Why does God love us?

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Well, my question is pretty much in the title. I apologize if the answer is obvious, but why does God love us? Why does He care?

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I am 63 years old, have spent most of my life serving God as a Pastor, and I still look toward God in awe with that question nearly overwhelming me: “Why does God love us?”
I can think of many, many reasons why I love Him…but why should He love a sinner like me?
 
i forget which saint said it, but i read from one of them that in heaven we will be contemplating just that for all eternity…why does He love us?..of course the simple answer is “because He is love”…but we still don’t understand even that…it’s just a mystery, and since we can’t understand it well enough to put it into words, so God showed us His love through Jesus, because atleast that way we can see His love, even if we don’t understand it…

God owes us nothing, He didn’t have to create us, but He did, because He is all good and all love…He even wants to reward us for our little acts of love for Him by giving us heaven and many other wonderful gifts, we don’t deserve it in the least, but He wants to give it to us, it’s ours for the taking, just as long as we follow His commandments, which are also only commanded out of love for us…

it’s really a good thing to contemplate on, and you’ll never tire of it.
 
When something is as pure as God there intentions are selfless. Love is selfless. God is an amazing overwhleming being the fact God loves me fills me with humility at the lords genoristy to even consider me worthy of his love. By the way what brang this up and isn’t lovely to just talk about the love God has for us 🙂
 
God is infinite. God is a Trinity. What is a Trinity, but absolute relationship? Within One, there is a three-fold pining and yearning that is never anxious, and always fulfilled. The Father points to the Son, the Son to the Father, and the Holy Spirit to both. Each Person of that holy and blessed Trinity is in constant, unending joyous relationship with the other. Before time and space even existed; before eternity and infinity were conceived or measured by our tiny minds; before one strain of music had emanated from the depths of the abyss; before even one wing was heard to flutter in a flock of gulls, God was, is, and forever shall be extant, singing hymns to Himself and flying in the greatest heights of light, the light that enlightens the universe He created.

In the blessed Trinity is all virtue and perfection, and all glory and honour and power and empire and majesty FOREVER and ever. AMEN. Who can possibly believe that God would not want to share this intense state of endless perfection and glory with the world? When you are in love, you want to share that joyous will with EVERYONE you meet. The world becomes brighter and brighter and greater and greater every second you’re alive. God cannot be said to progress or regress in joy, of course, but it’s just a metaphor. 🙂 When we are really happy, we want everyone else to be happy. Since we’re made in God’s most holy image, who’s to say that we aren’t like Him in this aspect?
 
lefty22 said:
Well, my question is pretty much in the title. I apologize if the answer is obvious, but why does God love us? Why does He care?

Thanks!

~Lefty22
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Because He is love, because He made us…

love is self giving and He wants to give Himself to us in the Holy Eucharist, and we give ourselves to Him as well 🙂

He died for us…
 
God loves us because God is God.

He shares our dark times and good times; he loves us in sin or grace; he loves us when we are least lovable; he still loves us when we fall. When you think He isn’t there, He is right beside you, loving you unconditionally. Because God is God.
 
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