Can you prove that God loves me?

[Lost_Sheep]

Recently, I was faced with a very dire and desperate situation. I had been praying every day in earnest since last July for a positive outcome. I prayed to the Lord, the Blessed Mother, and a whole laundry list of saints. A month ago, everything came to a head and the outcome was not what I wanted.

I was completely devastated, both emotionally and spiritually. What hurt the most is that I feel I was betrayed by God. I put my heart and soul into my praying and had a number of friends praying for me and with me. I truly believed deep in my heart that I would be heard this time. But, again, like so many times before, I was ignored.

So, in one last-ditch effort to change my mind, prove to me that God does not hate me. Tell me something I have not heard before and I will not be able to discredit. I need to be irrefutably convinced.

 

[Michelle_Arnold]

I can’t prove to you that God loves you. I can’t even prove to you that he loves me. That is one reason why St. Paul said:

In this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience (Rom. 8:24–25).

In the very next verses, St. Paul goes on to say about God the Holy Spirit, the third Person of the Trinity:

Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with sighs too deep for words. And he who searches the hearts of men knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. We know that in everything God works for good with those who love him, who are called according to his purpose (Rom. 8:26–28).

I can also offer one more thing. I found your question deep in the bowels of our question queue here on CAF. Something drew me toward it, even though it was an older question. Your original question was much longer than it appears here, and we usually do not have the time to read long questions. In this case, something drew me to read every word you wrote.

I can’t prove to you who that was, or why that was. I can only say that I was drawn to your question, that it broke my heart to read of the suffering you’ve experienced, and that I’ll pray for your intentions. And, as Catholics, we believe that even the desire to pray, for ourselves or for someone else, is only because God first gave us that desire. God bless.