Why Does He Love Us?

“I don’t need to struggle for His love,” the young woman said, tears streaming down her face.

I was living in Budapest, Hungary, and I had just given a seminar to a group of Hungarian women. I started in Genesis and went through Revelation, explaining mankind's repeated rebellion and God's repeated forgiveness and love.

 

When I was done, this woman began weeping because - for the first time in her life - she realized the beauty of God's love.

Another woman looked at me with wonder and gratefulness and asked gently and reverently, “Why does He love us?” 

 

I had to tell her that I didn't know. There's no human explanation for God's love. It's unreasonable, unexplainable, beyond perfect.

 

He doesn’t love us because we are deserving. He loves us even though we aren’t.

God “does not treat us as our sins deserve” but loves us “while we [are] still sinners” (Psalm 103:10; Romans 5:8).

These women blessed me with their questions. It made me remember when I first understood what Jesus had done for me on the cross. 

 

I don't ever want to take God's love for granted. 

 

If you feel the same, let's memorize 1 John 3:1 and recite it every morning when we get out of bed!

 

"See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!"

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