Love

 God’s love is so vast and incredible. We don’t deserve it, we have selfish rotten attitudes that want to please nothing but self. We fall for temptations, mock God in things we say and how we act. Try to fit into the crowd even if it means not talking about God. We laugh at dirty jokes, thinks wicked thoughts. Make fun of people, slander them behind their backs, disobey our parents, be rude to our siblings. We’re disrespectful at times; get angry at family members about things, then yell at them when they get angry at us for doing the same thing.

Had enough? Sure you have, and shouldn’t God as well? Shouldn’t he hate us, forget us, even punish us? Umm, yeah! At least that’s the way our hearts and minds work. Thankfully God doesn’t operate the same way.

Think God doesn’t care for you; think you’re no good, done too many sinful things? Ready for this: you are wrong. Don’t believe, listen to this.

God first of all created a perfect world; we ruined it by eating the fruit he told us not to. Second, even after what Adam and Eve did, he devised a rescue mission: Jesus. And before Jesus came to earth God still was working. He saved Daniel from a den of lions, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, in the fiery furnace.  Led the Israelites with a pillar of fire and a pillar of cloud.

Oh, and ever heard of Noah or Joseph?

God loved and cared for each of these individuals, and, he loves you too!

When Jesus came he came not to be ministered unto, but to minister. Then he was: punched, mocked, beaten with a reed, beaten with whips, spit upon, accused of blasphemy, and then force-marched up a mountain carrying a cross.

After all that he sacrificed his life for you on the cross. Yeah, that’s right, dirty sinful you. You know what he said when he was hanging on that cross, abandoned even by his heavenly father for your sake? “Forgive them for they know not what they do.”

Wow! He said that to the soldiers who drove spikes through his wrists and feet. Still not sure he loves you? Also, he raised himself from the dead so that we might have eternal life. Yeah, he has heaven prepared for you if you believe in him.

Heaven is a place with no pain, no sorrow, nothing but joy and worshipping our Maker, Jesus. And you know, God loves you even when you sin. IF you repent of your sin the bible says he is just and faithful to forgive you of that sin.

And he gives you a way to speak to him, no mediator needed. Prayer, another wonderful gift from our loving Saviour. The more I see his love, the more awestruck I am by it.

If you aren’t a believer in Christ, please realize he loves you and wants you to come to him today. Just repent of your sins, ask him to forgive you, tell him you realize and accept that he is the only way to heaven.

So please don’t ever again say God doesn’t love you. I may say his love in uncomprehending, but I summed it up the best I could in a short poem.

So thank you Jesus for your love for me,

Is impossible to comprehend,

It is beyond degree.

Remember people, God loves YOU!