Before you ever sought Him, before you even cared—God loved you. While you were lost, indifferent, or even defiant, Christ died for you. His love isn’t earned or diminished by failure; it is unshaken, unrelenting, and eternal. He poured it out through His Spirit, not just to save you, but to transform you into His own. Let this love fill you, renew you, and set your heart ablaze. You are loved beyond measure—right now, as you are. Will you receive it? The very thought of it should humble us, should break our pride, and should lift our hearts to praise. Paul writes…
“… God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us. You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly… God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:5-8, BSB).
It is love that died for us! Love that fills us!
Think on this: if Christ died for you “while we were still sinners,” then God loved you even in the very act of your sinning. He loved you in your rebellion, in your indifference, in your self-made ways. Perhaps you once ignored Him completely, or perhaps you actively rejected Him with anger and defiance. Yet even then, even when your heart was far from Him, when your life bore no evidence of seeking Him,
… He was loving you.
Consider this: when you were lost in yourself, unable to lift a single finger toward your own salvation, when you traded eternal treasures for the fleeting trinkets of this world, when you trampled underfoot the grace of heaven and drank deeply from the stagnant pools of this life, when you were utterly incapable of pulling yourself from the darkness of your own making,
… He was loving you.
His love for you is not recent, not reactionary, not dependent on anything you have done. It was set upon you before you took your first breath, before the foundations of the world were laid. He has loved you through every failure, every sorrow, every self-inflicted wound, and every injustice that has been done to you. His love does not shrink back at the sight of your sin, nor is it diminished by the weight of your pain. It is neither hindered nor withheld by anything you have ever done or failed to do.
How can we know this? How can we be sure?
Because God sent the most precious ambassador He had—His own Son. And while you and I were still rejecting Him, still blind to our need, still living as if He did not matter, Christ died for us. He laid down His life that we might know Him. He did it to place within us a new heart, a heart that responds to His love, a heart that will never be abandoned. By His Spirit, He breathes upon that heart, nurturing it, stirring it, kindling within it a fire that eternity itself will never quench. And now He pours—pours—His love into you, filling you, changing you, making you His own.
This is the love that transforms. The love that makes enemies into children, sinners into saints, the broken into the redeemed. This is the love that will never let you go.
“See what love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!” (1 John 3:1, BSB).
“For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 8:38-39, BSB).
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