Do You Know God Loves You?

If I ask, “Does God love you?” generally, if you’ve had some experience with the God of the Bible (God the Father, Jesus the Son, and the Holy Spirit), the answer will be a resounding, “Yes! Yes, God loves me!” 

And you’d be correct. He loves you more than you know.

But then we live our lives and in truth, we demonstrate, Oh, so it turns out, in actuality, I don’t really—at my core—believe it.

There are signs pointing to the reality that we don’t really believe what the apostle John wrote, “This is how much God loved the world… (John 3:16 The Message). John goes on to describe the “this”—the unfathomable lengths God has gone to express His love to you. To me. (I’ll talk about that another time.)

But if God loves us with an unfathomable love, a love beyond measure, it’d sure be good to know it. I mean really take it in.

So, how do you know when you don’t actually believe God loves you? And more importantly, what do we do when we discover we haven’t internalized the love of God the way He deeply desires us to experience His boundless, demonstrative love? 

Let’s start here. Let this wash over you today:

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” (Romans 8:37-39).

You are so loved, dear friend. Take it in.