The greatest sorrow and burden you can lay on the Father, the greatest unkindness you can do to him is not to believe that he loves you” (John Owen). We can add, that the greatest hurt and harm we can do to ourselves is not to believe that God loves us. We were created out of love, through love, and for love to live within God’s joyful communion of love.  But, tragically, too many miss that by failing to simply believe that he really does love them to the core.  

God has wonderfully demonstrated his own love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.  Christ gave himself for us, not while we were godly or righteous or worthy in some other way, but while we were God rejecting sinners.  God as human died for his enemies with no guarantees that we would ever turn to him.  Furthermore, God pours his love into our hearts by the Spirit that he has freely given us in Christ.  And by that same Spirit, we grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ.  By the Spirit, we come to know this love that surpasses knowledge. 

God has revealed through Jesus a limitless ocean of love between the Father, the Son, and the Spirit, an ocean that overflows towards humanity even when that humanity has turned against him.  And God takes us ever deeper into the revelation of himself as Love in his Spirit. Truly God loves us and wants us to know his love.