It is He who loves you.
What does that mean exactly? God
loves you; He loves me. Yes, indeed He
does, but what does that look like? I
honestly cannot express how much He loves you or how much He loves me because I
don’t think I’ll ever be able to grasp how much He loves us. If I do, it’ll be in Heaven and I’ll probably
be incredibly and inexpressibly overwhelmed.
I can tell you though, that the God who spoke the stars into being, He
also spoke man into being and He saw that it was very good. He put thought into His creation. We were woven together in our mother’s womb,
so intricately. The Psalmist says that
we were ‘fearfully and wonderfully made’.
God desired to know us even after the fall. He wants to have a relationship with us. He sent His precious, one and only son, and
perfect at that, to take on the weight of the sin of the world; that is the
world then (when Christ was on the Earth), the world now (the world we live in today), and the world to come (future). The past, present, and future sins. In fact, if we have received salvation then
we are justified and God sees us as saints, as righteous, as set apart. Isn’t that unbelievable? Well, it’s very true. It is crazy to think that God would want to
have a relationship with someone so filthy as me or you, but in fact He
does. He sees us as worthy and We have
been covered by the blood of Jesus. We
have been soaked by His Grace. He loves
us unconditional; there is nothing we can ever do that will separate us from
the love of the Father, nothing.
Ever. We may not get this because
in fact it’s unfathomable to the human mind, but it also may be unbelievable
because in fact we think we don’t deserve it, well we don’t. But, really that’s irrelevant, but because
God’s standard is different. The Bible
says that His ways are not our ways. We
may be so caught up in our past, what we’ve done; we may be so bogged down by
guilt and shame; we struggle to understand why God would love us. Really, for some it’s hard to accept God’s
love because in fact we have been told so many times that we’re filth, that we’re
unworthy, and we’ve believed it. We may
know that God loves us, in our minds, and we may believe it to an extent, but
still haven’t fully accepted it because there is so much keeping us from being
freed and living the life God has created us to live. Because God created us for so much; He has a
great plan for us. He wants us to accept
His love and live in it. He doesn’t want
us to believe lies that some of us have believed for so long. We were created for more than to just go
around sort of living instead of living in our potential. God created each one of us the way he did for
a reason. We are each here for a
reason. We each have a purpose. It is to bring Him glory, but we each have
specific passions, gifts, etc. And we
are to use them not waste them. So, the
truth is, God love us. He loves who we
were, who we are, and who we will be.
And He wants us to accept that love.
And live in it. We may not fully ever comprehend it, but may we accept the gift He bestows on us. In that, May we seek
Him. And trust Him.
