Jesus Loves You

By Brooke Momblow

Do you know? That Jesus loves you? Jesus loves you.

In adversity, in heartbreak, in brokenness, in abandonment, in job loss, in sickness, in failure, in all the trials of life – Jesus loves you.

Jesus loves me, this I believe.

Do you believe Jesus loves you? How much do you think he loves you? Just a little bit? A lot? What are you basing your answer on? The Bible? Recognizing the Holy Spirit in your life? Do you know what the Bible says about how great God’s love is for you?

Jesus loves me, this I know.

Maybe you’ve decided that you believe Jesus loves you. But have you come to know this love? Does the realization of his love for you shake you at your foundation? Does the love of The Everlasting God turn your view of life inside out and right-side up? Are you in awe of it?

“And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge – that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.” Ephesians 3:17-19

When you begin to glimpse the truth of how great Christ’s love for you is, everything else pales in the light of it. All at once you are both bursting with incomprehensible joy and bowing in humble disbelief. This love permeates your heart and mind, and you find yourself wanting to love people you’ve never loved before. You just can’t seem to hold it back. In the face of such great love, your love for God grows and you recognize in your heart, “though he slay me, yet I will trust him.” Is it possible to believe a statement like that is true for you? Is it really possible to know something of such great magnitude? Love like His changes everything.

I know, that I know Jesus loves me. So I must emphatically say to you because the Spirit in me testifies to it:

Jesus loves you! Right where you are, He sees you. He knows you. He loves you.

You are loved with an everlasting love.

“I think God sometimes uses the completely inexplicable events in our lives to point us toward Him. We get to decide each time whether we will lean in toward what is unfolding and say yes or back away. The folks who were following Jesus in Galilee got to decide the same thing each day because there was no road map, no program, and no certainty. All they had was this person, an idea, and an invitation to come and see.” Bob Goff in Love Does

“Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so; little ones, to him belong, they are weak, but He is strong. Yes, Jesus loves me!” Hymn, William Batchelder Bradbury

Read again the scripture above and pray as you do for the fullness of God in you, Beloved.