God is Loving

Never believe the lie that God does not love you!

Where does this lie come from? It comes from our natural tendencies to allow our emotions to rule us. In other words, we tend to believe an idea based on how we feel. It's true that, especially as women, we will look inward and nurse our poor hurt feelings and question the love of God for us. But what have we done? We have taken our eyes off the Father and focused them on ourselves.

The Truth is that God does love you and me. He loves us with a love incomprehensible! For the sake of our well-being and spiritual health, let us try to understand it right now.

Ephesians 3:14-19 -- For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height -- to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

Our spirits immediately lift as the truth of Scripture penetrates our being. Whether we've lived with this lie for years or for weeks, for months or for minutes, the very Word of God is able to set us free. Again, God loves you and me.

Romans 5:8 --But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

1 John 4:7-10 --Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might love through Him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

This, then is a matter of trust. We must set ourselves to trusting God and His Word and we must walk away from the temptation of thinking that we can trust our feelings. This may mean a change of lifestyle for many us, and we need the Lord to help us. It could have been a habit of several years, but with the Lord's strength, it is possible to change our wrong thinking.

You only have to ask Him. May you be strengthened with might through His spirit in the inner man.

Love, Karen