I must confess sometimes I fail to understand how God could possibly love me so much. I know my heart and my thoughts. Sometimes they aren't very nice places I must admit. I make mistakes and fail a lot. I sometimes step directly into sin with no thoughts of how much it would hurt God. Deep down inside I am a wretched sinful man. How could God possibly love me?
Thankfully, He does love me and He loves you as well. The Lord knows our hearts and our past and our thoughts and He loves us anyway. God demonstrated His great love towards us in that while we were still sinners He sent Christ to die for our sins. Jesus Christ loves us so much that He endured the pain and torment of the Cross to reconcile us back into a right relationship with the Heavenly Father.
We may read in the Bible that God loves us and we sing songs of God's love, but do we really believe it deep down in our very souls? God's love is hard to understand and we won't understand it completely this side of Heaven, but we can definitely experience His love toward us by coming to faith in Jesus Christ and realizing what Jesus did for us on the Cross. "Greater love has no one than this, that He lay down His life for His friends", Jesus said. That is what Jesus did for us. He laid down His life for our sins because He loves us.
We know that is we confess our sins that He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness (I John 1:9). God so loved the world that He sent His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life (John 3:16).
It is only with the Holy Spirit's help that we can fully grasp the truth that God loves us and that He is crazy about us. We are the apple of His eye. The Lord's love for us is not based on our performance. If it was we would all be in trouble. God's love is unconditional. His love is deeper, wider, and higher than anything we could possibly think of.
Sometimes we have a hard time believing that God loves us because when we were growing up we didn't experience love from a parent. That is a hard thing to endure, but we can rest assure that God's love is perfect and perfect love cast out all fear.
We need to embrace this love that Father has showered upon us. We believers in Jesus Christ have been should this great love through Jesus sacrifice on the Cross on our behalf. What an Awesome God we serve. Oh how much He loves us.
May we always remember that the Lord loves us deeply.
Lord,
Thank You for loving us so greatly.
Help us to understand just how much You love us.
Holy Spirit help us to comprehend the Father's love in a powerful way.
I love You Lord and thank You for loving me.
In Jesus Name I pray,
Amen.
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