We lift our hands in worship. We sing, "He loves us! Oh how He loves us!" .... We feel God, We feel His love. But so often, we think that we have "deserved" for His love to become manifest to us because we have lived a "clean" and "pure" life constantly seeking God and living right. Why wouldn't God's love become manifest in our life? (I agree, it says that the Pure in heart shall see God.) But, I got to thinking, what about those that aren't pure in heart? ...
We often think God shows Hisself to us based on how good we have been, or how faithfully and dilligently we have been seeking Him. Maybe, how well we have worshipped Him, How much we really press into Him, How much we fast, pray and read the Word. But if God poured out His love and made Hisself manifest to us based on the "right" things that we do, then... wouldn't that be works? Wouldn't we be "working" to get God to show us His love? (Which, doesn't that totally nullify His grace?)
...What about those that are deceiving, lying, manipulating theives? Does that mean that they will never see God's love manifest because they aren't "living right"?
Why do we so often convince ourselves that God's love for us, is based on how much we search Him out? It isn't! It's soley based on HIS love for US. We can't DO anything to get Him to love us anymore then He already does. True, you might be living a "right" life, which I'm not at ALL condoning, that is absolutely AWESOME and how this world will change. I'm simply saying, God loves You just as much as He does the person that is struggling with pornography, smoking pot and drinking. The difference? You are deciding to LET Him show you that He loves you, they aren't. (God is always trying to show us His love, but we're just to stubborn to actually let Him sometimes).. So, when something happens in your life, you slip up, mess up or just plain fall into the same sin over and over, realize God loves you just as much now as He did when He first started to form you in your Mommy's belly :)
When you worship God, realize, He loves you! Regardless! Not because you haven't (majorly) sinned this week, or done anything wrong. (Cause really, what are we defining as "sin" here? Where are we drawing the "sin" lines? ... a small sin is just as wrong as a "big" sin...)
Basically, I just want you to know and realize that you can do absolutely NOTHING to "get" God to love you more than He already does. Nor can you do anything to make Him stop, or delute His crazy, passionate, burning love for You.
Face it! You're stuck with the Creator of everything,(even you!) being sooooo madly in love with you, forever and ever.Wether you accept that or not is completely up to you. You just can't do anything to get Him to stop loving you ;)
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