52 UNCONDITIONAL LOVE SAYS, “THERE IS
NOTHING YOU CAN DO THAT WILL MAKE ME STOP LOVING YOU.”

Are you willing to love your child unconditionally? That means that your love doesn’t depend on what they do. Your love for your child isn’t withdrawn just because you are upset with their behavior or attitude.

Conditional love is a controlling, manipulative love. It says, “I will love you if …” God’s love (agape) says, “I will love you always.”

Unconditional love seeks the child’s best. It is a selfless, expecting-nothing-in-return loving. When we love to get something in return, we are manipulating and trying to control a child.

Unconditional love is patient. It spends whatever time is necessary to reach out to a child. It believes in the child and God’s potential for that child. Unconditional love never quits or gives up.

Unconditional love rejoices in the successes of a child and encourages and child when he stumbles or makes a mistake. Love refuses to believe that mistakes make a child a failure.

Unconditional love isn’t easily angered and doesn’t provoke children to anger. It’s not oversensitive or overreacting.

Unconditional love rejoices in the truth and speaks the truth loving to the child.

Unconditional love endures hardship, rejection, pain, and discouragement. No matter what a child does to the parent, the parent continues to love and encourage the child.

Are you willing to say to your child, “There is nothing you can do to make me stop loving you!”

Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails (1 Cor. 13:4–8).