God is love

And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.  God is love.  Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.  1 John 4:16

We who believe in God say this all the time, but do we really believe it in our hearts and live like we believe it?  God has been teaching me about His love for the past year and a half.  I hit a point in my life where I didn't love myself, and I couldn't believe that God loved me either.  But, God gave us His word, the Bible, and it is filled with the truth about how He feels about us.  Over and over He calls us His children and His friends.  John 3:16 tells us that God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.  God gave the most precious thing He had, Jesus, to save me from eternal death and to make a way for me to have relationship with Him.

It is so simple.  God loves us and He wants us to love Him.  Deuteronomy 6:5 says, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength."  We make being a Christian so complicated...a list of do's and don'ts.  But, the bottom line is this...God loves us and we love Him...end of story.  What a great relationship!

We have an enemy who wants to steal from us, kill us, and destroy us.  He hates our love relationship with God and will do anything to separate us.  Much of the time, we make it easy for him.  We believe the lies and the deception that he throws at us trying to convince us that we aren't good enough for God to love us.  

Here's the TRUTH...

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.  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, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.  Romans 8:37-39

The devil doesn't have to power to separate us from God unless we let him.  We get to choose.  I choose to believe the truth...God is love and He loves me!