Monday, September 2, 2024

When You Are Loved

God made you. That means you were made by love divine. God made you to love and be loved. When you are loved, you find acceptance and purpose for your life. You love others, when you are loved. You have found the joy of life, to love and be loved.

To know God is to know love. Receiving our Lord Jesus Christ, we know God's love through the Holy Spirit. The Spirit of God alone can make God's love real to you. He is able to fill your life with God's love from day to day. Life is worth living, when you are loved.

For we know how dearly God loves us, because he has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with his love (Romans 5:5, NLT). To know God is to know real love, because God is love (1 John 4:8). Your heart was made to be filled with God's love. When it is not, your life can become empty. What a change in your life, when you are loved.

When you experience God's love, others see the difference in you. Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. Love does not demand its own way. Love is not irritable, and it keeps no record of when it has been wronged (1 Corinthians 13:4-5, NLT). God's love changes your relationship with others. That's when you are loved.