God Loves

For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.  (NIV)

"For God so loved".  God is and God loves. 

1 John 4:8 says, "Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love."  There is an incredible amount of depth to love and I can never possibly conceive to know the ends of it.  To know the end of it would be to understand the depth of God and that is impossible for us to comprehend.  We should make a daily work in looking for new depths and reaches of love.

Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable His judgments, and His paths beyond tracing out! - Romans 11:33

We must be able to love if we want to know God and we can never discover the depths of God.  Every new shovel full contains more diamonds and gold than we can imagine.

Those verses read, let me ask you a very serious question.

Why did God make you?

I know you have thought that question before.  Probably when you were a teenager and then again when you were 40.  But, why did God make you? 

God made you so He could love you!  The answer is really that simple.  You are made to be loved and once you are loved, to love. 

God went beyond just making us to be loved by Him, He made us to be able to receive His love.  And He went even further, He made us able to show love.

Once we allow ourselves to be loved, we are able to love.  If God loves you and you allow yourself to accept it, how can you not love God?  Then, how can you not love others, those who God also created to love?  It becomes impossible not to do so.  Anytime we find ourselves annoyed with others, when just being around or near someone grates on our being, we can be absolutely sure that we have a love problem.  We have the problem, not the other persons.

God not only loved us enough to send Himself here through the saving actions on the Cross, but He created us out of His love.  Our very origins began in His love.