What kind of love is this?

“What kind of love is this?” There is never a day that I don’t think that. I am loved in the most unfathomable way. Until recently the thought was, “we are loved in the most unfathomable way”. For some reason it was really easy for me to understand, on some level, God’s great love for US, but I had a much more difficult time understanding His great love just for ME.

I once read a book with a conversation in it that forever has changed me. In the scenario Jesus tells a person that even if all of the torture, pain and death had been for just him, it would have been worth it. When I first read that several years ago, I could not stop crying. It struck a chord with me that I didn’t realize was so sensitive, and I think about it often.

I love telling people about how much God loves them. I believe it, and I know the impact that knowledge will have on a person’s heart. Now I am starting to see that this love is just the same for me, as an individual, as it is for us, as a group of people.

I wake up to His Word, and ask myself if I really believe it is true for ME.

Do I KNOW that His love for ME is deep, and wide, long and tall?

Do I KNOW that His love is not based on my performance?

Do I KNOW that He loved me long before I was even breathing in air?

Do I KNOW that He loved me prior to any thought of love I had towards Him?

Do I KNOW that I AM HIS?

Do I KNOW that God’s love for me was just as deep when I was separated from Him?

Do I KNOW that I was created in His image, to be a replica of His very nature?

Do I KNOW that God knows every inclination of my heart?

Do I KNOW that I was created with purpose, and that before the day has begun there are things planned out for me to do to bring Him glory?

Do I KNOW that I am loved with a love that will never know an end?

Do you?

Knowing these truths and living in them are two different things.

Walk in this knowledge: His love is FOR YOU.