Oh How He Loves Us!

It’s funny how we have such strict plans for some things then out of nowhere God points us in a completely different direction. For a couple days now I have been working on another note called “When will more be enough” and I am talking about contentment and finding peace with what we have, and I am still super excited about finishing it up but for the past couple of days I believe God has been really trying to get through to me about how serious He is about His love and How much He truly loves me. For the past couple of years my passion and love for helping people and talking with people has grown and has become a roaring fire for God’s ministry, in these years I have told so many different people how much God loves them and How is grace is enough and that there is absolutely nothing that can separate us from God and His love and His grace. But in these past couple years, something really depressing happened to my heart. I got so extremely into sharing with others Gods love for them; I started slowly forgetting that…God loves me too. This past week I had one of the most amazing and encouraging talks with a real close friend and it really sparked something within my heart. We talked about how they have gone through a lot of trails and a lot of different types of problems and through their problems they started thinking about how could God still love me? And hearing those words makes my heart sad, it makes my knees shake, it makes my soul cry out. It does this, because I have experienced Gods love in so many different ways and I know that I have been through so much in my life and I have too asked the question “How could God still love me?” and I am just reminded through Gods word that “Not life or death can separate us from the Love of God” and I told my friend to listen to a song called “How He Loves” by David Crowder that I really like but it never really struck a chord with me until today. I knew I could suggest it because I have heard it help and change so many people’s lives, and in that I had confidence in God that this could help change their life as well. After they had listened to it, they poured out all they had within themselves to me and said how much they needed to hear that song. And from that moment, it really hit me. I have been spending so long telling other people how much God loves them, that I completely forgot…that God loves me too. And at first I was really discouraged by myself for forgetting such an amazing thing, how I could be doing this ministry and completely forget that I am a part of it as well. But then an overwhelming feeling came over my whole being. And God pointed me to truly listen to “How He Loves” and here are the lyrics:

He is jealous for me,
Loves like a hurricane; I am a tree,
Bending beneath the weight of his wind and mercy.
When all of a sudden,
I am unaware of these afflictions eclipsed by glory,
And I realize just how beautiful You are,
And how great Your affections are for me.

And oh, how He loves us so,
Oh how He loves us,
How He loves us all

Yeah, He loves us,
Oh! how He loves us,
Oh! how He loves us,
Oh! how He loves.


We are His portion and He is our prize,
Drawn to redemption by the grace in His eyes,
If grace is an ocean, we’re all sinking.
And Heaven meets earth like an unforeseen kiss,
And my heart turns violently inside of my chest,
I don’t have time to maintain these regrets,
When I think about, the way

He loves us,
Oh! how He loves us,
Oh! how He loves us,
Oh! how He loves.

It was made known to me tonight that I needed to hear this song, just as badly as my friend did. I think I got so caught up with my own sins and getting myself into having the mindset that there is no help for me when it comes to God’s love so maybe I can share it with others to fill this void in my life. But Gods love has and always will be exactly what I need. After listening to this song and being in complete awe of God’s love I couldn’t help but read John 3:16. And I know it sounds cliché and repetitive to mention this verse when it comes to God’s love but this will always be one of the best verses for displaying God’s love. “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”. Love is such an overused word that has unfortunately has lost close to all meaning. It is almost impossible to live in this world without hearing how someone loves this new song or loves pizza or whatever. I don’t think love was supposed to be thrown around so….carelessly as it is today. In John 3:16, Jesus talks about God’s genuine love for His people. This type of love is profound, life changing, eternal, and unending. Jesus doesn’t refer to God’s love as something common but as a love so strong where He was willing to send His Son, to die for us so that we could have eternal life! I am not a father yet, but I have a soon to be 4 year old nephew who is the closest thing I have to a son, and there isn’t anything I wouldn’t do for him. And this type of love is the closest thing we have to comprehend God’s love for us. My love for Nathan is nothing more than genuine and real, he hasn’t done anything to earn my love. I just love him, no questions asked. I know when he grows up he is going to make decisions that I am not 100% proud of, but in no way could he do anything to make me love him less. And God’s love is exactly like that but with everyone, and not only just for everyone but to the point of death. I have been blessed with a lot of amazing friends and family who I wouldn’t think twice about dying for, but could I say I would die for someone I don’t even know? Probably not, and that’s what makes God’s love so truly amazing. One thing that I have come to learn about John 3:16 is that so many people read that and leave it but verse 17 just totally brings it home. “For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved”. This verse completely does it for me when it comes to God’s love. It truly portrays how selfless God’s love is, that He sends His son not to condemn us, but to save us. For the rest of my life, I will sing praise to God and give all the glory to Him because His first and only intention with me is to love me and to save me; nothing else, not to condemn me or persecute me, but to save me from my sin; my deep, dark, ugly sin. And going back to the song, the very first line is one of the most profound things I have ever heard in my entire life. The words “He is jealous for me”, at first I didn’t really understand that statement but in the bible it states that we have a jealous God. When we hear jealousy, we automatically think of it as a negative term but when it comes to God it is a complete genuine jealously. He isn’t jealous of me, He is jealous for me, that He doesn’t want some of my love or some of my life; absolutely everything. All of my love, all of my heart, all of my mind, all of my strength, all of my life! God’s love changes people. His love is a love that has turned my life around. God offers us to embrace His grace for our sins, because we have all fallen short, we all deserve nothing but death. But God’s grace and God’s love has saved us from death. I believe that all He truly wants is for us to love Him the way He loves us. 100% committed, genuine, sincere love. And even in the worst of times when we think we have walked beyond God’s grace. In my life I know I have done way too many things that I know I shouldn’t have done and some day’s I sit and I wonder why I did it and I beat myself up over it but in this song, it reminds me to refocus on God’s true love for me and that His grace reaches me wherever I am. I don’t have time to maintain these regrets, when I think about, the way He loves…Me. I could literally sit and talk about God’s love for days and days but praise God I can continue sharing my thoughts thru this small ministry God has me a part of right now.

Praise God! Thank you God for loving me, us, your children, the way you do!