God’s Love

Louise Duval

MA, LPC, LAC, CAC

2/10/2025

Valentine’s Day is coming up, so you are probably hearing a lot about love, and maybe this year, you need to know that God loves you more than any person ever can! Many people misunderstand the love of God. A former atheist said that to her, it always seemed like there was a house with the lights on where there was a party, and God was in there with all His people, but she could not get in. She later became a Christian when she understood that was not how it was. God left all His children in the house where they would be safe, but He left the house to find her. God pursues our hearts.  The perfect, holy God wants a relationship with us and will go to great lengths to get us.

In the Bible, you can read how God knit you together in your mother’s womb, and He knew all of the days of your life before one of them came to be (Psalm 139:13-16). God knew and loved you before you were born and wants to have a relationship with you. God uses good and bad things in our life to bring us to Him. You may see His creativity and love in nature; you may see His joy in the laughter of a child; you may see how He gives you the strength to get through a terrible time; you may see how He brings good out of evil, you may see how He has directed your life, He may have placed people in your life who show His love to you through the way they treat you and the things they say. If you think about it, God has been pursuing you in countless ways throughout your life.

One of the most amazing things about God’s love is that He gives it to us despite what we do. We can’t do anything to earn it, and we can’t do anything to lose it. Before we were born, He knew we would choose to sin and rebel against Him, but He made us anyway, and He loves us so much that He made a way for us to have a relationship with Him and to be able to live with Him forever in Heaven. We could not get to God because of our sins, so He came to us: “A great God is one who did for His children what they cannot do for themselves.” (Max Lucado). Through the death of God’s Son, Jesus, we can become God’s children. “See what great 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). He paid the price for our sin because we could not.  That is impressive love; all we have to do is accept it.

With our finite human minds, I think it is impossible to understand the extent of God’s love for us entirely, but maybe you can get a glimpse of it. Once you realize that the creator of the universe loves you, you never have to feel unloved again, and you will be able to love and experience the love of those around you more fully.

Happy Valentine’s Day!