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God knows everything about you, yes “you”. He even counted every string of hair on your head. Isn’t that amazing? The Bible says He knew you before you were born. “My frame was not unseen by you when I was made secretly, and strangely formed in the lowest parts of the earth” Psalm 139:15. I guarantee you on the authority of the Word of God, that He loves you. This is amazing to me especially because I am almost invisible in my family (being 1 of 9), let alone in my community and the planet. It is hard for me to comprehend of any reason why the Lord of lords, the magnificent King of kings would be and/or should be interested in me and yet our Lord looks down and He sees me and you. We are cherished one by one and not as a group. He keeps tabs on us individually. He watches out and provides for each one of us as though each individual was the only child.
Think about it for a moment: The magnificent God that creates and runs the universe is concerned about “you”. Most people imagine that in God’s eyes we are just one of millions. We know most people don’t think we are important and so we assume
God thinks of us in a similar way. But then, again, God is not like
most people. To Him, each one us is special and worth sending His son to die for. To be honest everyone wants to be loved and accepted. There is nothing mankind wouldn’t do to find love and yet when love is found it isn't cherished but God loves us with His whole heart and He honors the relationship. Listen, God loves “you” with every speck of His enormous love. That means no matter how much God loves others, He couldn’t possibly love anyone else more than He loves you and no matter how much your spouse and your children love you (or say or don't say they do) it doesn't matter because either way their love can never compared to the love of God.
Mankind type of love is limited and conditional because most of us don’t know how to love but “God is love” (1 John 4:8). People love base on their personal agenda and selfish criteria but to God no Christian is too old, too naive, too ugly, too poor, too uneducated, too stupid and too annoying to be loved. It doesn’t matter who your parents were or what family you came from and in what part of the world you were born because when you accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, you automatically become an accepted (worthy of love) member of the elite family of the most prominent and only living God. God is your Father and like any good father, He has plan for your life, great unimaginable and extraordinary plans but unlike your earthly father, He’s got the means, the power and the will to bring the plans to fulfillment. Now what is you’d like to accomplish on this earth? Are you in the midst of great troubles? What are your most pressing needs? Bring them all to the Lord in prayers. There is nothing you loving father cannot do? If He could bring a dead person back to life, He can surely take care of you. DO you need to finish graduate school? Would like to be married? Do you need a job or a place to call home? do you need emotional, financial and educational healing? I promise you that can do it all. The word of God in Psalm 34:17 says "The LORD hears his people when they call to him for help. He rescues them from all their troubles."
Have you been looking for the love that surpasses all intelligence? Has your search led you to heartbreaks, disappointments, loneliness and despair? Then look no further than the loving arms of God. No matter what you have done and where you have been, I assure you, He loves you. (Romans 5:8). Once in His family, He will bring the right people into your life. He will turn your sorrows into joy. He will repair you damage relationships. He will restore your peace. He knows you well but He loves you anyway. He doesn't love you because you are lovable or because of some misguided notion of love; He loves you because He is love. He created you to have a loving relationship with Him, and He sacrificed His own Son (who also willingly died for you- John 3:16) to restore that relationship. He loves you. You are precious in His eyes. He will never abandon you. You can count on His unconditional love.
God's love towards us is demonstrated by the sacrifice He made on our behalf. "Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends" (John 15:13). Rely on God's unconditional and immutable love and you will not have to be lonely another day of your life.
Will you share His message of love with at least one person today? I trust that you will.
Praise the Lord!
