God's Love for You

^"8But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us."

If you are like me, you may often wonder if God really loves you and how much does he really love you. We can toss this thought about in our mind and vary from day to day, moment to moment and feeling to feeling. Sometimes we may think He really loves us, and other times we may think God is pretty sick of us. The good news is, we don't have to guess, fall victim to our feelings or be tossed about by the opinions of others. God is quite clear in the Scriptures and in history in demonstrating His love for us. In the person and the work of the Lord Jesus Christ, we see that God declares His love for us by laying down His life for us. By submitting to death on the cross so that we could be forgiven and made alive in Christ. Jesus Christ died for the forgiveness and removal of sins, yes, but in the passion of Christ, His historical death, the event, we see how much He loves us. Jesus' accusers and executors unjustly subjected him to a kangaroo court trial, they spit in his face, whipped him, mocked him, abused him through the night. They then marched him up a hill through jeers and more public humiliation and finally crucified him, and continued to mock Him. Jesus never stopped loving even one of his abusers and accusers. He loved them, and not only that, he prayed for them. "Father, forgive them, they know not what they do." So, it is safe to say, that you can spit in God's face, accuse Him, lie about Him, and even try to kill Him, and it would not change His love for you. He would still love you even then. And not only that, after you did all of that to Him and He gets over it, He has a big party and invites you as the guest of honor. that is how much God loves you. 2Corinthians 5 tells us that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not counting men's sins against them, and we appeal to you on Christ's behalf, 'Be reconciled to God, God made Him who knew no sin to become sin for us so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus." God invites you to believe His radical unquenchable love for you and enter into His grace and rest.