The Lord has appeared of old unto me, saying, I have
loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore
with loving kindness have I drawn thee.
Jeremiah 31:3
How amazing! How wonderful!
loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore
with loving kindness have I drawn thee.
Jeremiah 31:3
How amazing! How wonderful!
God loves me. And even when I was unaware of it, the Lord was already at work, drawing me to Him.
It took many years for me to accept this truth. In my ignorance, and because of my feelings of shame at the bad things I had done, I felt unworthy of God's love. I spent years trying to push away the idea that He truly loves me. I so foolishly thought that I was an exception. Loving others, yes. But loving me, not so.
Yet one day, during a Wednesday evening worship service in the chapel at Sullivan Correctional Facility, the minister was preaching from the Old Testament book of Micah the prophet. He was reading the Scripture how the Lord has taken all our sins, and cast them into the depths of the sea, "never to be remembered anymore" (Micah 7:18-20).
It was as if a light went off inside me. I began to receive and accept my heavenly Father's love, and His forgiveness, as well. I also began to understand that my birth was not an accident. That the Lord knew me even while I was being formed in my mother's womb. Yes, the Lord was overjoyed when my tiny body entered into the world.
His love for me is still beyond my comprehension, but now I could receive this wonderful truth in my heart, without doubting. The Bible declares that "God is love" (1 John 4:8 and 1 John 4:16).
As I explained in yesterday's writing, nothing could ever separate us from God's love toward us. Not demons, depression, sickness, or even our sinful actions and shortcomings, could make the Lord stop loving us. This is a marvelous truth. We should accept it and rejoice in it.
D.B.
It took many years for me to accept this truth. In my ignorance, and because of my feelings of shame at the bad things I had done, I felt unworthy of God's love. I spent years trying to push away the idea that He truly loves me. I so foolishly thought that I was an exception. Loving others, yes. But loving me, not so.
Yet one day, during a Wednesday evening worship service in the chapel at Sullivan Correctional Facility, the minister was preaching from the Old Testament book of Micah the prophet. He was reading the Scripture how the Lord has taken all our sins, and cast them into the depths of the sea, "never to be remembered anymore" (Micah 7:18-20).
It was as if a light went off inside me. I began to receive and accept my heavenly Father's love, and His forgiveness, as well. I also began to understand that my birth was not an accident. That the Lord knew me even while I was being formed in my mother's womb. Yes, the Lord was overjoyed when my tiny body entered into the world.
His love for me is still beyond my comprehension, but now I could receive this wonderful truth in my heart, without doubting. The Bible declares that "God is love" (1 John 4:8 and 1 John 4:16).
As I explained in yesterday's writing, nothing could ever separate us from God's love toward us. Not demons, depression, sickness, or even our sinful actions and shortcomings, could make the Lord stop loving us. This is a marvelous truth. We should accept it and rejoice in it.
D.B.
