Recovery Christian Center Daily Meditation - 3/31/14 - The Depth of God's Love
"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. No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 8:38-39 NLT
One of the challenges for some recovering folk and even Christian folk is a belief that they are not worthy of God's love. We tend to look at our past and even some things that happen after we begin this new life and think that we have disqualified ourselves from God really loving us. This couldn't be further from the truth, but unfortunately because we haven't learned to love or forgive ourselves we have trouble seeing any level of love coming from God.
The truth is that He really does love us and there is nothing we could ever do or have done to us to change that. It doesn't matter what you did or where you came from. He still loves you and has always loved you not in spite of who you are but because of who you are. If you allow Him He will love you out of your condition, out of your circumstances and into His marvelous life. He will take you from feeling worthless, useless, hopeless and lost into a sense of value and purpose.
Nothing can separate you from His love. Now this isn't license to act crazy, but He loves us so much that He will forgive us for whatever we do if we simply believe in Him, ask for it and be willing to change. Like any good parent He wants us to do better, and only chastises us when we are off track not to punish but simply to correct. And no matter how much correction we need He won't stop loving us or seeing value in us nor will He give up on us. Simply put, God loves us more than we could ever imagine and there is nothing you can do about that.
