Why Does God Love Me?

Even though some of us have grown up in a Christian home that taught the bible, our own view of it can be less than real Christianity. Because we are teens during that time, and maybe things of the Bible aren't real to us yet.

One example was that when I heard of Jesus and that He died on the cross for our sin, well I could accept that. However, I would think away the thoughts of how horrific an event it had been for him. 

Surely God had taken the pain from Him. After all, God was His Father. Right! Why would His Father make Him go through all that without some relief?  (Of course, God did not make Jesus do it. Jesus did it because He loved us.)

Those were some of my own ways of understanding of it. Of course, they were very false. 

But even in my 40s, having had 4 children and raising them in church, I struggled with God's love for me. I didn't think he really loved me all that much. I still had not grasped that love fully enough to understand that Jesus dying on the cross had much to do with His love for me than any other thought that I could understand. 

Eventually however, I did come to understand why He did what He did. He did it because He loved me. He loved the world so much that he died for it so that we can be forgiven and spend eternity with Him. 

I read a devotion today from LOVE NOTES that goes in to why God loves us. I have copied and pasted it here for you. Please read on. 

Why Does He Love Us?

 

“I don’t need to struggle for His love,” the young woman said, tears streaming down her face.

I was living in Budapest, Hungary, and I had just given a seminar to a group of Hungarian women. I started in Genesis and went through Revelation, explaining mankind's repeated rebellion and God's repeated forgiveness and love.

 

When I was done, this woman began weeping because - for the first time in her life - she realized the beauty of God's love.

Another woman looked at me with wonder and gratefulness and asked gently and reverently, “Why does He love us?” 

 

I had to tell her that I didn't know. There's no human explanation for God's love. It's unreasonable, unexplainable, beyond perfect.

 

He doesn’t love us because we are deserving. He loves us even though we aren’t.

God “does not treat us as our sins deserve” but loves us “while we [are] still sinners” (Psalm 103:10; Romans 5:8).

These women blessed me with their questions. It made me remember when I first understood what Jesus had done for me on the cross. 

 

I don't ever want to take God's love for granted. 

 

If you feel the same, let's memorize 1 John 3:1 and recite it every morning when we get out of bed!

 

"See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!"

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As for myself, really getting my heart to the place where I knew without a doubt, that God does love me, came when an intense reading of all scripture that had to do with His love. 

We need only to believe God's Word to understand and take it by faith, to accept it. 

I no longer doubt or fear. He is with me no matter what is going on. And whether I am having a good day or a not so good day, He is there loving me, just the same. 

Thanks for coming by today, my friends. I apologize for not being here the last few days. First that virus hit and then I just got busy on some other things that needed my attention. I would just like to ask prayer for myself and family.  We are not going through anything that would be classified as an emergency, but it has given us some anxiety. But also, God is working in it, and I know that the outcome will be from Him. 

And why do I believe that? It's because I know that He loves us!!! (Romans 8;28)

Again, thanks for coming by, and have a blessed evening