TWO MINUTE MESSAGE - DOES GOD LOVES ME JUST THE WAY I AM?

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Have you ever heard someone say “God loves me just the way I am.” 

Is that true? 

HI I’M PASTOR RICK JONES and I have about a TWO MINUTE MESSAGE for you to think about.

Someone once told me, “God made me this way so He must love me this way”  Is that true?

Does God love the brothers who bombed the Boston Marathon?—just the way they are? 

Does God love people who break their promises, who live only to please themselves, and who could care less about other people?

The Bible tells us that “God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son”  We read, “God demonstrated His love to us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us…”

SO GOD’S love is not based on what we have done—good or bad—

It is not based on how important we are—

It is not based on our income—

It is not based on where we live—

It’s not based on who we are related to—

GOD’S LOVE FOR US IS BASED ON WHO WE ARE—HIS CREATION.  He breathed life into us, and He loves us!   Our DNA was designed by Him, is held together by Him, and is highly valued by Him!

AND THINK OF THIS…THOUGH WE HAVE IGNORED HIM, EXCLUDED HIM, DENIED HIM, AND DISHONORED HIM, HE STILL LOVES US.  That’s amazing love.

GOD’S LOVE IS LOADED WITH BENEFITS!  HE WANTS TO SHOWER US WITH THE BLESSINGS OF HIS LOVE BUT that can only happen when we reciprocate--or return His love.  A man may love a woman, do all that he can to show her that he cares and that he will be loyal to her, but unless she reciprocates—returns his love, there can be no relationship. 

IT IS WHEN WE DO RESPOND TO HIS LOVE, and WHEN WE RECIPROCATE HIS LOVE, that a wonderful thing happens—we begin a loving relationship with God Himself! 

Here’s how the Bible puts it, “God is love; and he that abides in love abides in God, and God in him.”

SO PRAY, AND TELL GOD THAT YOU ARE SORRY THAT YOU HAVE IGNORED AND EXCLUDED HIM.  ASK HIM TO FORGIVE YOU AND TO LIVE IN YOU. IN JESUS NAME.”

AND THEN…GET READY FOR A LIFE-CHANGING RELATIONSHIP WITH YOUR CREATOR!   Because —WHILE GOD LOVES US JUST THE WAY WE ARE, HE LOVES US FAR TOO MUCH TO LEAVE US AS WE ARE.   Remember He knows what we could be, and what we ought to be… He made us!

 As we love Him He changes us…

The dishonest become honest,

The dissatisfied become satisfied,

The unfaithful become faithful,

The self-centered become Christ centered,

The unholy become holy, and the

 

The unfulfilled experience the joy of life as God designed it to be!