Does God really love everyone?

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I know it is wrong to even question this. I was taught to believe that God loves us all. However, I am struggling, and have been for a very long time now. I feel like God does not love me. Is it possible that I have done something that would keep God from loving me? I just feel like he has been ignoring me for so long, and do not know what to do. If God does not love me, what is the point in my existence?
 
God does love you, don’t be fooled by your feelings or anything else, He loves everyone, all His creatures, otherwise why would He have come down and become man and suffer and die for you? He died for all sinners yes, but even if you were the only sinner on earth, or even if you were the only one who would be saved, He would still have suffered and died just for you,
and Jesus has saved even the most horrible sinners, murderers, rapists, adulterers, etc. He loved them with an unreserved, unmeasurable love, and what have you done that is worse than them?

Jesus hates the sin, but loves the sinner, so don’t concern yourself with fears of “does He hate me??” but instead concern yourself with overcoming your sins which offend such a loving and sweet God…

but why do you feel like God has been ignoring you? if you explain more about why you feel this way, then perhaps i can help more.
but if it’s simply about feeling distant from God, sometimes God will withdraw His consolations from us, not to hurt us, but to push us to come after Him, to seek Him for His own sake, and not for the feelings we get from Him.

if you can be more specific though then maybe i can give some better answers, don’t be afraid to ask anything at all, it’s not wrong to question anything as long as you’re truly questioning it to get answers, that’s how you learn, you need to ask.
 
God loves everyone, and there is nothing you can do to separate yourself from his love. What you are describing sounds a lot like the “Dark Night of The Soul,” which is something even Saints have had to deal with. Hang in there, and things will get better. I’ll be praying for you. :hug3:
 
EmraldWings - thank you for your kind words
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God loves everyone, and there is nothing you can do to separate yourself from his love. What you are describing sounds a lot like the “Dark Night of The Soul,” which is something even Saints have had to deal with. Hang in there, and things will get better. I’ll be praying for you. :hug3:
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Yes, I have been told I must be experiencing a Dark Night of the Soul. However, I have tried to push through it for so long now. I just do not know how much longer I can hold out. I already feel like I have truly gone father than I can handle!

For God to ignore me like this, surely I must be unworthy (for some reason) of his love. I have prayed, and asked forgiveness for everything I can think of, even for “those things which I might not know/realize!” I need God so very much…
 
It may be some “dark night” but it could also be spiritual desolation which St.Ignatius tells us that we should reject. Remember the times when God has pulled through for you and dont put yourself down too low. God will give you consolation soon and when he does maybe write down your feelings because when you get back to desolation you will be able to remember how things were in consolation. I take this from EWTN’s series on spiritual discernment by a priest, I forget his name but the show is about Ignation spirituality and is very good. Dont take me too seriously, I am in the process of becoming a Secular Franciscan but Ignation spirituality has helped me in the conversion process.
 
MiracleNeeded, I sent you warm and Loving greetings. 25 Jan 2012
In Jesus Christ … I Love you! Now if that’s little poor old me, I assure you on my Salvation that God Loves you.
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Don’t berate yourself  because you have trouble believing.  Ask -- and I ask with you -- the Holy Spirit to help you with special faith and trust grace.

There is in the Old Testament in the prophet Isaiah some of the most beautiful Love words God has ever spoken to us.  Here they are .. a little polished >  God says to you personally, MiracleNeeded, and to me and to ALL of us > “Fear not .. for I am with you.  I have called you by name [MiracleNeeded].  You are Mine .. and I Love you.  When you walk through deep waters, I, the Lord God, will clasp your right hand .. and I will walk with you.  The waters shall not overwhelm you.  When you walk through fire, I, the Lord God, will clasp your right hand .. and I will walk with you.  The flames shall not destroy you.  I am the Lord your God, the Holy One, your Savior.  You are precious in my eyes .. AND I LOVE YOU!  Fear not .. for I am with you.”  Based on words in beginning of Chapter 43, Isaiah.

Read over these words, God’s words, slowly, letting them sink into you as Jesus leans you on his breast .. as he did St John at the Last Supper.

I share with you from within my own suffering experiences.  Someone I Loved more than anyone in the world and to whom I gave ALL.  I mean all.  This someone suddenly and without warning rejected me and abandoned me.  That was in Feb 2008.  Every day and week and month -- now approaching completion of the fourth year -- has been an emotional hell.  I can never say the words, “I DON’T CARE!”  Those words have always been bad words to me, wrong words.  I DO care .. and with all my heart and soul .. and will until I leave here and find perfect fulfillment of JOY in Heaven.

But God has given me a special grace .. for which I thank Him on my knees every day.  He has given me the grace to have complete faith and trust in His Infinite Love.  I don’t mean the faith and trust that things will go the way I want.  No.  I mean the faith and trust that things will go the way GOD wants them to.  And that HURTS! .. and hurts BAD!

God’s greatest proof and demonstration of His never changing Love for ALL of us is the Incarnation, God actually becoming one of us, God living a lonely and discouraging life, working Himself out with little to show for it, and then being abandoned and rejected by the very special people, the Jews, who were meant to be God’s Light to the rest of the world .. and then suffering terrible things and dying -- GOD in His human nature, Dying.  God Dying for us, for you, MiracleNeeded.

We suffer for several reasons.  As a consequence of our own sins, as a consequence of the sins of other people .. we suffer because we must grow up, mature, become strong sons and daughters of God .. and sometimes God permits us to suffer to bring blessing somehow on other people.

Remember when Jesus, scared to death! begged his Father, “Please, Father, I’m terrified!  Please let me out of this!  Please let this chalice pass from me!”  And recall the Father’s response [not in these exact words but, yes, with this exact meaning] > “My dear Son, I Love you without any limit .. but My answer is no.  You and I have very great work to do in the Love we have for everyone.  Go forward.”

This paragraph I must add.  Jesus Christ, in His human nature, rose from the dead into the Fulness of Infinite Love and Joy and Ecstasy .. never to end.  I must mention his Resurrection because if it were for that all the rest would have been pure waste.

There is so much more to be said.  Perhaps if you share a little more with me, I can do so.

Please, do not be discouraged.  Jesus Christ is walking with you and he is Loving you.  God says in Jeremiah the prophet, “I know well the plans I have for you.  And they are plans for your good .. and not for woe.”

MiracleNeeded, I join with you in begging the Holy Spirit .. in Jesus’ Name .. for a great increase in you of God’s LOVE .. and your faith and hope and trust in that Love.

I care.   John   (JohnJFarren)
 
Read the book called The Dark Night of the Soul by St. John of the Cross on this page:

freecatholicebooks.com/page6.html

Don’t worry. God loves you. Ask for Him to show it if you doubt it.

Another thing you can do, is every night, thank God for some blessing He had bestowed on you. Write a list. Maybe add 1-3 new things every night that God did for you that day or in you life.
 
Hi Miracleneeded,

Would it be a consolation if I told you that all the Saints experienced exactly what you are experiencing?

It is very difficult and painful, but hang in there you have many freinds in heaven and on earth who went through the same trials that are praying for you. At times, we do think that the good Lord has abandoned us, especially when nothing goes right. I can assure you from my own experience that if you found your intentions and aspirations on God, you will get them and in a way far greater than you could ever imagine. See, this is our Faith, God loves you more than anything, your salvation concerns him more than it does for you, and he will only work towards that end. God is not a man who only cares for himself and then (and if that happens) bothers to consider the needs of his people. He will give you what you want in excess both in this world and in the next, otherwise every word he ever said is a lie. Don’t be discouraged, and don’t think that your life is pointless, this is a critical phase you are journeying in where the vital lessons for your perfection are had. See it as an oppurtunity to become like unto God, and you do that by obedience and persevering for the love of God. The more you obey and persevere, the greater is your reward. Keep in mind, that God will work through you in a your own unique way and that means that he has prepared a very special plan for you.

I’ll keep you in my prayers, but I want you to know from a person that went through the same phase that you are experiencing, that you will look back and thank God for this experience. 🙂
 
MiracleNeeded said:
I know it is wrong to even question this. I was taught to believe that God loves us all. However, I am struggling, and have been for a very long time now. I feel like God does not love me. Is it possible that I have done something that would keep God from loving me? I just feel like he has been ignoring me for so long, and do not know what to do. If God does not love me, what is the point in my existence?
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Have you discussed your feelings with a trusted priest or psychological counselor? If not, you might consider doing so. Family and close friends may also be able to offer you support. Remember that even if G-d does not always seem to answer your prayers, that too may be His way of encouraging you to take a different course of action. His love for you, however, does not waver, no matter what sins you may have committed.
 
I had major serious surgery in 2005. Normal recovery time supposed to be 3 or 4 weeks. At that time I had almost 2 liters of fluid removed from my left lung since it was more congested than my right. They will only do one at a time since there is risk of collapsing the lung and they wanted me to have use of at least one lung.

This was my most serious surgery, but the first time I didn’t recover in less time than normal. I began asking God where he was while I was praying? Why didn’t he answer my prayer? Was I doing something wrong? I still got no answer. Was God saying “NO” to me? I never did get an answer, but only a question. God asked me when I was the happpiest with Him? This took me by surprise. I had never had a question answered with a question. To get to the point, I had to return to doing the things I was doing when I was happy with Him. It wasn’t easy, but I did get started. The more I did these things, the better my health got.

Try it. You might like it! I’m sure God will like it.
 
EmeraldWings said:
but why do you feel like God has been ignoring you? if you explain more about why you feel this way, then perhaps i can help more.
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If you will read my original post “miracleneeded” that will explain my situation. It is too long to re-post here!
 
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