10 Things We Get Wrong About the Love of God

by Sam Storms

1. God’s love is not something God owes us.

God is sovereign in his decision either to bestow his love or withhold it.

2. God’s love is not uniform or monolithic.

God’s love as manifested in common grace is his love as Creator which consists of providential kindness, mercy, and longsuffering. It is an indiscriminate and universal, received and experienced by the elect and non-elect alike (see Matt. 5:43–48; Luke 6:27–38).

God’s love as manifested in special grace is the love of God as Savior, which consists of redemption, the efficacy of regenerating grace, and the irrevocable possession of eternal life, is received and experienced by the elect only.

3. God’s love does not mean that everyone will eventually be saved.

God has the sovereign freedom to love some in saving power but not all. Those who depart this life unsaved are not treated unfairly but in accord with perfect justice.

4. God’s love was not secured by the death of Jesus Christ.

God does not love people because Christ died for them; Christ died for them because God loved them.

5. God’s love was not the result of his foreknowledge of us loving him.

There was nothing in us that constrained God to set his saving love upon us. (see Rom. 8:29).

6. God’s love did not arise in his heart only after and upon observing the free will faith of men and women.

God’s saving love is eternal. (Eph. 1:4–5) He chose us in Christ and predestined us unto adoption as sons (cf. 2 Thess. 2:13).

7. God’s love will never be revoked or overturned.

It is not only eternal in its conception but also irrevocable in its purpose. (Rom. 8:35).

8. God’s love does not mean he will always spare us from suffering and never impose painful discipline when we sin.

Scripture is clear that discipline, is a product of divine love. (Heb. 12:5–6).

9. God’s love is not restricted to the saving of sinners.

God’s love secures its end to the degree that we who are its objects cease to fear the day of judgment

10. God’s love for himself is neither selfish nor inconsistent with his love for us.

Our glad-hearted passion for God is exceeded only by God’s glad-hearted passion for God.

Taken from 10 Things We Get Wrong About the Love of God by Sam Storms, Copyright © February 03, 2025. Used by permission of Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers, Wheaton, IL 60187, www.crossway.org

IN GOD WE TRUST AND ABIDE . . . PSALM 91 . . .

By Chan Beng Hock

I thank God for His blessings and healing upon Elliot. With our own eyes, we have been able to witness His miraculous healing of Elliot, day by day.

I thank God for His protection upon Elliot, in the midst of human lapses and miscommunication.

I thank God for His grace and mercy from unseen and unknown threats upon Elliot.

I thank God that Elliot was discharged from the National University Hospital on the 19th of September with the ability to walk, run, jump, and comprehend his surroundings, although he is yet to be able to talk and sing praises to God for His blessings and healing upon him.

I give thanks to God for the many prayers from brothers and sisters-in-Christ from Grace B-P Church and Church of the Good Shepherd.

As Elliot continues his rehabilitation and therapeutic journey ahead, I pray for God’s guidance and blessing upon him and the complete restoration of his cognitive and motor skills. I pray too that there will be no more seizures and irritations affecting him even when medication is discontinued.

I pray for God’s continued presence and protection upon Melissa, Andrew, Elliot, and Chloe as a family and that they continue to worship and serve God the Almighty who is all powerful and all knowing.

I pray for God’s blessings upon all of us, for good health and strength to do His will, till He comes again.