Why would anyone think God does not or could not love them? God loved the world—every decent person to the most despicable ones who will ever live—so much that He gave His only Son to pay sin’s penalty. Jesus, the sinless Christ, took death’s blow that we deserved, paying the price for our missing the mark of perfection: “Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins” (1 John 4:10). Everyone who believes in Him (confesses their sins, trusts and surrenders their lives to Him) will not die in their sins but spend eternity with God (John 3:16).
God will not love you or me more or less. He is the never changing and trustworthy God who made us in His image (Gen 1:26). God is love: He lives in those who confess that Jesus is His Son, and believers live in Him (1 John 4:15–16). When we fail, and we will, His steadfast love remains. Even when God rejected Esau for selling his birthright and favored Jacob, He didn’t love one more than the other. But make no mistake, God will display His disfavor towards and discipline those who choose the way of unrighteousness. All those who reject His gift of eternal life through Jesus separate themselves forever from the God who loves them.
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