Can God really Love me?

If you know anything about God from a “Religious” perspective, this would be a fair question. He is Holy, Righteous, and despises sin. I on the other hand am unholy, self righteous and addicted to sin! So how or why would God love me? The answer is GRACE! Every great attribute there is…God is! Whereas, you and I may possess this attribute in our character, God is. For example, I may have developed the ability to show genuine love, God IS love! Grace is also an attribute of God, and He loves to extend His grace to all. God loves us and shows us grace because He’s God!  

We saw from Paul that:

         1. His Grace gives us Self-Acceptance.

         2. His Grace Translates to us.

3. His Grace gives us Self-forgiveness. God’s Grace brings balance into our life, we realize we are sinners, yet God continues to love and care for us.

1 Timothy 1:12–14 I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has strengthened me, because He considered me faithful, putting me into service, even though I was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent aggressor. Yet I was shown mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief; and the grace of our Lord was more than abundant, with the faith and love which are found in Christ Jesus.

Nothing I am is a surprise to God!

4. His Grace is Eternal in its effect. When God gives, He gives His way! It’s unconditional and it is forever!

2 Thessalonians 2:16–17 Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by his grace gave us eternal comfort and a wonderful hope, comfort you and strengthen you in every good thing you do and say.

I can never remove myself from His grace. 

5. Eternal in it's concept. His grace does not begin when our body dies. It is retroactive…wiping all the sins of our past…pointing to an endless future experiencing Him.   

Ephesians 2:6-7 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.

No matter what situation I am in, His grace is ever before me.

The So What? Have you invited His Grace into your life? Looking for Hope? His Grace will bring that.