You are loved

You are loved

Do you know that you are truly loved by your creator the Lord God Almighty?  He created you for his own pleasure.  He longs for a relationship with those whom He created.  A relationship with God is like no other relationship you may have experienced. God has a unique kind of love for you. It is unconditional not based upon meeting certain conditions. God loves you because He loves you.  I have been talking about having a faith walk with the Lord.  This is where it comes from having a relationship with the Lord and walking faithfully with Him on the path He has carved out for you.

1 John 4:9-10

This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.  This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

He does not love you based upon your performance, what you do and what you don’t do. There is nothing you can do to cause God to love you any more than He already does, and there is nothing that will cause God to love you any less. He loves you, even more than you love yourself.

Until now you have probably only experienced conditional love. Conditional love is based upon what you do. Perform well on the job.  Having conditional love in your family or in the relationship,  Only God loves you with an unconditional love.  

In opening your life to Christ, you have found total love and acceptance. That may be hard to comprehend if you’ve never felt totally loved and acceptance by anyone. But it’s true! Unfortunately, you won’t always feel that God loves you. There will be times when you find yourself doubting not only His love, but also His existence. You’ll feel like giving up, but don’t.

Jeremiah 31:3

God says, I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving kindness

We will be walking many miles in life with the Lord.  Some miles may be difficult, hard, but you will also have miles where they are easy and full of joy.  The knowledge that God loves you will keep you going when the next mile seems intolerably long.  This is where your faith in Him will need to rise up and keep you going.

Romans 8:38-39

For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Our faith rests in what God has revealed about Himself to us. He specifically wants us to believe and rely on His love for us:

Psalms 147:11

The Lord delights in those who fear him, who put their hope in his unfailing love

Psalms 33:18

Lord watches over those who fear him, those who rely on his unfailing love.

King David, whom God referred to “as a man after my own heart”  trusted God’s love:

Psalms 59:16-17

I will sing of your strength, in the morning I will sing of your love; for you are my fortress, my refuge in times of trouble. O my strength, I sing praise to you; you, O God, are my fortress, my loving God.

To grow in your understanding of God’s love for you, take some time over the next few weeks and read Psalms 103, John 15, and 1 John 4, and note all the ways that God’s love is described.

May this find you walking faithfully with your Lord.