How to Overcome:Understanding God’s Love for Us

God’s love is the most amazing and incredible type of love we can feel. Looking back to a time when I didn’t know it, I cannot understand how I even got through one single day. It is what enables me to love in return and to feel wanted and desired. Knowing that He loves me makes me realize that there is nothing else in the world that I need. I do not need the comforts of life that I have grown so accustomed to. I don’t even really need my wonderful family or friends. Of course He gives me all that because He cares for me, but when it comes down to it, all we need is love(everytime I say that I can’t help but think about the Beatles) from God. Love is all we need.

The bible is filled with verses that proclaim God’s love for His Children. This post will be dedicated to my favorite verses on God’s love. Really meditating on these verses and believing that they are for me has changed my relationship with the Lord. When I first became a Christian, I had a hard time believing that God loved me. I had done so many terrible things, how could He? He is perfect, and I was so far from it that I thought there was no way that I deserved to be loved by Him. And the truth was, I didn’t deserve it. No one does. What we really deserve is death(“For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord”Rom.6:23) but since God loves us, He did not want that to happen. His love conquered our sin(and death) when He sent Jesus to die for us.

So just a word of encouragement to you believers out there: Know that we do not deserve God’s love, but He still loves us. His love for us is perfect and will never fail. He will never let us down if we trust fully in Him. He has wonderful plans for our futures and wants to bless us abundantly because of this love. No matter what we do, He will always love us( but we still need to remember that there are consequences for our sin, and it does separate us from Christ if we let it get in the way of a relationship with Him). And lastly, Christians, remember that God created man so that He could have a relationship with him. The best way to show your love in return for His is to pursue an intimate, deep relationship with Him. Our God is a jealous God. He wants our attention and He wants us to want to know Him more. He gives us a choice, but desperately hopes that our choice would be to know Him more and forsake all that stands in the way of that. What have you chosen? Are there things standing in the way of a deepening relationship with the Lord?

Here are the verses that I turn to most when I want to be encouraged in God’s love and His abundant provision:

“Your lovingkindess, O Lord, extends to the Heaves, Your faithfulness reaches to the skies” (Psalm 36:5)

“But You, O Lord, are compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger and abounding in love and faithfulness”  (Psalm 86:15)

“The Lord appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness” (Jeremiah 31:3).

“The Lord your God is with you, He is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, He will quiet you with his love, He will rejoice over you with singing” (Zephaniah 3:17). <<I love this one! He rejoices over us with singing! How amazing is that?!>>

“For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life (John 3:16)”

“As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in My love” (John 15:9).

“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written: “For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord “(Romans 8:35-39).

“But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions–it is by grace you have been saved (Ephesians 2:4-5).<<Amen to that, God’s grace is such a precious gift>>

“But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of His mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit” (Titus 3:4-5).

“This is how God showed His love among us: He sent His one and only Son into the world that we might live through Him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins (1 John 4:9-10).

The last verse is really the one that encourages me the most. The greatest display of love ever shown to this world was when God sent His only Son to die for our sins. Meditate on this video to understand God’s love for you. Remember as you watch it that if you were the only person on this earth that needed to have their sin’s atoned for, Jesus still would have done it. That is love, and it is all we need.

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