Why does God love us so much?

[Arrabon]

This is kind of a rhetorical question.

Most of us know all the bible verses that answer the title question.

For many decades, I have been a person who lives daily with an attitude of gratitude.

Grateful for not only all the physical things like a home, but family and friends, and all the answered prayers.

But I've had Christian friends, who one day just changed and became someone I no longer knew.

Mean and hateful, with foul language aimed at me out of nowhere. Sometimes while helping them out, doing them a favor.

It's shocking and heartbreaking, when you invested your life in them, especially when it's a family member.

 

Lately, I have been going through two painful  health issues at the the same time, and God in His perfect wisdom, decides to clean the "DROSS" out of my life at the same time, using my health issues, and showing me my life for what it really is, when I was thinking how great I was doing, but living in denial.

What I see as so amazing, is that God will not only "NEVER," never, leave us or forsake us, as friends or family will. His love is PERFECT, and until you experience HIS LOVE, the verses that say He loves us, are just verses.

BUT...even though God has shown me what a "Wretched Man I am," and is expecting me to owe up to who I really am, and what I really do, as that "Wretched Man," and expects me to change, at the same time, He surrounds me with the most loving caring, professional, capable medical team, to care for me.

When I was at my best, caring and loving, as I saw myself, people turned on me. But when I was at my worst, God drew close to me, surrounding me with His love through this medical team who has been the picture of caring and perfection in their treatment of me, both as a patient and person.

For me, until you fully experience God's love through some action of God Himself, love of us by God in the bible will only be just words, which we all need to read and hear, but the experience of His love is truly something beyond words, to have happen to you first hand, when your feeling helpless, and at a loss for answers, and then God takes over, and miracles begin to happen.

I am still just living in amazement, as this medical team continues to find new ways to make my life better and healthier.

For me now, trying to describe God's love is beyond any earthly words I know. Truly beyond my ability to comprehend.

God bless you all.

Arrabon

Edited October 5, 2021 by Arrabon

[Waggles]

Why do good parents love their children? 

[Hopefully]

It really makes me feel good to think God loves me more than I love my child. It puts a big smile on my face and it’s so amazing.

[missmuffet]

This short question is among the most profound questions ever asked. And no human would ever be able to answer it sufficiently. One thing is certain, however. God does not love us because we are lovable or because we deserve His love. If anything, the opposite is true. The state of mankind since the fall is one of rebellion and disobedience. Jeremiah 17:9 describes man’s inner condition: “The heart is deceitful and desperately wicked. Who can know it?” Our innermost beings are so corrupted by sin that even we don’t realize the extent to which sin has tainted us. In our natural state, we do not seek God; we do not love God; we do not desire God. Romans 3:10-12 clearly presents the state of the natural, unregenerate person: “There is none righteous, no, not one; There is none who understands; There is none who seeks after God. They have all turned aside; They have together become unprofitable; There is none who does good, no, not one.” How then is it possible for a holy, righteous, and perfect God to love such creatures? To understand this we must understand something of the nature and character of God.

First John 4:8 and 16 tell us that “God is love.” Never was a more important declaration made than this—God is love. This is a profound statement. God doesn’t just love; He is love. His nature and essence are love. Love permeates His very being and infuses all His other attributes, even His wrath and anger. Because God’s very nature is love, He must demonstrate love, just as He must demonstrate all His attributes because doing so glorifies Him. Glorifying God is the highest, the best, and the most noble of all acts, so, naturally, glorifying Himself is what He must do, because He is the highest and the best, and He deserves all glory.

Since it is God’s essential nature to love, He demonstrates His love by lavishing it on undeserving people who are in rebellion against Him. God’s love is not a sappy, sentimental, romantic feeling. Rather, it is agape love, the love of self-sacrifice. He demonstrates this sacrificial love by sending His Son to the cross to pay the penalty for our sin (1 John 4:10), by drawing us to Himself (John 6:44), by forgiving us of our rebellion against Him, and by sending His Holy Spirit to dwell within us, thereby enabling us to love as He loves. He did this in spite of the fact that we did not deserve it. "But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8).

God’s love is personal. He knows each of us individually and loves us personally. His is a mighty love that has no beginning and no end. It is this experiencing of God’s love that distinguishes Christianity from all other religions. Why does God love us? It is because of who He is: "God is love."

https://www.gotquestions.org/God-love.html

Edited October 5, 2021 by missmuffet

[Arrabon]

4 minutes ago, Hopefully said:

It really makes me feel good to think God loves me more than I love my child. It puts a big smile on my face and it’s so amazing.

@Waggles

It's been a while since I have gone through a trial of this intensity, and I have grown a lot in that time without a trial, so I guess God thought it was time for another new level of growth in my faith, and a new time for more closeness with my CREATOR.

What still amazes is the difference between man's love and God's kind of love. They are many, many worlds apart.

[Hopefully]

3 minutes ago, Arrabon said:

What still amazes is the difference between man's love and God's kind of love. They are many, many worlds apart.

“And because you belong to Christ Jesus, God’s peace will stand guard over all your thoughts and feelings. His peace can do this far better than our human minds.”
‭‭Philippians‬ ‭4:7‬ ‭

[Arrabon]

8 minutes ago, missmuffet said:

God doesn’t just love; He is love.

@missmuffet

How is this even comprehended???

[Arrabon]

8 minutes ago, Hopefully said:

“And because you belong to Christ Jesus, God’s peace will stand guard over all your thoughts and feelings. His peace can do this far better than our human minds.”
‭‭Philippians‬ ‭4:7‬ ‭

@Hopefully

What I am discovering for myself, because of the way I think and analyze scripture for my growth, and am a bit intense, is the more I know God, and about God, the less I know God and about God, and the less I can comprehend His love for us all, and me.

His love simply blows me away.

Edited October 5, 2021 by Arrabon

[Hopefully]

7 minutes ago, Arrabon said:

the more I know God, and about God, the less I know God and about God,

“Don’t fool yourselves. Whoever thinks they are wise in this world should become a fool. That’s the only way they can be wise.”
‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭3:18‬ ‭

[Hopefully]

@Arrabon I don’t want to seem rude by replying only with scripture up there. What you were saying brought those verses to mind so I wanted to edify (uplift) you showing the word agrees with what you are saying. 

Edited October 5, 2021 by Hopefully