Jesus said, “The Father Himself loves you because you have loved Me and have believed that I came from God.” (John 16:27)
Who’s giving you a rough time because you’re trusting God, saying things like, “If God really loved you, He would heal you”? Or, “If God really loved you, He wouldn’t have allowed you to lose your job”? Or, “If God really loved you, He would bring your spouse back”?
It’s wicked for others to make you doubt God’s love. The proof of His love is the cross. Romans 5:8 says, “God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (NKJV).
The cruelest of the taunts hurled at Jesus on the cross was surely the suggestion that included the words “if He is the Christ of God, the Chosen One” (Luke 23:35, italics mine). In other words, if God really loved Jesus, He wouldn’t have allowed His Son to be in that situation.
But even in the blackness of the hate around the cross, the love of God broke through like the rays of the sun! If God really loved you? There’s no if about it. God loves you.
God loves you!
-- Anne Graham Lotz in “Fixing My Eyes on Jesus: Daily Moments in His Word”
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