JESUS LOVES Even Me

Dearest Saints, Hearing about love for many seems to be an unending and repetitive sermon. But the truth is that if the Church (Gods people) would embrace this Truth of His awesome love for you, we wouldn't have the problems within the Church like we currently have. Because of the time of Year we celebrate Christmas, receiving His love He offers to all of us through Christ Jesus is the real message of Christmas. It's sad that many of those outside the Church show Gods love often times more than those within the Church. Yes, it would be nice for people to love us, even to like us, but no matter what you do, many won't love you or like you. The Bible says that even though you may do good, many people will hate you because they hated Jesus first (John 15:19) and read Matt 10:22. Everyone should have loved Jesus back in the Biblical days, throughout history and should today love Him because of what He redeemed us from and the glorious free gift of eternal life He offers to all of us. This is by far a greater gift than any worldly gift, and yet it is free! But many today reject Him and even go so far to despise Him, mock Him, crucify Him and outright deny Him, even though He could not have done any more to show that exceeding love for us. Many would wonder why do many despise Him? I believe the biggest reasons are because people want to be their own "master of destiny" or they hate being convicted of sin and their actions that they think are good, God considers them evil which offends many (read John 7:7). People think they are "good enough", but we can never attain the right to eternal life by our "good works". Otherwise, there would be no need to Jesus to come in the flesh. Take a look at Cain, how He thought He could be justified by "good works" but God rejected his offer. Then, Cain did the unthinkable (Gen 4:8). Abel was the one who had the acceptable offer because it was sacrificial. It's a message for us to sacrifice our own ways and abilities and accept His offer of love to us instead. When you think of the Parents who love their Child. If the Parents have unconditional love for their child, but the child doesn't believe it or receive the unconditional love from his/her parents, whose fault is it? It's the child not learning to believe and receive this. Often times, we are at fault for not believing and receiving our Heavenly Fathers fullness of love for us. It's never a matter of Him not loving us, it's a matter of us not receiving the fullness of His love for us. Jesus had a special love for John, one of His Disciples. John always knew that God loved Him very much and that annoyed the others. We need to encourage each other to receive the fullness of Gods love for us. Like John, its not a matter of ever comparing ourselves to one another or say that God loves me more than the others because that is not true. Its a matter of the measure of Gods love we receive for ourselves. We can't get into the bad habit of comparing His love for us to others when we see how He blesses others, because He is often doing a greater work in us who think God doesn't bless us or love us. The truth is: God loves us fully and unconditionally, equally. The problem is that the majority fail to believe and receive this for themselves and lower Gods level of love for them like the rest of the world and fail to believe who He really is. Forget about what you have done in the past! Like the previous message I indicated, God sees what He wants to do for us and through us, He doesn't want to see us as we were, but what we can become through Him. So don't let the past dictate Gods love for you. We cannot afford to compare Gods LOVE to mankinds way of love. Gods love is far higher and far greater then any man could ever attain. If it would be helpful, smile at yourself in the mirror and say "God Loves Me". This will measure how much you believe the truth of His love for you. If you need to, keep doing this over and over again until it gets into you heart and this becomes natural to say this truth to yourself. Let's be like the Disciple John and be able to say like he did, that "GOD LOVES ME", despite who I am or what I have done. That's why He tells us to come to Him, just as we are (read Matt 11:28). Please email the undersigned should you wish to unsubscribe. God bless. In the Matchless Name of Jesus Richard Ministry Encourager Answers2Prayer http://sites.google.com/site/greatestbuilderforourlife http://www.answers2prayer.org/