You Are Greatly Loved
I remember every time my wife became pregnant. Every day I would speak to her belly to tell the child inside her womb how much I loved them. For the first pregnancy I didn’t know I was speaking to two of them until two weeks before they came forth. But as a dad, even without being able to see them, or to know whether they would be well behaved or not, I loved them and wanted them to know so simply because they were mine, and they were wanted.
God as a Father loved us before we were ever born again. I’m not making this up, it says so in the Bible.
Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
God the Father, Jesus the Son and the Holy Spirit all Three in One loved us in eternity past. You and I were loved in Christ before the world began.
We were targeted for God's love before coming to know Jesus. How much more loved by Him are we now that we are His?
Ephesians 1:3 All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ. 4 Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes. 5 God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted to do, and it gave him great pleasure. 6 So we praise God for the glorious grace he has poured out on us who belong to his dear Son.
If that were not enough Jesus prayed this,
John 17:23 I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.
Jesus’ desire is that the world know that God the Father loves you with the same love He has for Jesus!!
Jesus did not die for you because you were morally good, or because you were trying hard to be good. I know I wasn't morally good, and neither was I trying to be. I was a rebel without a cause. Yet the Bible tells me I was loved even then.
Jesus died for you because you were greatly loved by the Father and deemed worth rescuing before the foundation of the world. His love is an everlasting love, so it hasn’t diminished over time!
Just as Paul stated the life I live now, I live by faith in the Son of God who gave Himself for me. The same holds true for every believer. So go live that beautiful abundant eternal life you have received and rejoice in Jesus! It’s your privilege to do so. You are a son now, a joint heir with Jesus, and as Jesus is so are you now in this earth! You my friend are greatly loved! Go manifest that amazing love that is yours today!
