Knowing you are loved

I don’t know about you but there are some days when I just need to be reminded I’m loved.  Maybe it’s not so much even hearing it (although that is really important) but knowing that I’m loved.  Truthfully I’m surrounded by amazing people that love me but even with all that sometimes it’s just not enough and I crave something deeper.  Which is actually quite normal since I believe we are hardwired for love.  I think that something deeper we crave is a someone and that is Jesus.

It’s in those moments that I need to know that God loves me.  He doesn’t just love a future version of myself when I see him in heaven but right now.  He’s pleased with me here with all the faults that still lurk.  So today if you need to know in the deepest parts of your very being that God loves you right now here are some verse from his heart to yours.

“The LORD your God is in your midst, a victorious warrior. He will exult over you with joy, He will be quiet in His love, He will rejoice over you with shouts of joy.” Zephaniah 3:17

“But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” Romans 5:8

“No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.  For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 8:37-39

“But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ.”  Ephesians 2:4-5

“In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.  In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.”  1 John 4:9-10

“See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are.”  1 John 3:1

“Give thanks to the God of heaven, for his steadfast love endures forever.” Psalm 136:26

My friends YOU are LOVED.  And not by someone who can have a bad day and be irritated with you, not by someone who may say the wrong thing by accident, not someone who forgets about you in their busy day.  No, you are loved by God who thinks you’re beautiful even when you wake up with bad breath and weird bed head.  You are loved by God who isn’t mad at you when you’re unkind.  You are loved by God who literally can’t forget about you.  My friend you are loved by GOD.  I hope that sinks in a little bit deeper today right down into those dark and dry cracks of your soul.

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