“God is love” (1 John 4:8), and that love is described and illustrated in many ways in the Bible. Recently, God’s love has been popularly described as “reckless,” a description that has stirred some controversy due to the actual meaning of the word reckless.
The idea that God’s love is reckless was popularized by a worship song called “Reckless Love,” written by Caleb Culver, Cory Asbury, and Ran Jackson and recorded by Cory Asbury. The song was published by Bethel Music. In 2018 the song spent 18 weeks at number one on Billboard’s U.S. Hot Christian Songs chart and over a year in the Top 10. It won the 2019 Dove Song of the Year and the Christian Song of the Year Awards from both BMI and ASCAP. It was also nominated for a Grammy Award in 2019. In 2020 Charisma House Publishing released a companion devotional book, Reckless Love: A 40-Day Journey into the Overwhelming, Never-Ending Love of God.