Do you know how deeply loved you are?
You, yes, you.
You: with your financial problems and your weight problems and your marriage problems and your parenting problems. With your pride and insecurities and your addictions and your fears. With your secret sins and your shame and your sense of failure.
Your Father in Heaven loves you right here, right now. He’s not waiting for some future version of you. He’s not waiting until you get your act together. He’s not waiting to see if you make the A-Team.
You’re His child and He’s a good Father.
He never acts like a bad father. He is never harsh. Never aloof. Never disinterested. Never enraged. Think of the most amazing father you know–Those qualities–patient, kind, gentle, caring, providing, affectionate, interested, devoted. God is that times bajillion.
You are His dearly beloved.
I needed to be encouraged by that truth today-and so I thought you might too.
For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. 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. (Romans 5:6-8 ESV).
Oh Lord, give us faith to believe it.
