Accepting God's love
How can we accept that God loves us?
This actually stems from our inability to accept unconditional love, because the world has shown us a love that is conditional, and that's what we've come to accept. We reason it's not possible that God could love us unconditionally, just as we are, and with all our faults... and we have plenty of them, don't we? We as human beings are sinful, all of us, we've had thoughts that we shouldn't, and done things that we regret.
"but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me." - Romans 7:23
We know our thoughts and whether or not we share these inner most thoughts with others, God knows them... and we know this. So how can we expect God, who knows exactly what we think, to love us as we are?
The starting point of accepting, is knowing the Word of God, but more specifically, that the Word is true.
From a scientific standpoint, did you know that the dead sea scrolls were discovered in the late 1940's by a Shepherd boy? These scrolls are dated from 250 B.C - 68 A.D. Prior to this the earliest copy of the Hebrew bible was dated around 930 A.D. When experts compared the text from the dead sea scrolls with the text in the Hebrew bible, they found ~95% accuracy... from about 1000 years earlier. The bible truly is the Word of God; it's accuracy, testimony, and historical accounts are proven (a google search will bring up millions of results if you'd like to research the "scientific evidence").
Seeing that the bible is the Word of God, and knowing that God's word is true, then we must accept that He loves us like no one else can, 100% unconditionally. He sent His one and only son, Jesus, as the new covenant. Jesus came for us; to teach, love, serve, admonish, and to give His life for us. Accept that His words and promises are true, even though He knows our faults, He loves us!
Put your name in the blanks and know these statement to be true:
____________ I know your name
____________ I take great delight in you
____________ I gave My life for you
____________ I have loved you with an everlasting love
____________ nothing can separate you from My love
Accept that God loves you unconditionally.
Remind yourself of this by setting daily reminders in your phone. The more you see it, the more it's driven into your heart. And remember that God loves the people around you just as much, it's just that they don't know Him like you do.
From your family in Jesus Christ - let's make JESUS famous