I was planning on posting a different message when God spoke to me Sunday morning and reminded of Valentine ’s Day. With Valentine ’s Day just a day away, He reminded me that He is our greatest love. He created us in order to love us.
Ephesians 1:4 MSG
“Long before He laid down earth’s foundations, He had us in mind, had settled on us as the focus of His love, to be made whole and holy by His love.”
His love for us is unconditional. God’s love for us is not determined by what we do or what we don’t do. It’s not about us, it’s about Him. We can’t earn His love. He loves us because He does! It’s that simple yet we make it difficult to believe. We make it about our ability to please Him. We try to earn His love by the things we do. We will never be perfect or do everything perfectly. When we fail, we think we are unworthy of His love. We think God’s love for us is conditional—based on our performance.
We can do nothing to change God’s love for us.
Romans 8:38-39
“For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Do you struggle with knowing and believing God loves you? If you do, you are not alone. Many believer’s struggle with that truth. I have been a Christian for 40 years and it wasn’t until just about 6 years ago that I began to believe, truly believe, just how much God loves me. I knew it in word only because I had heard it spoken to me, but I didn’t believe it in my heart. Once I got it, WOW, my life changed. I know longer doubt my Fathers love. Even in my rebellion, He loves me well. When I mess up, He loves me. When I am disobedient, He loves me. That is amazing love!
When you accept Jesus as your Savior, the lies you believe just don’t fade away. It takes an exercise of faith, prayer, and reading God’s word of truth to begin believing that God loves you. For some of us, like myself, it takes a while to truly believe it. We buy into the lies. Those lies make their home in our minds and get comfortable there. Those lies take root–they are deep roots that need to be yanked out with the help of Holy Spirit. Our enemy, satan, tries his best to make sure we keep believing those lies. The only way to combat those lies is with truth! God’s truth!
If you need proof that God loves you, you need only to look to the facts. God sent His son to die on the cross for you. He paid the ransom for your sin so that you could spend eternity with Him in heaven. That is love!
1 John 15:13
“Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.”
John 3:16
“For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.”
Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day; remember the lover of your soul loves you the most! You are not alone. He is with you and for you.
Celebrate His love for you!
Happy Valentine’s Day