A parent just naturally loves his child without condition. The very idea that God would permit the privilege of bringing new life into the world, through your own life, shows how much God loves us. But, along the way, we often come to think that we must earn love from others and if we don't get it we are not only unloved by them...we are unable to love ourselves. I believe this is the basis for much unhappiness and insecurity. All of life and life's experience is a wonder...a mystery...a miraculous event that we neither asked for, nor can explain. We can try to fill our days with self-made purpose but we cannot address the wonder, solve the mystery or explain the miracle of life without coming back to the Source of all life. And we hesitate to do that because we feel unworthy, unholy and unloved. The good news of the Gospel is that our Maker loves us just because we are His. His love comes to us with only one condition. That condition is that we accept the unconditional love and sacrifice of Jesus on our behalf. It is true that we are unworthy and unholy but it is untrue that we are unloved. You are greatly loved and highly prized. The whole Bible story was crafted to reach you with this message of heavenly embrace. One word of caution: just as you cannot earn this love from the Lord, so you cannot lose it by failure. You are just going to have to get used to the fact that you are loved...just because...you are His!
1 John 4:10 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. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
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