God Loves You

God loves you.  How much of an impact do those three words have on you personally?  You’ve no doubt heard that statement numerous times in your life but do the words, God loves you, reach deep into your soul or do they merely pass by barely grazing your heart? 

Bear in mind, this is no simple declaration.  If you begin to dig into this declaration of love, you will find the beautiful depth of pure love behind it.  However, in order to see this beauty you must first be willing to accept it as true.

God loves you.  The One who made the birds and put a song in their heart loves you. The One who stretched out the sky and sprinkled it with stars loves you.  The One who filled the oceans and caused the rhythm of crashing waves loves you.  He made fireflies to light up at night, sunrises to welcome a new day, mountains majestic to behold, and vast deserts of untouched beauty. He has made and filled the earth and sky with awesome wonders and it’s all for you.  God designed it out of love - for you.

God gave you the gift of creation because He loves you.  But He certainly didn’t stop there.  God’s selfless love compelled Him to save the very one He loves at all cost. Evil entered God’s creation and, to this very day, evil has attempted to destroy all that God loves, namely us.

We have been held hostage by evil and the only way out, the price for our ransom and freedom, was God’s life for ours.  He never hesitated.  With love in His eyes, He looked at us; He looked at evil and He. Never. Hesitated.

He laid down His life in exchange for ours.  He was pierced through, crushed, slaughtered, and He poured out His soul (Isaiah 53:5,7,12).  Because God loves, we walk away free.

This is only a small unveiling of the depth behind the words, God loves you.  Spend time yourself meditating on these three words, asking God to reveal more of what He means by them.  Carry them throughout your day letting them fill your heart and mind.

I will say it again, God loves you.

Dina Pugh