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Does God Love Me?

Everyone wants to be loved. However, no one in human history has been able to define love exactly because something about love goes beyond human understanding.

Perhaps the biggest problem in understanding God's love is that the superficial definitions of love we find in popular culture muddy our ideas of love. We think of love, for example, in marriage, as some business deal, where one person commits to loving another as long as they receive love in return. We have the saying, "you scratch my back, and I'll scratch yours." That's not what God means by love.

The Bible says love has its true origin and definition in who God is. It's not that "God is loving," but that God, himself, "is love." God's love is not expressed in an idea but a person – Jesus Christ. That's why his love is always irrepressible, always passionately seeking, and it's always forever.

God didn't wait for us to love him first or become better people before he loved us. The greatest expression of his love was switching places with you when he gave his life for you so that you could have peace and freedom today.

A key challenge in life is to accept you are loved. You might ask: "How can a perfect God love me when I'm imperfect?" Our pride and the desire to earn love stand in our way, but earned love isn't love; it's a reward.

God loves you simply because he does – fully, perfectly, and forever. When you understand that, it frees you to live on a higher level than you ever have before and to live forever. If you ever feel too unlovable for God, think about these words Jesus said: "I will never turn away anyone who comes to me."

– Eliezer Gonzalez