Faith-bearing Seed for the Soul
"While the earth remaineth,
Seedtime and harvest
....shall not cease"

Genesis 8:22

Doesn't ANYBODY Love Me?

What do you think really goes through the mind of a person who takes their life by suicide? If we could ask them after the fact, I think we might find that no matter how many times they may have been told that they were loved, they NEVER TRULY BELIEVED THAT THEY WERE.

If they believed in God, they certainly could not have believe that He really loved them, because in their way of thinking, "Why would I be suffering so much if God really loved me?"

We make lists...lists that say..."If you love me, you will do such and such."  We make those lists for God too, often determining His love by what He does or does not do for us...examples:

If God loved me:

I would not be sick... I could not have contracted this disease...  I would be prosperous and never suffer any needs...  That promotion would have been mine, not the other person's...  My children would not be acting like they are...  That loved one would not have died and been taken from me...

Our lists go on and on; we are inclined to believe that if God does not  fill them, then He must not love us! And, the thought process continues... if God doesn't love me, what's the use of trying, why even live? These are lies from the pit of hell! If Satan can get you to believe these lies, he can control your destiny.

When Jesus was tempted to turn away from God by the devil and commit suicide by throwing Himself off of the cliff, how did He overcome? He said,  "IT IS WRITTEN!" When Lucifer overcame Eve, and Adam, how did he do it? He said, "Hath not God SAID?" He began to twist in Eve's mind what God had clearly said. He got her to buy the lie! God has made a covenant with us...He WROTE OUT His promises! He saw from the very beginning that Satan would come to us and try to talk us out of what He has said. God made an agreement with us in writing... it is called the Bible. Satan cannot stand against the written Word of God.

Oral agreements are not binding any more. Just try to go to the bank and orally promise to pay them back so many dollars per month for the item they loaned you the money for, without a written contract! Even in sincerity, an oral contract can be misunderstood, so we write it out and sign the dotted line. God signed the dotted line of His promise that He loves us, and that we can live with Him forever, with the shed blood of  His Son Jesus Christ.

God has clearly written down when He began to love us so that we cannot be talked out of it by the devil. No longer can we ask, "Doesn't ANYBODY love me?" For it is written that God loves us, along with when He began...

God didn't start loving us when we became good enough to be loved... God IS LOVE, (I John 4:16) and He has loved us ever since He has been. He  loved Jesus, according to John 17:14, "before the foundation of the world."  Jesus prayed (John 17:21)..."Thou, Father...has loved them, as thou hast loved me." He has loved us from the foundation of the world...It is written!

Romans 5:8 (Emphasis mine)

God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us WHILE WE WERE STILL SINNERS.

I'm not worthy to be loved, but that changes nothing, God still loves me because He IS love. As Christians, God will not turn from loving us if we do something wrong or make a mistake...He will correct us, but not stop loving us because of Christ Jesus' sacrifice and His very own nature.

Romans 5:15

For this one man, Adam, brought death to many through his sin. But this man Jesus Christ, brought forgiveness to many through God's mercy.

I John 5:11-13 (Emphasis mine)

And what is it that God has said? That he has given us eternal life, and that this life is in his Son. So whoever has God's Son has life; whoever does not have his Son, does not have life. I HAVE WRITTEN this to you who believe in the Son of God so that you may know you have eternal life.

How it must grieve the heart of God when we believe the lie that we are not loved by Him... When our "lists" dictate the extent of God's love to us. God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, and we can know that we have eternal life because...

"Yes, Jesus loves me ... yes, Jesus love me ... yes, Jesus loves me ... the Bible tells me so!" Because He loves me, I can trust that He will NEVER leave me nor forsake me. I am not alone... Yes, SOMBODY loves me and I have so much to live for! Selah!

Planted and rooted in the love of Christ Jesus,

Marlene,

Texas Seed Sower

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