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. . .Because He first loved us
Loving God is something I really, really struggle with, though that seems like an absurdity when I think about how much He loves me. Many of my favorite passages of scripture talk about God's love:
"See what kind of love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. . ."
{1 John 3:1}
". . . God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace."
{2 Thessalonians 2:16}
"For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation is able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
{Romans 8:38-39}
Those verses (as well as many more) along with songs such as "How Deep the Father's Love for Us" and "How He Loves" remind me SO intensely of God's immeasurable, unchangeable love for me, and yet, day after day after day after day I find that one of the most difficult things for me in my Christian walk is loving the Lord. I do love Him always, just not completely. It sometimes seems nearly impossible to give over my WHOLE heart to HIM, although He already holds it, along with the entire world and the entire universe in His hands. It's like I cannot let go. . .there's a verse in the gospel of Mark that I love so much:
". . .I believe; help my unbelief!"
{Mark 9:24}
Sometimes I feel the need to alter the wording in a prayer to the Lord, crying out, "I do love You; help me to love You!"
And yet in spite of my commitment issues to God, I find eternal comfort in the knowledge that no matter how much I struggle to love Him fully, He will always love me completely and perfectly, and that nothing in the whole wide world could ever change that love.
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