God’s Infinite Love

by Annie Yorty ©2022

In my house, sour cherry crumb pie is a favorite. Wet-bottom shoofly pie is a close second. When I make them, which is about once a year—twice if you’re lucky, they don’t last long. But as the slices disappear, I can almost see the calculations going on inside my hubby’s brain. If I don’t get my slice now, will it be there later when I come back for it? Better get it now!  I know a young woman who thinks love is like a pie. A pie with only so many slices to go around. If someone else gets a huge helping of love, there won’t be any left for her. That may be true of human love. But not God’s infinite love.

God’s Infinite Love

Infinite: limitless; endless in space, extent, or size; impossible to measure or calculate

The Bible is filled with verses about who God is, with love at the center of it all. The prefix UN- adds the idea of “not” or “never” to the word that comes after. Four UN- words characterize the dictionary definition of infinite: UNconditional, UNlimited, UNfailing, UNfathomable.

UNconditional Love

But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners (Romans 5:8 NLT).

God’s love cannot be earned by human endeavor. Simply put, God does not love us because of anything we did or did not do. For anything we currently are doing or not doing. Nor for anything we will or will not do in the future. God loves us because He is love. We could never pay for something as infinite, wonderful, and precious as God’s love expressed through the voluntary, sacrificial death of His Son!

UNlimited Love

I have loved you, my people, with an everlasting love (Jeremiah 3:3a NLT).

I wonder how many parents have ever felt divided by your children’s competing needs. After becoming a mom, I learned very quickly that the supply of Annie is severely limited.

But our heavenly Father says His love is everlasting, endless. His inexhaustible supply endures across all time. The math doesn’t logically compute in our human minds, but God lavishes 100% of His love on every human being every single day. No matter how much He gives, His love never runs out!

Every quality in the character of God flows out of His essence of infinite love. Naming just a few—kindness, goodness, faithfulness, compassion, mercy, and even justice, reminds me how desperately I need to know I can never deplete God’s supply of love. Because I believe His love supply is endless, I can depend on all His other character traits.

Thankfully, God’s infinite love is not like my pies that are sliced up and doled out in pieces. Instead, He invites us to feast on the whole love pie every day.

UNfailing Love

With unfailing love I have drawn you to myself (Jeremiah 31:3b NLT).

Satan whispers one of the most pernicious lies—there are some sins so heinous God cannot or will not love you enough to forgive. We humans, who tend to compare and rank everything, easily believe this trap. Consequently, we camouflage our sin, thinking no one knows. Some may indeed be fooled, but El Roi, God who sees, penetrates our not-so-clever disguises.

God doesn’t walk away from us because of our sin. On the contrary, His love compelled Him to send His Son, Jesus, to offer forgiveness—cleansing—for every sin. Not some sins. Not just the easy ones. Every sin.

Have you ever driven across a decrepit bridge and pictured it breaking beneath the weight of your car?  Okay, maybe it’s just me. In my imagination, I wonder how I will escape after I plunge into the depths below. Yes, I know this is a morbid thought, but bear with me as I make a point. 😊

If we think of God’s love as a bridge, we could drive an endless convoy of the heaviest armored tanks across, and it would never deteriorate. There is no sin we can commit that is so weighty it will cause the bridge of God’s love to crumble, or even crack, beneath us.

God’s infinite love never fails. It always accomplishes His purpose of making a way to come into His family as adopted children and maturing us to be like His Son, Jesus.

UNfathomable Love

And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is. May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God (Ephesians 3:18-19 NLT).

If your head swirls as you consider the unconditional, unlimited, and unfailing love of God, I’m feeling woozy right there with you. Even as I study the Bible and write these words, I lament that my meager abilities fail to scratch the surface of God’s infinite love.

But in this verse, Paul reassures we can experience God’s infinite love even though we do not fully fathom it.

My Prayer for Us

God’s love is real. And God’s love really is infinite—unconditional, unlimited, unfailing, and unfathomable. My prayer is that each of us would enjoy the experience of God’s infinite love every day. Dig into the whole pie. There’s more than enough to go around!

Join the conversation:

Which UN- word of God’s infinite love resonates most with you and why?

On a light and tasty note, have you ever tasted Pennsylvania Dutch shoofly pie?

I welcome your comments!