Unconditional for Whom?

 

 

 

How oft have you heard

God loves unconditionally

Meaning of course,

You, me and everybody?

 

Sinner and saint

The unsaved and saved

And it doesn’t really matter

How any of us behave.

 

Contrite and unrepentant

Believer and atheist,

It doesn’t matter what we do

We're all on God's list.

 

God loves the sinner

But He hates the sin

And he loves us whether or not

We come to Him.

 

Think of the signal

Such a statement sends

And understand, my friends,

God does not pretend.

 

Does he love all the same?

I would think not

But Satan wants us to think so

For he is a sly old fox.

 

God loves the world

And this we cannot deny

But not like he loves His Son

Whom it crucified.

 

This love is not the same

Just like human beings show,

For their loved ones it’s different

From those they just know.

 

 

God loves the born-again

Just like He Loves His Son

And He extends this same love

To all who to Him come.

 

They become God’s children

By way of their rebirth

And this rebirth is in Christ Jesus

Whom God sent to the earth.

 

So that God loves these

Through His love for Jesus

And so, to those who are saved,

God’s love is a must.

 

God loves the sinner

But hates the sinner’s deeds

Yet the sinner will go to hell

However much he pleas.

 

 

That’s not unconditional

I hope you can see,

God will judge sinners and sin

Eventually!

 

What good would be His love

To those in hell?

What benefits would be theirs then?

If you know, pray tell.

 

God abhors ungodliness

And sin attracts His wrath

And the unrepentant is going to hell

In their own chartered craft.

 

Stewart Russell © January 20, 2022