God Loves YOU!

Romans 8:28-39

God loves you. Close your eyes...allow these incredible words to sink deeply into your spirit. Yes, God really loves you. They are three of the most encouraging words you can ever hear or speak.

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. [29] For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. [30] Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. [31] What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? [32] He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? [33] Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth. [34] Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. [35] Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? [36] As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. [37] Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. [38] For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, [39] Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:28–39, KJV)

Like you I meet People who are starving to hear that God or anybody loves them. This is a cold and hard reality for some folks; they receive next to no affirmation in their lives and precious little love. I have heard adults confess without any hesitation…with their eyes filled with tears, “I never heard my father say he loves me”… or, “My hard-working mother must have loved me, but after a certain age she stopped telling me”…or, “I don't recall my mother ever telling me she loved me.” I have only heard of the loneliness in spirit that can develop if a person grows up aching to hear unspoken words of approval, affection, and love.

                                                                       

Like others, I struggled for years as a Christian trying to understand the love of God personally and deeply. I generally believe He loves me on the basis of His Word, but is there a more comprehensive sense of realizing His love?

Continuing in the Word, I discovered God literally loves you and me in incredible ways!

      A.  God Loves the World and That Includes You. John 3:16, says, For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

      B.  God Loves the Saints and That Includes You. Second Thessalonians 2:16, says, Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,

      C.  God Loves the Individual and That Includes You. Galatians 2:20, says, I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

      D.  God Loves the Sinner and That Includes You. Romans 5:8, says, But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

At Calvary God loved you. As one of His children, through faith in Jesus Christ, God loves you. Christ Jesus loved you by giving Himself without any reservations to save and have you for His own. In fact, God’s profound declaration of love transpired two thousand years ago when Jesus hung on a cross dying for us sinners! Calvary is powerful evidence of sacrificial unconditional divine love towards me and you. Every single one of us fits into most of those previously mentioned categories and it is undeniably evident that God literally loves you!

Beloved, do not doubt His love for a second; believe the Word of God and not your own lying heart. Just because you feel alone, feel rejected, feel threatened, feel afraid, and feel forsaken does not mean you actually are! You may be frustrated, overwhelmed, backslidden, or even deeply hurt and suffering, but none of this means God has stopped loving you as His cherished child. God’s love must be taken by faith on the clear statements of Scripture. It is a matter of fact, and is not based on our circumstances and emotions.  God loves you…God loves you…God really does love you. Do not trust your heart; trust GOD! Beloved, receive the indescribable and staggeringly boundless love of Jehovah God! Realize His love for you by faith.