GOD’S UNCONDITIONAL LOVE FOR ME.
“Doubts” arise and followed by accusations that God doesn’t care for you.”Doubts” arise when you sin, “how could He love me NOW?” You “doubt” His unconditional love for you and put “conditions” on His love which are your own making, and suffocating if you are honest. Neither you nor anyone can keep up to the “standard” you have made! So, you live an emotional roller coaster life, “He loves me, He loves me not,” based on how you “feel,” how you “perform,” and if difficulties come into your life you see it as His displeasure towards you, rather than His using them to spiritually develop you as Romans 5;3-5 teaches. “Doubts” about His love for you, that you never “feel” you can measure up, you strive for His “acceptance,” and trying to “earn” His love.
BUT GOD SAYS,
YOU ARE ALREADY ACCEPTED IN HIS SON;
” He hath made us accepted in the beloved.”– {Eph 1;6}. Our eternal acceptance is in our relationship with God through our LORD Jesus His “Beloved.” Romans 1:7 says we are “The Beloved of God.” As The Father loves His Son, so too HE LOVES YOU because of His Son!
NO CONDEMNATION;
“Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.”- {Romans 8:1-2}. Present tense, no condemnation for you, “In Christ.” He bore all your condemnation on the cross.
HIS LOVE IS EVERLASTING;
“I have loved you with an everlasting love;
Therefore I have drawn you with loving-kindness.“- {Jeremiah 31:3}.
HIS LOVE IS CONTINUOUS;
“and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and released us from our sins by His blood”-{Rev 1:5}. His love is not stop-start. But is continuous!
HIS LOVE IS GREAT;
“But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved)“-{Ephesians 2;4-5}
HIS LOVE IS UNBREAKABLE;
“What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? … But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. 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.“- {Romans 8:31,37-39}
HE LOVED YOU BEFORE YOU WERE SAVED;
” But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. “-{Romans 5:8} How do you know God loves you? “Christ died for us!”
HIS LOVE IS KNOWN THROUGH THE CROSS OF CHRIST.
“We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us;”-{1 John 3:16}
GOD ASSURES YOU OF HIS LOVE
” and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.”-{Romans 5:5}.
“For God so loved the world, that He gave His ]only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. “-{John 3:16}. God’s Love is evident by what rather Whom he Gave…. His Son to rescue from the danger of sin, the power of satan, the wrath of God, so we should not “Perish,” but have “Eternal life.” God’s love is active, specific, powerful, personal!
The Response Of Love?
1.TRUSTING JESUS CHRIST – TO LIVE BY FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST
” I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.“-{Galatians 2:20}. His motivation for trusting Jesus Christ was He loved him specifically, personally and he testifies to this love. How did he know the LORD Jesus loved him? The same way as you do, as he wrote, “…and gave Himself up for me.” He offered Himself up as His Substitute to bear his sin, pay for it that Paul would not die in his sin but have the righteous of Christ placed to his account before God and is “Justified”-{Rom 5:1} declared “NOT GUILTY,” by God! Paul never got over the love of God for him, whom he said of the reason the LORD Jesus and his personal need of Him and his view of himself, “This is a trustworthy saying, and everyone should accept it: “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners”—and I am the worst of them all.”-{1 Timothy 1:15 NLT}.
2. LIFE IS NOW LIVED FOR JESUS CHRIST! NO LONGER LIVING FOR SELF BUT FOR JESUS CHRIST.
“For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died; and He died for all, so that they who live might no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf.“-{2 Corinthians 5:14-15}. “But…” rather than living for self live instead for Jesus Christ. Why? He “…died and rose again on their behalf. ”
Trusting Jesus Christ, Living for Jesus Christ is the proper response to the LOVE OF GOD!