God Doesn't Love Me

'And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. '

Romans 8:38

I'm challenged to try to fathom the power of Romans 8:38 this morning. No matter what I've done, will do, or am doing, whether right or wrong, God's love for me remains unchanged. Whether I willfully sin and walk away from God, His love remains unchanged. If I spend my whole life in church or a brothel, the pulpit or a pit, God's love for me remains unchanged. On my death bed or in the grave, God's love for me never changes.

Many times we may feel God's love has an expiration date or falters when we breach some set of unspoken terms. We may think we could possibly sin too much or our sin be so atrocious that God just gives up. Let me say there is no amount of sinning or sin so repugnant that God will withdraw His love from us.

As a parent I can in part understand, but in all honesty it's only a small understanding. I do love my kids, but I'd be lying if I said I always felt love towards them at every waking moment. Those moments of anger or disappointment, sometimes overshadow the love. Even in marriage, you don't always "feel" the love. You consciously have to work at it. God never has to work at it with us. He can't turn it off or on. His love is always existing and existing at the same level as it was last year, decade, or 2 seconds ago. His love for us is so strong it can not be separated, minimized, or overshadowed by some other emotion. That is mind blowing! In the same moment God expresses judgment, anger, or vengeance, He equally expresses and emotes love. No sacrifice of one to express another.

So in light of Romans 8:38, it is actually impossible for the statement "God doesn't love me." to be true. We may feel we don't deserve His love, that His lack of momentary "presence" is proof, or we simply believed the lie the enemy's whispering. Whatever the rationale, it's faulty. God loves (place your name here) today as much as He did yesterday and the same as tomorrow. There's nothing I can do to change this fact. At every moment of my life there was always Someone who was deeply and madly in love with me. That person was and is God! Romans 8:38 shows me I am always loved.