How Does God Feel About You? | John 17:5

[00:00:00] Real Truth Daily. This is Daily Truths with Dave Ahlman. Hi everybody, welcome back to Daily Truths. Question for you today, how does God feel about you right now? I've asked that question a lot down through the years and I've gotten all kinds of answers. Sometimes I've heard people say, well, he's angry at me or he really hates me or he's indifferent towards me

[00:00:27] or he really doesn't care about me or sometimes I hear people even say, you know, he's up there in heaven. He doesn't even know what's going on in my life. How could he care about me? I got to ask, why do people and maybe why do you feel that way? Oftentimes because things have gone wrong in people's lives or they've made so many mistakes, so many sins in their life that they feel that they're not worthy of God's love. And so they say, well, how could God love somebody like me?

[00:00:54] So again, I've got to ask you, how does God feel about you right now? Is he disappointed with you? Is he upset at you? Does he want to punish you? How does he feel about you at this very moment? In the book of John chapter 17, verse four, Jesus says these words, actually verse five,

[00:01:23] and now father glorify me in your own presence. In other words, let the majesty, the magnificence, the glory, the splendor, the spotlight be on me in your presence as I'm carrying out the work that you've called me to do, especially going to the cross and the empty tomb. Okay. So he says, and now father glorify me in your own presence with the glory. Listen to this, that I had with you before the world existed.

[00:01:52] In other words, Jesus is saying I'm eternal along with the father and the spirit. I existed with the father and the spirit before the world was ever created. Well, what did they do? They were filled up with love. And as Michael W. Smith said in a song many years ago, he said, love isn't love until it's given away.

[00:02:16] And so God, the father, son, and Holy spirit had all this love that needed to be manifested upon, listen to this, upon you today. Listen to what the Bible says about God's relationship with you regarding his love towards you. God demonstrated his own love for us in this. While we're still sinners, Christ died for us. First John says, this is love.

[00:02:42] Not that we love God, but that he loved us and gave his son as an atoning sacrifice for our sin. God demonstrated his own love. God has shown his love. God has manifested his love. God has glorified his love through his son. John chapter three, verse 16, the best known verse in all the Bible says, God so loved the world. God so loved you that he gave you his only begotten son, that whoever believes in him will not perish, but have everlasting life. That's you.

[00:03:11] God's love for you is unconditional. You don't have to jump through a bunch of spiritual hoops to gain it. It's already yours through Jesus. He gives you that love. He manifests that love with no strings attached. He doesn't say I love you if I love you when I love you because I love you when you do this and avoid that. He doesn't say that at all. He loves you with no strings attached. He doesn't say, well, if I love you better earn that love. If I love you better deserve that love.

[00:03:41] If I love you, you better make sure that you show that you really love me back. If you don't, that love isn't there. No, his love is unconditional with no strings attached. And he loves you no matter how desperately you failed and you sinned against him. So as I've said many times, what do we do with that love? We receive it by faith and we share it with others. We receive it by faith and we share it with others.

[00:04:09] We become conduits, channels, vessels of that love where love comes into our lives and then we dispense it to other people around us. And that's what it means to be a follower of Jesus, to receive his love and to share his love with others. So again, today I ask you, how does God feel about you right now? And the answer? Well, he existed before the foundation of the world.

[00:04:38] There was all this love between the Father and the Spirit and the Son. And they have given you that love. The Spirit has produced faith in your heart to receive it. And the best thing you can do today is to say thank you for that love. And I will share that love, that forgiveness, that pardon, that acceptance with other people today.

[00:04:59] And when you, Holy Spirit, open the door for me to testify of this astounding, amazing, magnificent, unparalleled love, let me do it with the boldness that only you can give. Okay? Have a great day in the Lord Jesus Christ. And that is today's Daily Truth. Thank you for tuning in to Daily Truths with Dave Ahlman. If this ministry is blessing you, please consider supporting us by sharing this channel with a friend. You can also like, comment, subscribe, or leave a review.

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