God's Love for us

[LauraDymphna]

I have a question on God’s Love for us. I recognize fully and scripturally that God loves people, however, even though I know this is un-Scriptural, and anti-Tradition, internally, I fight with myself on whether or not God ever un-loves, or rejects us as His own. Like say that someone has something they keep trying and failing and they can’t get it right or its imperfect. Does God un-love, reject, or say “I’m finished with you because you can’t do it right, or does he deliver the person to their failures.” Anyway…any scriptures or prayers would be useful.
Thanks
Laura

 

[Lifeisawesome]

Never - in the passion, suffering, and death of Christ on the cross we have the clear message of how much God loves us and how far he will go to redeem us. Until our judgement day he constantly calls us to redemption and a deeper relationship with him.

 

[Bohm_Bawerk]

I have a question on God’s Love for us. I recognize fully and scripturally that God loves people, however, even though I know this is un-Scriptural, and anti-Tradition, internally, I fight with myself on whether or not God ever un-loves, or rejects us as His own. Like say that someone has something they keep trying and failing and they can’t get it right or its imperfect. Does God un-love, reject, or say “I’m finished with you because you can’t do it right, or does he deliver the person to their failures.” Anyway…any scriptures or prayers would be useful.
Thanks
Laura

No, God doesn’t “un-love” you. In fact, whenever you get the feeling that God has “had enough of you” because of your tendency to fall to sin, that is the devil speaking! Remember, that the devil wants you to believe that God will not forgive you for your sins. This is because such feeling leads to what is known as “blasphemy of the Holy Spirit”, which is the only unforgivable sin (Matthew 12:32). Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit is when you reject God’s mercy on the grounds that you believe that your sin is greater than God’s mercy. Given that blasphemy of the Holy Spirit is an unforgivable sin, it leads to Hell.

What convinces me that God forgives everyone is well, Adam the Patriarch. He brought sin into the world when he ate the apple, yet he is recognized as a saint. In other words, he is in Heaven. His sin was perhaps the worst sin in all of Man’s history, since it brought sin into the world (Romans 5:12). Yet he was forgiven, and so I’m sure that God will be willing to forgive whatever it is that you’ve committed just so long as you take it to the Confessional!

Thank you,
Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk

 

[fhansen]

I have a question on God’s Love for us. I recognize fully and scripturally that God loves people, however, even though I know this is un-Scriptural, and anti-Tradition, internally, I fight with myself on whether or not God ever un-loves, or rejects us as His own. Like say that someone has something they keep trying and failing and they can’t get it right or its imperfect. Does God un-love, reject, or say “I’m finished with you because you can’t do it right, or does he deliver the person to their failures.” Anyway…any scriptures or prayers would be useful.
Thanks
Laura

God, Himself, suffered and died at the hands of humankind-totally rejected-the ultimate loser. He did this so we would know in no uncertain terms that He identifies with us and loves us all unconditionally, from the greatest to the least. When we can’t accept that love it’s often our own pride causing us to stumble, by listening to the accuser-the voice that poses as God and tempts us to hate ourselves for our “failures”. But God reveals *Himself *as humble-hearted, coming as a simple carpenter, living among and loving sinners, laying His life down for all in a humiliating death. And He even tells us that He chose the weak and foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise and the proud.
It’s never God who rejects us-it’s we who reject Him.

 

[AlanFromWichita]

I have a question on God’s Love for us. I recognize fully and scripturally that God loves people, however, even though I know this is un-Scriptural, and anti-Tradition, internally, I fight with myself on whether or not God ever un-loves, or rejects us as His own.

I think God is there for everything we need, and if we know what things are best for us and pray for them, He is also there to satisfy out wants – and if you let Him and don’t try to control the future too much, he will satisfy it more than it you ever felt rejected.

Plus, you can’t trust your feelings. Mother Theresa felt separated from God for years, but she kept up her work. Doesn’t mean God is with her, but since God’s native language sounds like silence to our human ears, one has to be able to hear subtle groanings of the spirit.

Like say that someone has something they keep trying and failing and they can’t get it right or its imperfect. Does God un-love, reject, or say “I’m finished with you because you can’t do it right, or does he deliver the person to their failures.” Anyway…any scriptures or prayers would be useful.

God can make a universe out of nothing. Maybe many universes we don’t know about. He can forgive you 70 times 7 times as many times as you need.

Like Rich Mullins once said, “God didn’t call us to be perfect, just to be obedient.”

He also said, “God loves me. That doesn’t mean I’m special, it just means God has poor taste.”

I like the way he thinks.

Alan