Today, You Are Loved!

When you find yourself truly in love with another individual, it is amazing how the imperfections disappear. You become so caught up in the beauty of love; you don’t recognize anything that might be wrong with the person’s image, personality, attitude or actions. Your world is that person!

When I see two people deeply entrenched in love, I can begin to get a picture in my mind of how GOD feels about us. He looks beyond the imperfections, the faults and the shortcomings. He looks beyond our daily failures preferring to gaze at the beauty and perfection He designed and created with His own hands.

In the Song of Solomon, we see a picture in words of God’s thoughts about us. Solomon wrote: “You have captured my heart, my treasure, my bride. You hold it hostage with one glance of your eyes, with a single jewel of your necklace. Your love delights me, my treasure, my bride. Your love is better than wine, your perfume more fragrant than spices” (SoS 4:9-10 NLT).

You are not simply a face in the crowd today. You are more than just a number. You are important to GOD. He enjoys watching you. He enjoys beholding the beauty that others fail to see. GOD is deeply in love with you and cherishes you as none other has ever done nor ever will. Today, you are loved more than you will ever know!

His intense desire is to have an eternal relationship with you. He made that possible by giving the ultimate gift for you—the life of His Son, Jesus Christ! Rather than write you off, He sent Jesus. Jesus paid for your sins and shortcomings, failures and disappointments with His own life blood so that GOD the Father could have that desired relationship with you.

God’s love for you cannot be changed by anything you say or do. He will love you if you turn and walk away, desiring only that you recognize your departure and return to the Father who waits with open arms. His arms are always open for you because He loves you today!

Scripture Reading: “And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 8:38-39 NLT).

Prayer: Father in heaven, Your intense love for me is beyond my ability to fully comprehend. Why You love and desire me, I don’t understand as I look at my life, as I look at the mess I have made of my life, as I look at how I so often walk away from Your perfect will and way for me, trying my own path, only to discover how wrong I have been. Yet, You do love me with a greater intensity than I will ever understand. Please, help me to love You, to long for You as You do me. Thank you for the forgiveness of my sins through Jesus and for not giving up on me…in Jesus’ name…AMEN!