The Multiplying Power of God's Unfailing Love
As another Valentine’s Day fades into memory, God’s people must resist the temptation of letting love be reduced to a once a year sentiment or a commercialized display. The love God is costly, consistent, and deeply sacrificial. It stretches us to love when we are disappointed by a spouse or wounded by a child. It steadies us to love even when death separates us from those we cherish. When God’s love is displayed through sacrifice, something remarkable happens; it multiplies, and it deepens.
We see this multiplication early in the Holy Scriptures. When Abram obeyed God and was willing to offer Isaac, his act of surrender created space for God’s love and promise to expand .By the time we meet God’s people in Goshen at the end of Joseph’s life, they are described as “fruitful and multiplying greatly,” a people almost without number (Exodus, 1:7, ESV). Their growth was not without grief, as God often lamented their unfaithfulness, yet His love refused to let them go. Through Hosea, God declares, “I will say to those who were not my people, ‘You are my people’” (Hosea 2:23, KJV). Love multiplied again.
This same pattern reaches its fullness in Christ. Seeing our separation, our rebellion, and our inability to return to God on our own, Jesus willingly embraced the Father’s plan: “A body you prepared for me… I have come to do your will, O God” (Hebrews 10:5,7, ESV). Even as the weight of that obedience pressed upon Him, Jesus looked beyond the suffering to the harvest it would produce. He revealed the divine principle of multiplication in God’s kingdom: “Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit” (John 12:24, ESV). Jesus invites us to follow the pattern of the Father and Himself: give from the heart, live sacrificially, and watch God multiply what we surrender.
John the Apostle later captures this breathtaking reality: “See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God” (1 John 3:1, ESV). Like Hosea, John was probably in awe of God’s loving kindness, as he recognized that we were deserving of abandonment, yet God’s love reconsidered us, reclaimed us, and renamed us! Hallelujah!
It’s no wonder the hymn writer could only marvel:
“The love of God is greater far
Than tongue or pen can ever tell…”
The song goes on to describe God’s love as so vast that if the oceans were ink and the skies were parchment, they still could not contain the story of His love. That is the love that multiplies. That is the love that found us.
A Call to Live the Multiplying Love of God
If God multiplies love through sacrifice, then our daily lives become the soil where His kingdom grows. Every act of forgiveness, every moment of obedience, every costly choice to love someone who has not earned it are seeds. Christ has already shown us that what dies in love rises in fruitfulness. So let us pattern our lives after His. Let us give in ways that stretch us, love in ways that cost us, and trust, by faith, that God will multiply every surrendered seed. The return may not look like what we expect, but it will always reflect the heart of the One who loved us first.
Blessings,
Pastor Adderley
We see this multiplication early in the Holy Scriptures. When Abram obeyed God and was willing to offer Isaac, his act of surrender created space for God’s love and promise to expand .By the time we meet God’s people in Goshen at the end of Joseph’s life, they are described as “fruitful and multiplying greatly,” a people almost without number (Exodus, 1:7, ESV). Their growth was not without grief, as God often lamented their unfaithfulness, yet His love refused to let them go. Through Hosea, God declares, “I will say to those who were not my people, ‘You are my people’” (Hosea 2:23, KJV). Love multiplied again.
This same pattern reaches its fullness in Christ. Seeing our separation, our rebellion, and our inability to return to God on our own, Jesus willingly embraced the Father’s plan: “A body you prepared for me… I have come to do your will, O God” (Hebrews 10:5,7, ESV). Even as the weight of that obedience pressed upon Him, Jesus looked beyond the suffering to the harvest it would produce. He revealed the divine principle of multiplication in God’s kingdom: “Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit” (John 12:24, ESV). Jesus invites us to follow the pattern of the Father and Himself: give from the heart, live sacrificially, and watch God multiply what we surrender.
John the Apostle later captures this breathtaking reality: “See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God” (1 John 3:1, ESV). Like Hosea, John was probably in awe of God’s loving kindness, as he recognized that we were deserving of abandonment, yet God’s love reconsidered us, reclaimed us, and renamed us! Hallelujah!
It’s no wonder the hymn writer could only marvel:
“The love of God is greater far
Than tongue or pen can ever tell…”
The song goes on to describe God’s love as so vast that if the oceans were ink and the skies were parchment, they still could not contain the story of His love. That is the love that multiplies. That is the love that found us.
A Call to Live the Multiplying Love of God
If God multiplies love through sacrifice, then our daily lives become the soil where His kingdom grows. Every act of forgiveness, every moment of obedience, every costly choice to love someone who has not earned it are seeds. Christ has already shown us that what dies in love rises in fruitfulness. So let us pattern our lives after His. Let us give in ways that stretch us, love in ways that cost us, and trust, by faith, that God will multiply every surrendered seed. The return may not look like what we expect, but it will always reflect the heart of the One who loved us first.
Blessings,
Pastor Adderley
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