Why Does God Love Me?: Part 3

In last weeks discussion the topic of how much God loves us compared to how much we love him came up...  So this week we will talk a little about how much God loves us versus how much we love him.

Cue music to get us in the mood...

We will never love God as much as he loves us.  That is just how it is.  Thinking that we will ever come close to his love is like people who think they need to get cleaned up and then they will come to church.  This is a very confused way of thinking.  God does want us to love him, but he knows that he is in a lopsided relationship.

When we stop and think about this it can feel very overwhelming.  There are some great lyrics in this song that try to paint a picture of how much God loves us and how powerful that love is.

He is jealous for me, Loves like a hurricane, I am a tree, bending beneath the weight of his wind and mercy. When all of a sudden, I am unaware of these afflictions eclipsed by glory, and I realize just how beautiful You are, and how great Your affections are for me.

If grace is an ocean, we're all sinking.

Oh how He loves us, how He loves us so.

Do you ever feel like you're sinking and drowning in God's love?  Do you feel guilty that you don't love God as much as he loves you?  That you don't always love Him?

Comment, post your thoughts, post any verses, or lyrics that help you in these times.

Why Does God Love Me?: Part 2

Last time we looked at how we have experienced God's love for us to try to better understand why God loves us.  Now we are going to look at why God loves me when I don't even love myself.

Sometimes it's hard to understand why anyone would love us.  We screw things up, hurt people, let down our best friends and family.  Sometimes we lie, cheat and steal... or even worse.  We get lazy, don't take care of ourselves. We don't like the way we look, or act.  Sometimes we feel dirty and unworthy of anything. We are just plain disgusting and despise who we are. In fact, sometimes we hate the person we are.

So how does God love us? 

Paul explains...

For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.    - Romans 8:38-39

 If none of that can separate us from God's love, why would we think anything else would.

God wants us to be close to him and experience his perfect love.  He is waiting.

Do you ever feel unworthy?  Do you feel separated from God's love, or anyone's love?
If you do, comment back about it or if you have a verse that pulls you out of these times, share it.

Why does God love me?: Part 1

Why Me? What is it about me that makes Him love me?

My boys have some great ways they try to tell me how much they love me.  Dylan used to always say "I love you bigger and bigger and up to the sky!"  Lincoln has been saying "I love you too much!"  These are both such great pure expressions of pure innocent love.  Plain and simple.

 As adults we have trouble expressing and sometimes even experiencing this pure love.  We tend to see the flaws in people and in relationships.  God gets it right.

As high as heaven is over the earth, so strong is his love to those who fear him.
And as far as sunrise is from sunset, he has separated us from our sins.
Psalms 103:11-12 The Message

God loves us not our sins.  So why does God love me, he sees me, not my flaws.  He sees the life I can live past the history I have lived.

So to better understand why God love us, let's talk about how we experience God's love for us.
Comment back with some ways you have experienced God's love for you in your life. If you have never experience God's love, share that too.

Why Does God Love Me?: Intro

Why does God love me?

Do you ever ask yourself why God loves you?  Why does an all powerful, all knowing God love me?

What am I to Him?  I am not good enough to deserve His love.  I have never done anything worth Him loving me.

But thankfully, God is not like us... and he does love us.

If you have ever had these questions, please keep reading here over the next month while we explore Why Does God Love Me?

Here's some theme music...

God is Love: Michael Gungor Band