Something occurred to me this morning. We all know God loves us unconditionally. How many of us really consider the full import of this knowledge? I see so many Christians expounding on questions concerning what we do and how God frowns (well, maybe more) on the foibles of human nature.

He has afforded us salvation coupled with forgiveness. But Christians seem to want to find fault with any Christian’s walk. Why? Then I see a good bit of condemnation about what is found. Why? God wants us to have His mind in all situations. He set up a way to live properly, yet we want to live by the OT law. We live in the age of mercy and grace, folks.

We should be living with God’s mind at the forefront of our thinking. What I saw was two-fold. Number one is that we are to love God unconditionally. What I mean is I hear so many people who don’t stop to consider that God is in control. But we blame God for sickness, untimely death, and numerous circumstances that we encounter in life as being negative. That is putting a condition on His love for us. We think He doesn’t know how to treat us better. That type of thinking comes from selfishness.

Then, on the other side, we are to love all other people with the same unconditional love. That’s not to say we condone sin. We should not. I have to say, my wife was blessed with the gift of extolling unconditional love. I’m not saying she has this gift in perfection, but she practices it quite well. I’ve found that this type of love has left me in a state of surrender to my own thinking.

The idea of unconditional love is elusive to many. Instead, we jump to judgment long before we consider God’s way of approaching his creation. What really struck me this morning was the fact that I should love God unconditionally as well.

I love Him because He is my creator. That is a fact in spite of whatever circumstance I encounter. Why? Because, like the title of that old family sitcom from decades ago explains it. “Father Knows Best”.