Monday, November 29, 2010

God loves you...do you actually believe it?


God showed His great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners. Romans 5:9 NLT

And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. 1 John 4:16 NKJV

May Christ through your faith [actually] dwell (settle down, abide, make His permanent home) in your hearts! May you be rooted deep in love and founded securely on love, That you may have the power and be strong to apprehend and grasp with all the saints [God's devoted people, the experience of that love] what is the breadth and length and height and depth [of it]; [That you may really come] to know [practically, through experience for yourselves] the love of Christ, which far surpasses mere knowledge [without experience]; Ephesians 3:17-19 AMP

As a believer, the truth that “God loves you” is something you need to hear often. One of the reasons is because the enemy spends so much time telling you that God doesn’t love you. God wants you to both know and believe the love that He has for you. Some know it, but don’t believe it.

The truth of God’s love for you is the most encouraging, edifying, hope-giving, life-changing truth you will ever know. He loves you in Christ. He loves you through Christ. He loves you by sending Christ, His Son, to die for you. He loves you from the breadth of Christ’s obedience, from the length of Christ’s mercies, from the depths of Christ’s sacrifice, and from the heights of Christ’s resurrection and ascension. Could a God who loves you this much, fail you in any way?

Are you someone who struggles with knowing the depths of God’s love for you? Let the Holy Spirit begin to sweep over your soul and reveal to you the greatness, the fullness, and the completeness of God’s love. Ask Him to open your eyes to see and your heart to know the love of God in ways you have never known or thought possible. And what He shows you, believe it to be so.

Be assured of His love. Rest in His love. Be renewed in His love. Christ came for you. Christ died for you. Christ lives for you. You are greatly loved. This is the good news of the Gospel. This is your good news.
Where will this great love take you? What will it mean to you today and for all your tomorrows? Consider these words from the Apostle Paul…

“What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things? Who will bring a charge against God's elect? God is the one who justifies; who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Romans 8:31-34

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