20 verses from the Bible to tell you how much you are loved by God
I came to Christ in my early twenties, broken and confused, not knowing who I was in Christ. Although I was aware that God loved me, I did not understand the depth and breadth of his love.
I remember the day when I finally felt God's love for me. I was sitting in my bedroom praying, when His love hit me. From that day on, I stood up and basked in the love of God.
The Bible is full of scriptures that teach us the love of God. We are truly his beloved, and he enjoys pouring out his love on us.
1. You are the apple of the eye of God.
“Hold me like the apple of the eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings. "- Psalm 17: 8
Did you know that you are the apple of the eye of God? In Christ, you don't have to feel insignificant or invisible. This scripture is changing life as it can help us understand and accept that God loves us and loves us.
2. You are done frightfully and wonderfully.
“I will thank you, because I am frighteningly and wonderfully done; your works are wonderful and my soul knows this very well. "- Psalm 139: 14
God does not create garbage. Every person who created has a purpose, a value, a value. You weren't a random rethinking that God has put together. On the contrary, he took his time with you. From the consistency of your hair to your height, skin color and everything else, you have been frighteningly and wonderfully made.
3. You were in God's plan before you were born.
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you and before you were born I consecrated you; I have named you prophet for the nations. " - Jeremiah 1: 5
Never believe the enemy's lie that you are nobody. In fact, you are someone in God. God had a plan and purpose for your life before you were in your mother's womb. He called you and anointed you for good works.
4. God has plans for your good.
"Because I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for well-being and not for calamity to give you a future and hope." - Jeremiah 29: 1
God has a plan for your life. That plan does not include calamity, but peace, the future and hope. God wants the best for you and knows that the best is salvation through his Son, Jesus Christ. Those who accept Jesus as their Savior are guaranteed a future and hope.
5. God wants to spend forever with you.
"For God loved the world so much, that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish, but have eternal life." - John 3:16
Did you know that God wants to spend eternity with you? Eternity. This is a long time! We just have to believe in His Son. In this way we ensure that we spend eternity with the Father.
6. You are loved by expensive love.
"The greatest love has none of this, what life offers for its friends." - John 15:13
Imagine someone who loves you so much that he gave his life for you. This is true love.
7. You can never be separated from the greatest love.
“Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Tribulation, anguish, persecution, famine, nakedness, danger or sword ... Neither height, nor depth, nor any other creature, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. "- (Romans 8:35, 39)
You don't have to work to get God's love. He loves you because he is what he is. God is love .
8. God's love for you is inevitable.
"... love never fails ..." - 1 Corinthians 13: 8
Men and women fall in love with each other continuously. Carnal love is not proof of failure. However, God's love for us never fails.
9. You will always be guided by the love of Christ.
"But thank God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and manifests through us the sweet aroma of the knowledge of him everywhere." - 2 Corinthians 2:14
God always promises to lead those he loves to victory in Christ.
10. God trusts to treasure his Spirit.
"But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the greater greatness of power will be of God and not of ourselves." - 2 Corinthians 4: 7
Although our ships are fragile, God has entrusted us with a treasure. He did it because he loves us. Yes, the Creator of the universe entrusts us with his valuables. It is amazing.
11. You are loved by a reconciling love.
“Therefore, we are ambassadors of Christ, as if God were making an appeal through us; we pray to you in the name of Christ, reconciling you with God. " - 2 Corinthians 5:20
Ambassadors have an important job. We too have an essential task; we are ambassadors of Christ. He entrusts us with the work of reconciliation because he loves us.
12. You are adopted into the family of God.
"He predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the kind intention of his will." - Ephesians 1: 5
Did you know you were adopted? We are all! And because we are adopted into the family of God, we are His children. We have a Father who loves us unconditionally, provides and protects us.
13. You are sanctified by the love of Jesus.
"Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her, so that he could sanctify it, purifying it by washing the water with the word". - Ephesians 5: 25-26
These scriptures use a husband's love for his wife to show us how much Christ loves us. He gave himself for us to sanctify and purify us.
14. You have a family through Christ.
“Stretching out his hand to the disciples, he said: 'Here is my mother and my brothers! For anyone who does the will of My Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, my sister and my mother ”. - Matthew 12: 49-50
I know that Jesus loved his brothers, but he also loves us. He said that those who do God's will are his brothers. Although we have natural brothers, through Jesus, we also have spiritual brothers. It makes us all a family.
15. Christ believes that it is worth dying.
“We know the love for this, which gave our life for us; and we should give our lives for the brothers ". - 1 John 3:16
Jesus loves us so much, he gave his life for us.
16. You have been loved from the beginning.
"In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins". - 1 John 4:10
God loved us from the beginning, which is why he sent Jesus to atone for our sins. In other words, the love of God covers our sins.
17. God runs towards you with love.
"We love, because he loved us for the first time." - 1 John 4:19
God did not wait for us to love him before returning his love to us. He gave the example of Matthew 5:44, 46.
18. You are going to be refined.
“For you know that you have not been redeemed with corruptible things, such as silver and gold, from your vain conversations received by tradition from your fathers; but with the precious blood of Christ, like a spotless and spotless lamb. "- 1 Peter 1: 18-19
God redeemed you from the hand of the enemy from the precious blood of Christ. You have been washed clean with that blood.
19. You are chosen.
"But you are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for the possession of God, so that you can proclaim the excellences of the One who called you from darkness to his marvelous light." - 1 Peter 2: 9
The Bible declares that you have been chosen. You are not common or ordinary. You are regal and holy. You are included in what God calls his "possession".
20. God watches over you.
"For the eyes of the Lord are turned to the righteous and his ears hear their prayer, but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil." - 1 Peter 3:12
God is watching over your every move. He listens to you proactively to help you. Because? Because you are special for him and he loves you.
One of my sisters in Christ states that the Bible contains 66 love letters from God for us. And you are right. Restricting those 66 love letters to 20 scriptures is difficult. These scriptures are not the only verses that teach us how much we are loved. They are simply a starting point.
I encourage you to let Abraham, Sarah, Joseph, David, Hagar, Esther, Ruth, Mary (Jesus mother), Lazarus, Mary, Martha, Noah and all the other witnesses tell you how much you are loved. You will spend your whole life reading and reading their stories.