Accepting The truth God loves us

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Hi,

Thanks to anyone who reads and responds. A personal struggle for me has been fully accepting the truth that God loves me. I can understand it, but fully believing it is another matter. What has helped you to accept this truth fully?

Thanks again,

Dave
 
First comes faith. Once you believe that God Himself entered human history to be savior and redeemer and a perfect example to follow, then the love God must have for us humans becomes obvious.
 
I just figure that if Jesus was willing to die for me, than He loves me.
 
Prayer. Start praying in particular mental prayer, just begin a conversation with Jesus in quiet time alone. Do it regularly ie. every day. Try some meditation (but please please make sure its Christian meditation and not any if the eastern stuff that floating about the edges of the church these days). Maybe try Lectio divina just to be on the safe side… theres a priest hermit giving free lessons on meditation on Scripture and hes really good on St Matthews gospel on YouTube, once a week for 10mins. You could try him…his first video is the why… then Jesus will tell you and show you… and you’ll have no doubt of his love just as you don’t of your own family members.

 
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What has helped me to accept that God loves me?

That I’m still alive, did not suffer tragedy because of my former sinful ways, and have been led back to the paths of the Lord in time to reform my life.
Hallelujah!
 
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I’m not completely there either, but some of the things that have helped me are daily Mass and adoration, frequent confession, a devotion to my guardian angel, learning more about God as Father and what that means, and consecration to St. Joseph. Not all at once, though, at least not all the time. 🙂

But I think the thing that has helped most (at least on a conscious level) has been regular interaction with a good and holy priest. He’s not by any means a perfect man, but it’s been so interesting to see what holiness looks like in a living person who’s always growing in his relationship with God - and to see and even be on the receiving end of that kind of radical acceptance and love changes absolutely everything.

We need more good priests. What God does in and through a man who gives himself completely over to his maker is astounding. I think if we could see more of that in our daily lives, we’d all have a lot less trouble accepting the scandal of God’s love for us.
 
How we love ourselves and others; is a reflection of how we think God loves us.
 
WhiteOak said:
Hi,

Thanks to anyone who reads and responds. A personal struggle for me has been fully accepting the truth that God loves me. I can understand it, but fully believing it is another matter. What has helped you to accept this truth fully?

Thanks again,

Dave
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The only way to let that current flow through you is to open the gate on the other end, and give that love to others. That takes God’s love out of the realm of hypothetical and makes it incarnate in your life.
St John of the Cross said it something like this:
If you find yourself in a place where there is no love, put love in, and you will draw love out.

It’s a struggle for sure.
 
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Meditating on the Omnipresence of God has really moved me into a place of much greater confidence in the love of God for me personally. I mean, think about this. He is fully present everywhere all at once. That means you always have his absolute full attention. He never gets distracted from you, he never takes his eye off you. As another poster said, he also died for you, and he sent his spirit to live within you. I’m convinced he does this, not because he has to, because he wants to. No one like you has ever lived before, and no one like you will ever live on this earth again. He’s so thrilled you’re here! He wants to share every minute with you. He’s endlessly fascinated by you. If a person treated you the way he does, you’d have to say that you were his absolute favorite. And so you are. And so you are! And I am too. That’s the beautiful truth of this faith.
 
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Yes to fully comprehend God’s love for his creatures is beyond human thinking and so we try to approximate it.

You asked: “I’m not sure what you mean by needing it?”

Grace is necessary for salvation and is supernatural, however each person’s life is unique and so has different temptations against which grace is used. I am not referring to good health, since you asked about that also.

Life is still a gift, because through our free will we can find eternal life in glory, regardless of unequal burden of pain and misery. In glory of heaven there is not equality, for some have greater glory due to greater merit.

When discussing that which is not desired by people it is usually termed evil and falls into three categories shown below:
  • metaphysical evil (so called) - “the limitation by one another of various component parts of the natural world”
  • moral evil - “the deviation of human volition from the prescriptions of the moral order and the action which results from that deviation”
  • physical evil - “all that causes harm to man, whether by bodily injury, by thwarting his natural desires, or by preventing the full development of his powers, either in the order of nature directly, or through the various social conditions under which mankind naturally exists.”
“Christian philosophy has, like the Hebrew, uniformly attributed moral and physical evil to the action of created free will.”

Reference: Sharpe, A. (1909). Evil. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05649a.htm
 
Thank you for this. This has struck a chord with me and sparked a desire to reflect on this truth. Thank you for your help.
 
Could Jesus love each and everyone of us as he loves himself?

If Jesus died for me and for you, he must love us all as he loves himself.
 
I have had difficulties with this myself.
What really helped me was meditation on the gospels, esp matthew 20:34 " Jesus had compassion on them and touched their eyes. Immediately they received their sight and followed him"
Jesus had compassion for us, and healed us. Try to meditate on such passages, ask the holy spirit to enlighten you before, that really helped my medidations.
 
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