Who would not want to be loved? It is in our nature to desire love and acceptance; to be reassured by someone that we are indeed wanted and that our presence matters.
Unfortunately, love, true love, seems to become scarcer every day. Rejection or mistreatment from a parent, from friends, or from significant others cause traumas that leave people broken and ignorant of what actual love feels like. And those who do not receive love cannot give it to others.
How can we know love if we do not receive it from the people around us? We go to the source, and that source is God.
“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16)
This verse show that the Creator of all things, seeks to have a personal relationship with you. Jesus-Christ suffered and died on the cross and was resurrected on the third day so that YOU could be reconciled with the Father. He made a way for you to know Him and to gain awareness of His love.
“And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abide in love abides in God, and God in him.” (1 John 4:16 – NKJV)
God is not just the author of love; He is love itself. As you spend time in in his presence, that love grows stronger and deeper in you. As the apostle Paul says in Ephesians 3:17-19:
“17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.”
The love of God has dimensions; it is wide, long, high, and deep – this description always makes me think of the cross extending in all four directions without end. That said, His love is meant to be discovered; we are to grow in its knowledge and in our ability to both receive and give it.
We may all have different reasons for coming to accept Jesus as Lord and Savior, whether it is through healing, wisdom, revelation, but at the source of it all is the love of God. So, if love was lacking in your life; if no one ever showed you the love of God, if no one ever made you feel accepted, know that His love is always readily available to you. God gives it to you and desires for you to receive it. You are wanted by Him, and you matter to Him more to than you know.
On that note,
Go conquer.