Do you believe that God loves you?
I mean really, really loves you?
Not just in a generic, we are the world, God loves everybody, kind of way.
But in an intense, deeply personal, you’re my child, kind of way.
My goal is to convince you, to persuade you beyond the shadow of a doubt that God loves you with a love so profound it’s beyond your comprehension.
Because when you believe in and experience God’s love, it changes everything.
Let’s look at Bible verses about God’s love.
1. God Is Love
First and foremost, God IS love. That’s who He is.
1 John 4:7-8 says, “Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.”
God’s great love for us flows out of His character. When He looks at you, loves flows out of Him toward you because God is love.
2. God Loves You Because He Created You
Psalm 139:13-14 says, “For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.”
You are not an accident. God himself created you, fearfully and wonderfully crafting every facet of your being. Every fiber of your DNA is the result of God’s master craftsmanship, and because he created you, He treasures you.
Have you ever created something and been absolutely thrilled with the results? That’s how God feels about you. He created you in his image. When he looks at you, he sees something of himself, and it fills him with joy.
After God created Adam, God looked at him and said, “Very good.” God says the same thing when he looks at you. You are his creation and he looks on you with great joy.
The very fact that God created you is proof God’s love for you.
3. Jesus Died For You As Proof Of God’s Love
What is the greatest way you can prove you love someone? By sacrificing for them. And what is the greatest sacrifice a person can make for another? Giving up his life for them.
Which is exactly what God did for you.
If you’re looking for Bible verses about God’s love, look no further than what Jesus said in John 15:13, “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.”
Do you want unshakeable, unmistakable, unbreakable proof that the love of God? Look no further than Jesus dying for you on the cross. On that bloody, splintered cross, God himself died for you.
In John 3:16, we read this amazing Bible verse about God’s love: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”
God. Died. For. You.
Ponder the enormity of those words. The Immortal One submitted to death. The Giver of Life allowed himself to be swallowed by darkness. The King of Kings was humiliated.
For you. The love of God for you is greater than you could possibly imagine. Because God’s love for you is so extravagant that he was willing to sacrifice his son to save you.
When We Were Still Sinners, Christ Died For Us!
Romans 5:7-8 is an amazing Bible verse about God’s love:
For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
God sent His son into the world to save sinners! Not people who have their life together. Not those who have done all the right things and made all the right choices.
Tim Keller puts it like this:
The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me.
Do you believe that God loves you so much that Jesus was glad to die for you?
I John 3:16 says, “By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us…”
Jesus willingly went to the cross for you. Why? Because God’s love for you is so very, very strong.
4. God Adopted You Into His Family
If the only thing God gave you was the forgiveness of sins, it would be proof enough that God loves you. But he’s gone so much gloriously further than that. God has also adopted you as his own beloved child.
Ephesians 1:4-5 puts it this way, “In love he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will…”
I have friends who adopted two children from Uganda. It cost them thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours to make the adoption happen.
Why did they go to such effort? Because they deeply love those two children.
Adoption is always an act of staggering love.
God wasn’t content to simply forgive you. God loves you with such an intense affection that he wouldn’t rest until he brought you into his family.
Now you are one of those called children of God. As God’s child, he loves to pour out blessing after blessing on you.
Just like I love to give gifts to my children, so God takes deep pleasure in blessing you.
Because you are a child of God.
J.I. Packer puts it this way:
You sum up the whole of New Testament religion if you describe it as the knowledge of God as one’s holy Father. If you want to judge how well a person understands Christianity, find out how much he makes of the thought of being God’s child, and having God as his Father.
What do you make of the reality that God is truly and really your Father? It should absolutely change the way you live.
Being adopted by God changes everything. It is unmistakable proof of the deep love of God for you.
5. God Loves You And He Is Praying For You
Who do you pray for most? It’s the people you deeply love, right?
You pray for your children, your spouse, your parents, your close friends. You want God to do good to them and so you passionately intercede on their behalf.
Did you know that both Jesus and the Holy Spirit are praying to the Father for you? That’s how much love God has for you.
Jesus and the Spirit are constantly asking the Father to do good to you and the Father takes great joy in answering their prayers.
Romans 8:26 says, “Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.”
There are times when you’re weak, weary, and don’t even know what to pray. But the Holy Spirit himself intercedes for you.
When your prayers are nothing more than groans, the Spirit pleads with the Father to give you exactly what you need, and the Father joyfully responds.
Why does the Holy Spirit pray for you? Because God loves you.
Romans 8:34 says, “Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.”
Just as the Holy Spirit prays for you, so Jesus also intercedes on your behalf. He prays that God would deliver you from the condemning accusations of Satan.
He prays that God would keep you from evil. Just like Jesus prayed for his disciples, so Jesus is constantly praying for you.
Doesn’t that encourage you and warm your heart with affection for God?
Why does Jesus pray for you? Because God loves you with an unfathomable love.
6. God Loves You And Is Faithful To You
How many times has God been faithful to you throughout your life?
How many prayers has he answered? How many times has he protected you or kept you from making a stupid decision? How many times has he strengthened you when you were weak?
Thousands upon thousands.
Why? Because God is faithful to those he loves, and God loves you deeply.
God’s Love Endures Forever!
Psalm 86:5 says, “For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love to all who call upon you.”
God’s love for you is steadfast. It’s a faithful, unshakable, immovable love. God was faithful to save you and he will continue to be faithful as he makes you into the image of Jesus Christ.
Philippians 1:6 says, “And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.”
This verse describes the profound depths of God’s faithful love toward you. He began a good work in you and you can be absolutely sure that he will also finish it.
Would God be faithful to you if he didn’t love you? Absolutely not. God is faithful to you because God loves you.
Powerful Bible Verses About God’s Love
John 3:16 – “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”
1 John 4:9-11 – “This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.”
Romans 8:37-39 – “No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 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.”
Psalm 136:26 – “Give thanks to the God of heaven. His love endures forever.”
Ephesians 2:4-5 – “But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions-it is by grace you have been saved.”
Psalm 86:15 – “But you, Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness.”
1 John 3:1 – “See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.”
Deuteronomy 7:9 – “Know therefore that the Lord your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commandments.”
The Ocean of God’s Love
Charles Spurgeon said it like this:
If a man could know that he was loved by all his fellowmen, if he could have it for certain that he was loved by all the angels, yet these were but so many drops, and all put together could not compare with the main ocean contained in the fact that “God loved us.”
Are you convinced beyond the shadow of a doubt that God loves you? I hope you are.
When you know that God loves you, it frees you to follow him with joy and gladness. It allows you to throw off the chains of legalism and run hard after God, knowing that you’re his beloved child.
Don’t doubt God’s love any longer. Take to heart the glorious words of 1 John 3:1:
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are.
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Good read, Thank you for writing it. Appreciate all your insight.
Thank you for the article! When I typed in, “does God love me?”, this popped up. This is the greatest news ever! ?
You said: God Loves You Because He Created You
1. I disagree with your use of the word “created” because, when God creates, He speaks. And apart from Adam, the Bible has no record that God ever spoke anyone else into existence. It would be more accurate to say that God “made” you. This is so because you and I, and every human being is the product of a sexual act between a male (your daddy) and a female (your mother). Daddy planted, mommy watered but God formed or gave increase to our bodies while we were yet in our mother’s womb. (1 Cor. 3:6)
2. Apart from Adam, the Bible has no record that God spoke anyone else into being and the Adam who was spoken into existence was a 100% spirit being! (Genesis 1:27) Note in Genesis 5:2 that God gave Adam his name before He took the dust of Genesis 2:7a and formed a body for Adam. The created Adam was a spirit. (Genesis 1:27) The formed Adam was hu-man, or dust plus spirit. As for Eve, her inner spirit-man was created simultaneously with Adam’s, but her body was formed from Adam’s rib. Adam’s body was formed from the dust of the ground. (Gen. 2:7) God went to the dust only one time. He never went back. 7.4 Billion people. Our bodies are all made of dust. That reality hits home when we keep our appointment with death and we are put to rest. (Hebrews 9:27)
Psalm 139:13-14 ESV says, “For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.”
Pss.139:13-14: KJV – [13] For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb. [14] I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
You said: God Loves You And He Died For You
I do not dispute, neither do I deny that Jesus Christ died for you, me and everyone else. But I question both the accuracy of the ESV translation and your interpretation of it.
First, the ESV says “greater love has no one”, the KJV says “Greater love has no man”. The emphasis is on the word “man”. “MAN” is either a created or a pro-created spirit-being who is both male and female and he resides in the body of every living human being. “ONE” is an impersonal pronoun that could refer to someone who is either male or female, and most likely, will refer to a human being rather than to the spirit who lives within his or her body.
Secondly, the ESV says “that someone lay down his life for his friends”, but the KJV says that “a man lay down his life for his friend.” As I see it when you switch “man” for someone” or “one” you open the door for wrong interpretation especially for someone who has no prior knowledge or limited knowledge of the scripture.
Thirdly, the ESV says that “someone lay down his life for his friends” and you interpreted that “someone” to be Jesus Christ because you said, “He died for you.”. But the Bible tells me that “God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:8) James 4:4 tells us that “whosoever, therefore, will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.” And, Romans 5:10 tells us “For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
It seems to me, therefore, that when Christ died on Calvary’s cross, He did not die to save his “friends” but rather, he died so His enemies could be saved. And who were His enemies? Everyone. On crucifixion day, even the 12 apostles who were closest to him, deserted him. And, Romans 3:23 tells us that we are all born in sin and have come short of the glory of God. Also, Ephesians 2:1a, tells us that we were born dead in trespasses and sins. We do not become friends of God until we repent and accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. (Romans 10:9)
Now, if the above is true, then when the Bible says “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends” I submit that the man who laid down his life for his friend was Adam. I say that because when Eve sinned, according to the word of God, she died immediately! (Gen. 2:17) Think about it: If Adam had not eaten of the tree, Eve would have died alone, she would have been separated from God eternally and this explanation would have been unnecessary. But, when Adam ate, in so doing he sacrificed the entire human race who were as yet resident in his loins.
Therefore, when Adam ate, he demonstrated this “greater love” because when he did, he disobeyed God and thus he sacrificed his own life (and the lives of the entire human race) which he lived in the presence of God.
Please note, the Bible says: “Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice” (1 Samuel 15:22) Adam disobeyed and because He did, God had to sacrifice his only begotten Son. The greater love was when Adam laid down his life preferring instead to die with Eve, rather than live without her in paradise. The greatest love was when God sent his Son to die for us so we could be redeemed and restored into right fellowship with him.
As Jesus said in John 15:13, ESV “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.”
John.15 KJV [13] Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
You are just confusing yourself,pray for the holy spirit to teach you,to open your eyes and behold the wondrous work of his word,and also lean not unto your own understanding.
Great post ..Everyone must know that God loves us infinitely,without limits,without stoppage…he loves us constantly and steadily and faithfully.
GOD sucks I have 53 years of proof, the do nothing deadbeat father just the one I had as a kid. I didn’t ask for this life I don’t want this life. so if GODS love me than why all the trauma over the years, brother suicide or maybe after you get set on fire or years later get a finger ripped off your body,. you’d question GODS love , 53 years of waiting for one good thing.
Rich,
I pray that God will use the pain you have endured for a mighty message in your life. When we give the pain to Him that is when He can begin to heal you. What the enemy uses for harm God will turn it for something good. The enemy comes to steal, kill & destroy, but I have come that they may have life and live it in abundance, to the full until it overflows.”- John 10:10.
You may have a lot of anger, resentment, bitterness and hatred for what happened in your life, but there is a God who has gone through all of it. And He’s willing to go through the pain, the hurt, and the anger with you. I tell you out of experience, please give it to Him. The longer we hold onto the pain of our past it will cloud the things that God has for your future and it prevents the Holy Spirit from working in your life.
This may not be the answer you are/ were looking for, but I know this is what God asked me to tell you.
God loves you. Still. Always and forever.
Lauren
god doesn’t exist stop wasting your time from these Christian webpoops
the way i look at it after getting started reading the Bible, i started thinking if there is not no such of thing as God i do not have nothing to worry about BUT if there is a God Brother i have Got a lot to Worry about so i am going Gods Way. (IT IS ALL UP TO US) i always say if a person does not believe in God they will when they Get where they are going, you will always be in my Prayers, Blessings coming your way. Barb.
Thank you sir
Hi. I can completely relate to your post. Thanks for writing it. I have lived through so much trauma too, and the suicides of those I love. Life is hard. It’s the truth. I feel sometimes that one of the few good things that did happen to me was finding the love of God. I was desperate, and prayed for weeks, and eventually I felt it. I didn’t look for God because it was the right thing to do, nor because I was told to, I was just at the end, with no where else to go.
I hear your pain. I can only hope you find some relief and gentleness soon. I actually do enjoy some days now. I hope you will too. Bless you for your honesty. I hope God’s lovong wings will protect you through your pain.
I came across this article when I felt something tell me to look up “God loves you with all His might”. I looked it up and this article stood out to me. This article has blessed me very much. Thank you & God bless you.
I’m atheist, and I’m reading this for an assignment. Can anyone answer me this? Why would God create mosquitoes that carry malaria to young children and kill them for no reason? They did nothing wrong. And what if they did not believe in God? Would they die a cruel death and then go to hell for eternity? I don’t see why someone depicted as “all-loving” and “humble” would do such a thing.
Hi El,
I used to be agnostic (a stronger position than atheist, since I believed in nothing). If I were to give you a chair and ask you to sit, you could choose to ignore the request because the chair is ‘not pretty enough’ (or whatever excuse you want) — which has nothing to do with the ability of the chair to support you. No belief in the chair only affects you, and has no affect on the chair. God IS, and always will BE, whether you believe or not.
There is a natural order to how the world works. Animals predate other animals. It is not a matter of ‘love’ in any way. An animal (or insect) is merely a creature that man has the option to control (Genesis 1:28).
You are basically asking the age-old question — Why does God allow suffering? The simplest answer is: Because man chooses it. Test God. He will show Himself. It is just like the chair situation. You can choose to stand there on your own and get tired (i e, suffer on your own) or you can trust in the concept of chair/(God) accept it, and sit down.
With no acceptance, God will remain unseeable to you. Once you pt faith in Him, you will start to see His love.
God’s word is alive! Every word placement, every yod and tittle, Matthew 5:18. Ivan Panin discovered numerical codes in the Bible that are impossible to recreate even using thousands of super computers over several eons! Anyone who says God is not real has not done any research. The proof is there! And yes, God’s love is real and he loves me! Eternity is a long time to be separated from that love. Ask Jesus to forgive you and just surrender and you will be given a peace that surpasses all understanding. Phillippians 4:7
Thank you so much!
I am having an exceedingly difficult time believing God really loves me, cares about my happiness or contentment, or that the quality of my life matters to Him at all. Now when I am the most desperately dependent on Him that I’ve ever been, hurting more than ever before, seeking Him more than ever before, being obedient more than ever before, and praying by far by far by far harder than ever before. I beg God over and over every day to intervene in my situation and I’ve been doing that for over 200 days straight now, crying rivers of tears on my knees– suffering intensely every day and now I don’t even want to exist because every day is guaranteed torture. And I know it would be way too good for God to allow me happiness or a miracle. It would be way too good to be true for Him to answer the most important prayer in my life when I need Him the most. I have enjoyed so little of life, have been extremely sad, inordinately lonely, not knowing anything about having life abundantly. I know God can lavish His amazing goodness on others and give them wonderful testimonies about His extraordinary love– but He absolutely refuses refuses REFUSES to do that for me. It’s like He either doesn’t care or wants me to suffer until I cannot take it anymore and have to end it all for once and for all. I’m so sick of hating life every day, begging God for help, waiting and waiting, knowing it would be way too good to be true for God to come through for me. I’m not allowed to experience His supreme love and goodness which I hear so many others talk about.
Daniel, I could have written what you wrote myself. I relate entirely. I’m middle-aged and am fully aware that God loves so many. Yet no evidence He loves me. I have served, testified, missioned, worshipped. I’m at a complete loss to understand why He ignores me. And if The Spirit does pray on my behalf, as the article says, well then, God ignores those prayers, too. Life is not a blessing to all, it seems some of us were born to be an example of suffering ONLY.
I think I am going through this right now. How did you get through this? Did He ever come through?
Thank You Father for Loving Your Children!
Thank You for this Brother being here, sharing of Your Truths – stay blessed Brother – see You in Heaven
GOD LOVES NO ONE BUT HIMSELF!
This article is a complete and utter evil lie! Also, verses from the Bible does not prove God LOVES humans, it’s just a book, and it will always be “just a book” that makes ridiculous claims. If God truly “loved everyone” has you claimed, he would NOT burn people forever in the greatest of all agonies. That is just profound evil. Even Satan could not cause such misery.
Secondly, why worship a God of pure hatred??? I know for 100% fact he despises me! Why should I worship him? What good has he ever done? Nothing! I believed in God, I had hopes, dreams, and was happy, until I have my heart to Jesus. He stomped on it, s.h.i.t on it, used it for his own selfish gain, and left me in the gutter.
If only I had known then what I know now, I would have told the Christian preaching to me to get lost, and I would have run. But I was decieved. Now the veil is lifted, I see the truth. Christianity is rubbish. Utter useless rubbish.
Hello,
Scripture doesn’t actually prove God’s love for us. Anyone can say that they love you. Until that love is physically demonstrated there is no way to prove their claim. I believe that Jesus died for mankinds benefit but I have no actual proof. I’m sorry to say but written words alone don’t demonstrate love. All I have is a written account (Bible) of things that can’t actually be proven. When God does something tangible to prove His love is the day that doubt stops. Without proof there will always be doubt to some degree.
God bless you, in Jesus holy name, Amen.
God loves you, BUT if you don’t adopt the right beliefs, he will hold you to an impossible standard, and subject you to infinite torture that is worse than non-existence for not being as glorious as he is.
Stupid Christian,
I’m curious why you’re here if you believe that God doesn’t exist. Wasn’t it God who lead you here?
Hello,
I have never experienced God’s love for me. Never see anything that proves God loves me. I am so tired of people saying that Jesus was the greatest show of God’s love for me. Jesus was thousands of years ago, not during my life. I didn’t see Jesus die for me thus no personal experience of love there. (not in my lifetime) God loves me because He created me. Give me a break. God created me to be tortured daily by His absence and silence. That isn’t demonstrating love. That demonstrates malice not love, indifference at the least. Besides, the Bible makes it clear that God doesn’t love us, just the copies of Jesus that He wants us to be. If God loves us, then why does He want us to change. He wants us to become what He loves. 42+ years of nothing but silence,absence, broken promises, and unanswered prayers from God shows me that God doesn’t care. Thanks
God bless you, through the Holy Spirit, in Jesus holy name, Amen.
How is a book proof? I’ve never seen proof. I never seen God keep any kind of promise to me. He has never awnsered any prayer, EVER.
I appreciate your enthusiasm, but as a recovering Christian I disagree with you on more points than I can cover here. But let’s start here:
1. God created everything in the Universe.
2. Therefore God created Satan. (Sorry, but no KJV alternate translation refutes this, so don’t insult me by trying to pretend mistranslation.)
3. God gave Satan and Man free will.
4. God told Adam and Even not to do certain things, lest eternal punishment awaits. But think about this – God is NOT love. If you really loved your kids but lived near a busy street, you wouldn’t simply tell your kids (or write a note) warning them that terrible things can happen if they disobey and play in the street. No, you would ENSURE that eternal punishment wouldn’t be a possibility, that there would be no possible way of eternal damnation, or do you want to pretend that as you torture them over infinity you really love them?
5. This brings us to a major problem with God. He is conceited and arrogant. He created us just so we could worship him – or else.
6. God is not love. “It’s either you love me or I will torture you in Hell forever.” Gee, which option would you pick? I’ll tell God that I love him all the time if it means I don’t get sent to Hell. “Love me or I’ll torture you forever.” Wonderful choice.
7. God is not love – God is death. God doesn’t care what dreadful tragedies happen to you during your life – he’s merely salivating at the prospect of your upcoming death so he can judge you, condemn you, and torture you.
8. It’s like being on a highwire act in a circus. You’re trying to hang on to a wire 50 feet above the ground (certain death if you fall), but God has given Satan free will to do anything and everything possible to make you fall. No, there’s no safety net – lol!!! So hang on until God’s dutiful servant Satan knocks you off the wire into Hell.
Thank you for the very helpful article