Why Would God Love Me When He Is aware of How Sinful I Am?
God’s Nice Love
Why would God ever love me, figuring out how sinful I’m? Effectively, after all, that’s what makes the love of God so astounding—it isn’t repelled by our sins or our failures. We learn in Psalm 103 that it’s exactly as a result of God is aware of that we’re frail and we’re fabricated from mud that he chooses to have compassion on us and love us like a father loves.
So there’s no method that we may ever stay a life that’s so excellent and so rid and devoid of sin that someway we may earn or benefit God’s love and his affection. The greatness of God’s love is exactly seen in the best way that he showers it down on those that deserve solely judgment and hell. That’s what makes God so marvelous. John says it in 1 John 3:1: “How nice is the love of God?”
The Steadfast Love of the Lord explores Scripture to discover a clear image of what God’s steadfast, unfailing love appears to be like like and the way, via the ministry of the Holy Spirit, believers expertise his affection.
Hear that coming from an aged man towards the top of his life, nonetheless amazed by the magnitude of God’s love. How nice is the love of God that we’re his youngsters? So once more, we must not ever enable the fact of our sin, which all of us have, to decrease our understanding of and our enjoyment of the truth that God says to us, I really like you anyway. In reality, Romans 5 tells us it was whereas we have been but sinners—whereas we have been nonetheless God’s enemies—that he liked us and gave his Son to die for us.
Sam Storms is the writer of The Steadfast Love of the Lord: Experiencing the Life-Altering Energy of God’s Unchanging Affection.
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