GOD LOVES US

 

GOD LOVES US

Isaiah 43:22-24

As I read today’s text, there are some interesting and profound truths we need to look at and think over. We normally take a positive spin on truth, but it also holds true that there is great news in the negative. Let’s take a look.

God loves those who do not pray. 22 Isaiah was speaking to a people who did not ask the Lord for help. They preferred to act on their own. They had grown tired of needing the Lord. They did their own thing with no regard for God. In spite of man’s rejection of Him, God loves us. He always has and always will. He loves us without regard to our sins, our seeking after other gods, our efforts to ignore Him or our efforts to squelch His presence in our lives. It is hard for us to grasp how God could love the unlovable, those who are wicked to the core, but He does. John 3:16

God loves those who are ungrateful. 23 They take for granted life’s blessings. They feel entitled to them. They don’t acknowledge that God is the source of all that is good.

God loves those who do not honor Him. 24 They do not give a thought to honoring the Lord for His goodness to them. They puff themselves up and take credit for what they accomplish in life. They take but don’t give. And when they don’t get what they think they deserve, they shake their fists at God and complain.

God loves those who do not live what they profess. 24 The Israelites were faithful to offer sacrifices to the Lord but were unfaithful to Him in how they lived. They relied on what they did to find favor with God. They failed to accept the fact that God wanted their heart allegiance to Him, not their ritual sacrifices. He wanted their humble and broken hearts, not their animals. He wanted obedience from the heart, not from duty.

You need to know that God loves you. You may not love Him, but He loves you. You may have never done anything to warrant God loving you, but He loves you still. You may give Him every reason in the books to not love you, but He does. But God loves you too much to force His love on you. He won’t stop loving you, but He will let you go on without Him. He wants you love so much that He died for your sins.

If you do love the Lord, you will show it by how you live and talk.