God's Love for us

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.