**1. God's love is deliberate**Zech 9:9 - 9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion!Shout in triumph, O daughter of Jerusalem!Behold, your king is coming to you;He is just and endowed with salvation,Humble, and mounted on a donkey,Even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.Gen 49:11 - 11 "He ties his foal to the vine,And his donkey's colt to the choice vine;He washes his garments in wine,And his robes in the blood of grapes. Mark 10:33 - 34 - 33 saying, "Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and the scribes; and they will condemn Him to death and will hand Him over to the Gentiles. 34 "They will mock Him and spit on Him, and scourge Him and kill Him, and three days later He will rise again."John 10:17-18 - 17 "For this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life so that I may take it again. 18 "**No one has taken it away from Me, but I lay it down on My own initiative**. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This commandment I received from My Father."**2. God's love is patient.**Luke 19:41 - 41 When He approached Jerusalem, He saw the city and wept over it,Luke 19:42 - 42 saying, "**If you had known in this day, even you, the things which make for peace! But now they have been hidden from your eyes.**"Luke 19:43-44 - 43 "For the days will come upon you when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, and surround you and hem you in on every side, 44 and they will level you to the ground and your children within you, and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation." Isa 49:15 - 15 "Can a woman forget her nursing childAnd have no compassion on the son of her womb?Even these may forget, but I will not forget you.Matt 9:36 - 36 Seeing the people, He felt **compassion** for them, because they were distressed and dispirited like sheep without a shepherdMatt 14:14 - When he went ashore he saw a great crowd, and he had **compassion** on them and healed their sick.Matt 15:32 - Then Jesus called his disciples to him and said, "I have compassion on the crowd because they have been with me now three days and have nothing to eat. And I am unwilling to send them away hungry, lest they faint on the way.Isa 42:3 - "A bruised reed He will not breakAnd a dimly burning wick He will not extinguish;”**3. God's love is powerful**Luke 19:42 saying, "If you had known in this day, even you, the things which make for peace! John 8:36 - "So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.John 14:27 - "Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you.” Phil 4:11-13 - 11 Not that I speak from want, for I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am. 12 I know how to get along with humble means, and I also know how to live in prosperity; in any and every circumstance I have learned the secret of being filled and going hungry, both of having abundance and suffering need. 13 I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.

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