I was looking through my journal from this past summer last night and I came across this entry and it was a good reminder for me of how awesome God's love is.
From August 6:
For great is your love, higher than the heavens. -Psalm 108:4
God's love is truely amazing. It's so hard to grasp the concept of how great God's love really is. He loves us all enough to sacrifice his only son, so have all our sins forgiven and life eternally. He didn't do it for him, he did it for us. Jesus didn't just feel like dying on the cross, he did it because he loves us. God's love for us never cahnges and he loves everyone the same. Nothing you do can make God love you less, because his love is unconditional. And nothing you do can make God love you more, because he already loves us as much as possible. He loves you for you. His love is so awesome! I am so thankful that I worship a God that loves me for me, a God that shows his love for me.
Now my question is, how can I love God the same way he loves me? All the love I can give is no where near the greatness of God's love. Even if my love doesn't measure up to his, I should still give him my all. Sometimes it seems like nothing I give is good enough. Sometimes I don't feel like I'm good enough. Sometimes I just can't see how my God, who is so big, powerful, and awesome, would want someone like me, who is so small and imperfect. But none of that is true. God wants all I can give. It's enough. He loves me and I am good enough for him. And even though I may not see how God could possibly want me, he does. I can show my love for God through my actions, by obeying him, by serving him, by worshiping him and only him, by telling others about him, by loving my neighbors as myself. I want to love God with my whole heart. I want a heart that beats hard for him.
When I read that I was once again reminded of God's love. It's a good thing to be reminded of how much he loves us no matter what we do becasue it's easy to make yourself believe that God will love you less if you do this or that. At Renewal this past weekend I was once again reminded of God's love. I don't need to earn God's love.
His love endures forever -Psalm 136:26
Greater love has no one than this -John 15:13
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life -John 3:16
This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins -1 John 4:9-10
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