I Am Loved By God Always
Monday April 1, 2019
We all long to experience love from our family, friends, and people we respect. We are sure that when others love us, we will finally feel satisfied. Sometimes we think we must do a certain thing or become a certain kind of person in order to earn this love from others.
This is real love. It is not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins We are still alive because the Lord’s faithful love never ends. Every morning he shows it in new ways! You are so very true and loyal! I say to myself, “The Lord is my God, and I trust him.” (1 John 4:10 NLT, Lamentations 3:22-24 ERV)
We never have to worry if we are good enough for God. While God may not approve of all our actions and behaviour, His love is not an emotion that will change with circumstances. He has already loved us at our worst. His love is constant. When God looks at us, He sees us through eyes of love. If we allow Him to work in our lives, God sees us as we will become.
The real question for us to ask ourselves today is not whether God loves us but whether or not we have opened our hearts to God and invited Him in. If we choose to give our will and life over to the care of God, we can experience God’s love and grow in it each day. Where we once felt dead inside because of sin, God’s Holy Spirit now brings us life. When God lives in us, His love comes alive in our hearts. We then have the assurance that absolutely nothing can separate us from God’s love. … nothing now, nothing in the future, no powers, nothing above us or nothing below us—nothing in the whole created world—will ever be able to separate us from the love God has shown us in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:39 ERV)
Prayer: Lord Jesus, forgive my sin and come into my heart. Heal my wounds. Fill me with Your Holy Spirit and Your love which You have promised will never fail me. Amen
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