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Do I Believe God Loves Me?

Tuesday October 15, 2019

Often the root of our problems is what we choose to believe.  In our hearts we tell ourselves that if God truly loved us, He would have spared us from the troubles that harmed us, and He didn’t.  How could He love us and let us experience such pain and injustice?  How could a loving God have our best interests in mind when He asks us to walk a difficult and challenging way of confronting the pain and brokenness in our lives?  Wouldn’t a loving God give something softer and easier after all the hardship we’ve experienced?

When we were utterly helpless, Christ came at just the right time and died for us sinners. Now, most people would not be willing to die for an upright person, though someone might perhaps be willing to die for a person who is especially good.  But God showed His great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.  (Romans 5:6-8 NLT)

The truth is that God has done more than we realize to make our lives better.  Jesus suffered on the cross so we could be set free from our sin and healed from our brokenness.  We were helpless to do anything about either of those conditions, so God stepped in and provided exactly what we needed.  Will we accept what He’s done?  Will we turn over our sin and suffering and accept His saving and life-giving sacrifice on our behalf?

No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:39 NLT)

It is God’s desire to restore us to a relationship with Him that is life giving and satisfying. Sanity will return when we actively live according to God’s word as recorded in the Bible.  As we purposefully work to free those sections of our heart that are locked in hatred and victimization, healing will come.  We will also more easily enter into a loving relationship with God, and healthy relationships with others.  God’s love for us is unchanging.  His mighty power helps us do what He says, even when it makes no sense to us at all. 

Prayer:  Loving God, I admit that I’m helpless and that my thinking and believing about You have been twisted and confused.  I turn away from looking for any other power to sort out my pain and confusion.  I turn to You.  Forgive me.  Heal me. Come and live in me and show me what my life is truly all about.  Amen


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