Sometimes it’s hard to picture what God’s love looks like. We read passages in the bible that describe it but how does that translate into the present and apply to our own lives? If your perspective of a situation is viewing it from the inside looking out it can be hard to see the big picture. God’s love is big and we don’t want to miss all of the subtle ways that He shows it. Here are some examples of how His love has followed you all your life.
The Lord has been with you since before you were born.
Jeremiah 1:5 says that God knew you before he even formed you in the womb. He set you apart and anointed you.
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
Jeremiah 1:5
The Lord knew you and loved you before you were first knit together with the flesh of man. He knew and loved you when your soul was but a flittering light past His eyes. He chose you and held you, your soul, in His hands and spoke over you.
He described the plans He had for your life and spoke goodness over you before He knit you together in your mother’s womb.
He chose you to walk with Him at this very point in time on the earth.
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
Psalm 139:13
He has watched over you all of your life.
He has loved you, blessed you, protected you and guided you all of your life. Through all of your difficult times, poor decisions, the dangerous choices you may have made. Even when you chose to sin, He was with you in your shame. He was with you in your pain and held your shattered heart when you felt broken.
The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.
Psalm 34:18
He pours out unconditional love.
Even when He poured out His love to you and you didn’t choose Him, He loved you. And when you were engulfed in your desire to sin, He still chose you. When you came to Him in humbleness to repent, he forgave you.
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 8:38-39
Who is a God like you, who pardons sin and forgives the transgression of the remnant of his inheritance? You do not stay angry forever but delight to show mercy.
Micah 7:18
This is unconditional love. There is nothing that you can do to make Him love you any more or any less as a child of God. He has loved you since the beginning. He loves you because He first knew you and created you and His love will never change.
The Lord loves you because you are His. My prayer for you today is that you allow yourself to feel God’s unconditional love. Get quiet before the Lord and let Him show you the times that He was offering His love to you even when it felt like you were doing life all wrong. Let Him show you how His love has followed you all of your life.
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