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God’s love is a supernatural and personal love. It is only dependent upon God and according to Nancy God’s love is Agape; pure and divine Love.

To assure our acceptability to a righteous God our awesome God made the supreme sacrifice of his only begotten son. Eons before God asked Abraham to make that ultimate sacrifice of his son Isaac. An angel intervened and a ram was provided as a substitute; prophetic of the Lamb of God being crucified.

Romans 5:8, “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”

John 3:16, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

Both John 3:16 and Romans 5:8 are a daily reminder of God’s longsuffering and merciful love for “such a sinner as I.”

According to Nancy there are many reasons why God’s love is so important in our lives.

Having God’s Love in our lives is the whole meaning and purpose of our Christian walk and is the only way others will know and see that we walk the talk as true Christians. Loving with God’s Love proves we are abiding in God and demonstrates that we are filled with the “fulness of God.” Nancy also talks to God’s Love as the perfect “bond of union,” between God and/or others and myself.

We are told by Jesus to love our enemies .Luke 6:27-28, “But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you, Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you.”

This is a very difficult commandment for me to internalize in these days of ever increasing evil. I keep reminding myself that the Islamic terrorists are humans in need of salvation. I support Israel and the Jewish people and the unconditional covenants they have with God. It is so easy to love God’s chosen people, however, it is very difficult to love those who obsess about eradicating Israel. To the terrorists Israel represents the little Satan and the United States is the great Satan. Perhaps by the time this course is finished I will have some of God’s love leaking out of me towards those who would happily cut off my head for my support of Israel.