are ye so fearful? how is it that ye have no faith?
Mar 4:41  And they feared exceedingly, and said one to another,

For HIM the wind did not exsist. No, we[myself included] have no real idea of realm we desire.

[eaglesway]

Amen Micah!

By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen(flesh) was not made out of things which are visible(was made of invisible material-spirit).
(Heb 11:3)

2Co 4:18  Since we consider and look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen; for the things that are visible are temporal (flesh), but the things that are invisible are deathless and everlasting(spirit).