I love You. “Jesus loves me this I know, for the Bible tells me so. Little ones to Him belong. They are weak but He is strong. Yes, Jesus loves me.”
I used to sing this song to my children when they were small, and I’ve sung it to my grandchildren also. The simplest of all truths — Jesus loves me. And yet perhaps the most difficult to make real in our lives.
Does God really love me? How many of us have asked that question. Oh, maybe we haven’t expressed it out loud, but we’ve wondered. When difficult times arise, when unexpected tragedies happen, when bad things happen to good people that little nagging doubt arises … does God REALLY love me?
Romans 5:8: “But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” [NIV]
While we were living as enemies of God, God demonstrated His love for us by giving us His Son. In that giving God changed us from enemies to family. In the death of His son, He gave us life.
Does God REALLY love me? Yes, God REALLY loves you. We find evidence of that love on a hill called Calvary. God’s love flows from a blood-stained cross into our life each day. God’s love rises from an empty tomb and promises eternity in His presence — God REALLY loves you and me!
