God loves you! Have you ever considered what that really means? Love is more than gushy feelings, passion, and sentiment. Love does more than move the emotions, it motivates the will. For God so loved the world that He gave His Son! He gave Jesus because He loves you! His love compelled him to do something, not just feel something. True love always finds expression in doing something sacrificial for someone else. Some question whether God could love them after what they’ve done.  Others look at their circumstances and figure that if God loved them, things would be better. Most of us struggle with a combination of both! But Romans 5:8 says, that “God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” Notice that demonstrates is in the present tense, which means right now, with all you have done and all that is happening around you, the present proof of God’s love is that He gave Jesus for you! It is unchangeable and done and you are loved with “His own love.” Even when feelings cause you to question, there is no doubt that the gospel truth is you are loved indeed! Only then does it make sense that we are called to love one another. Again, not just a feeling but an action that gives what has been received. You are loved indeed so that you can love in deed!

1 John 3:18 Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth.

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