When our children were small they had so many questions that started with why. We answered as many as we could and then we had to say “that’s just the way God made it”.
As I grew older, I’ve had my own “why” questions. Some I’ve asked of myself, and others have been asked of me by friends and strangers alike.
Why do you love the Lord? Why are you willing to stand for Him when others think that your ways and ideas are old fashioned, out of date, archaic and foolish? Why do you believe in a God you can’t see and why are you willing to base your life on His word?
Why?
How do you answer these questions to others and how do you answer them in your heart?
My answer in a nutshell – I love the Lord because He loved me first! In my 72 years of life my heavenly Father has never had a bad thought about me; He has never belittled me, never lied to me and He has never abandoned me, and He never will!
Has He approved of everything I’ve done? NO
Has He corrected and instructed me? ABSOLUTELY
He has loved me unconditionally and without shame.
My greatest form of worship is to love Him and then to love others as He has loved me.
“Dear friends, we should love each other, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has become God’s child. And so everyone who loves knows God. 8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 This is how God showed his love to us: He sent his only Son into the world to give us life through him. 10 True love is God’s love for us, not our love for God. He sent his Son as the way to take away our sins.
11 That is how much God loved us, dear friends! So we also must love each other. 12 No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us. If we love each other, God’s love has reached its goal—it is made perfect in us.
13 We know that we live in God and God lives in us. We know this because he gave us his Spirit. 14 We have seen that the Father sent his Son to be the Savior of the world, and this is what we tell people now. 15 Anyone who says, “I believe that Jesus is the Son of God,” is a person who lives in God, and God lives in that person. 16 So we know the love that God has for us, and we trust that love.
God is love. Everyone who lives in love lives in God, and God lives in them. 17 If God’s love is made perfect in us, we can be without fear on the day when God judges the world. We will be without fear, because in this world we are like Jesus. 18 Where God’s love is, there is no fear, because God’s perfect love takes away fear. It is his punishment that makes a person fear. So his love is not made perfect in the one who has fear. 19 We love because God first loved us.” I John 4:7-19 ERV
I pray that you have an intimate knowledge of how much God loves you – it’s life changing!