God did not choose me because I had anything compelling to offer him or because of my spiritual gifts. Though this verse was for Israel, the same principle applies to me. It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples, but it is because the Lord loves you. Speaking to the people of Israel, God said: He wouldn’t have chosen me to be saved if he didn’t possess an extravagant love for me. Though the doctrine of predestination may seem mysterious or confusing, one thing is NOT confusing: the reason God predestined me to be saved was that he really, truly loved me. As Ephesians 1 puts it, “In love he predestined us…” Why did he choose me? Because he loved me with a deep, profound, inexplicable love. Before I had done anything good or bad, God decided that he was going to forgive my sins and adopt me in Jesus Christ. Scripture makes it very clear that in eternity past, God chose me to be saved. Here are five different ways that Scripture tells me that God loves me.

I simply need to take hold of these truths to the point where they move me from knowing that God is love to the point where I feel and believe that God is love. Scripture makes it abundantly, overwhelmingly clear just how crazy God is about me. So how can I grow in this experiential knowledge of God’s love? I don’t think it’s complicated. Just like I want my children to both know and experience my love, I believe that God wants me to know and experience the staggering, glorious, life-giving reality that God loves me. If you were to ask me if God loves me, I’d say, “Yes, of course!”īut when it comes to actually experiencing the reality that God loves me – that’s sorely lacking on my part.Īnd while I’m not a believer in elevating feelings and experiences over the rock-solid truth of God’s word, I do think it’s important that I both believe that God loves in my head and actually experience God’s love in my heart. Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so. The first type of knowledge – head knowledge – is never lacking on my part. It’s something else altogether to believe it so deeply and strongly that it utterly transforms every aspect of my life. After all, the one Bible verse everyone knows is John 3:16: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”īut here’s the thing: it’s one thing to have head knowledge about God’s love. The fact that God loves me is basically Christianity 101.

Despite the fact that I’ve been a Christian for 25 years, there are times when I still wonder if God loves me.

Love me love me say that you love me