At some point or another, we've all felt unloved or unimportant, and I think we've all said,"Oh, yeah, God loves me..." as if it was somehow so much less than being loved by someone else. One day I happened to feel this way, and I thought,"Well, at least God loves me." And then I thought about it for a second - The God of the universe loves ME! It's the most amazing thing ever. Somehow we put it into our heads that God loving us is expected and is the lowest form of love, when it really is the greatest love of all. He didn't have to love us at all, and I wonder how He does even love us. As 1 John 4:10 says - In this love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. We are sinful and He is perfect. We are nothing and He is the Creator of the world. We don't deserve it, but He loves us beyond what anyone can imagine, beyond the way anyone else could ever love you.
Think about this: Jesus died for you. He died on the cross so that one day you could know Him, so that you could have eternal life. He even died for those who might never choose to know Him. That was a painful death, yet He still did it for us. C.S. Lewis once said,"He loved us not because we were lovable, but because He is love." If Jesus died to know you, then you must be pretty special to Him. His love is the most true love there ever was or will be. And it's the only love that can satisfy our ever-longing hearts.
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