wisegirlandseaweedbrainforever:
Sometimes Christians make you feel like God is just obligated to love you and He only tolerates you, and while God does absolutely hate sin, He doesn’t love you because He has to. He designed you. He likes you. He wanted you. He doesn’t just loves you in a “God loves the whole world so He has to love me too” sense. It’s personal to Him.
He only loves those who love Him. Would you love someone who continues to hate you
God does.
Romans 5:8
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
God’s love is not dependent on us in any way. God is love.
We all need to stop over thinking God’s love, He loves us wholly, personally, and despite our faults. He doesn’t need a reason for this, do we always have a reason for loving what we love? He is who He says He is, we are who we are. He loves us anyways. Except it, love it, love Him. He is deserving of love, except that. Why are we so insistent on denying that love?