How I Know God Loves Me

How I Know God Loves Me Everything is wrong in my life. How can I believe that there is a God who loves me? Every morning we wake up and yesterday has worked out itself. The result or progress made may be to our liking or loathing. If yesterday had gone the way we planned, we would probably be seeing a greedy and self-serving result. The answers to our desires and prayers are not by any sole doings of our own. There is no way that we can soften a hardened heart, make charitable the selfish, or sway the unconquerable. We could not possibly put all the players in their proper place, the perfect words in their mouths, nor make stronger or weaker the attitudes that would make our circumstances workout in agreement. It is by the grace of God that all things work out as they do. We can look back over our trials and agree that in the end the result was best for us. Often the outcome was not anything we would have dreamed up for ourselves. How few times in our lives are we brought to our knees over the great and miraculous mercies of God that we’ve witnessed? Can you recall a time that your world seemed to have crumbled, feeling as though you’ve lost control of your finances, relationships, or home? Have you ever felt so powerless, defenseless and incapable that you fell to your knees, not in prayer, but striking with anger to the God that loves you? “If you loved me Lord, why would you make these things happen?” When the storm has passed and the sea of our lives is calm again, it is then that we often pray confidently in thankfulness to the God that loves us. Could our thankfulness be deeper than a superficial prayer? Could we reach more profoundly into our souls so that we may with awe and trepidation acknowledge the greatness of our God? Could we be so bold and humbled to speak to God as Job did, ““I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know. I have heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eyes see you; therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes.” We need only feel this way once to learn that God is in charge. We are children of God. And being His children we should not allow ourselves to come between us and the love God offers. “O How I Know God Loves Me.”