He Loves You

I missed Five Minute Friday on Friday, so I'm a little late to the game.  So, the word prompt was Encouragement.  To get all the info on what this is all about, go visit Lisa Jo Baker's place and join us!

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1 Corinthians 13:4-8(a) "Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; itis not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.  Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.  Love never ends."

You are loved.  You are loved with an everlasting love, a love that never ends.  The love that is described in 1 Corinthians 13, your Heavenly Father loves you in that way.  When you feel unlovable, you are still loved.  

Jeremiah 31:3 "I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you."

God has a plan for you, even when you feel forgotten.  He has a plan for you.  He promises to use even the not so great stuff in your life for your good, and for His glory!  Romans 8:28.  He sees your yesterdays and knows your tomorrows.  He uses it all, loves through it all and works through it all.

The greatest love of all is that while we were still sinners, Christ died for our sins.  While we still did not love Him in return, He loved us anyway.  Friend, there is nothing, not one thing, that can separate you from His eternal love for you.  

You know what?  This is just as much for me as it is for you, friend.  I am an encourager, that is my nature, my spiritual gift.  But, sometimes the encourager needs to be encouraged.  So, I'm being encouraged by these words of life as I write them to the person reading them now.  Let's be encouraged together so we can be an encouragement together.

I pray that you are encouraged today to seek Him with your whole heart, to lean on Him through times of weakness, and to trust Him through times of darkness.  He loves you, yes, He does.

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