Is It Really True?

Do you ever actively forget something?

I mean, there are things that I know deep down are true, but sometimes I actively live and act like they aren’t.

They are simple things that I have been taught since childhood, but adulthood seems to have taken a toll on me. My thoughts and actions seem to have forgotten, and I find myself needing to reevaluate my belief.

Lately I’ve been trying to really digest that God loves me.

See, I told you it was simple.

If you ask me if God loves me, my answer would be a resounding “YES!”, but somehow in my daily life I still act like I need to make sure that He keeps loving me. I know I don’t earn God’s love, but it doesn’t seem to stop me from feeling a pressure to try.

Does this sound familiar to you?

Do you have any thoughts like this?

I know God is revealing this, because as I write this the song “How He Loves Me” just came on my playlist. That’s not a coincidence. When he wrote it, David Crowder knew we would need this on repeat, over and over and over. I’ve got tears streaming down my face right now clinging to the truth of it.

I’ve got to hang onto it, and you’ve got to cling to it too because everything around us is shouting that it’s all a lie, that God’s love couldn’t possibly be true.

Romans and Ephesians both testify to the fact that God loved us before we had anything to give. He doesn’t need us; he just wants us.

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners,

Christ died for us.

Romans 5:8

But God is so rich in mercy, and he loved us so much, that even though we were

 dead because of our sins, he gave us life when he raised Christ from the dead.

(It is only by God’s grace that you have been saved!)

Ephesians 4:2-5

I repeat: He doesn’t need us; He just wants us.

I think that truth might be hard to receive for us Moms because we define ourselves so much by how we are needed. Being needed can give us identity, but that isn’t based on the right thing.

I give God human traits that He didn’t earn all the time. I imagine that He will let me down because others have. I don’t want to do that anymore. This is me saying that I am going to sit in this verse I have long loved in 1John:

So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love,

and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him (4:16).

I am not going to just know it; I am going to believe it.

God loves me. He wants me.

God loves you. He wants you.

He loved me when I was still in my sin, and He loves me today when I still fall short.

He is God, I refuse to define Him by the expectations that I have for people.

I am going to focus on the truth that I tell my children. I love them because they are mine, not because they are awesome.

God loves me because I am His.

God loves you because you are His.

You may also be awesome, but you can rest in His love on days that you are not.

Awesome doesn’t earn God’s love.

Do you believe He loves you?

Do you believe He loves you more when you are doing something for Him?

I read John 13 this week, it marks the beginning of Jesus last hours with the disciples. The first verse has stayed with me.

It was just before the Passover Festival. Jesus knew that the hour had come for him

to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world,

he loved them to the end.

He loved them because they were His own. He loved them to the end.

He loves you because you are His own. He loves you to the end.