You Are Loved

Lately I have been thinking a lot about love. What it means to love, what it means to be loved by a friend, family member, or boyfriend, and, most importantly, what it means to love and me loved by God. This weekend I watched “Titanic” with three of my friends at a sleepover. I began to notice a pattern in the girls as we watched the movie. They all loved the romanic. They loved the way Jack patiently persuaded Rose’s heart and the way he laid down his life to save her. They love it because they want to be loved by someone the way that Jack loved Rose: selflessly and without conditions.

This is something that every girl wants but many don’t think that they could ever have it. They don’t believe that a man could possibly love them like that and be willing to lay down his life to save theirs, but what they don’t know is someone has already done that for them. God, the creator of the heavens and the Earth, the one who taught the sun to shine and the planets to hover in the night sky, loves us so much that he stepped down from his throne and became one of us so that he could save us from our sin.

He could have chosen to come down from heaven surrounded by an army of angels or be born into a royal family, but instead he came in the most humble way he could. He was born in a stable by a young virgin named Mary. Because she was not married when she had him, many people looked down on her. In fact, people would have looked down on Jesus and his mother for his whole life.

Not only was he born into our world in a humble way, but he also died that way. The religious leaders and teachers of Judaism hated him because they were jealous of all his power and the attention the people were giving him. They hated him so much that they had him arrested and killed by Roman soldiers. Before he was killed, he was whipped and beaten almost to the point of death. Then he was forced to carry a wooden cross through the city and up to the top of a hill where he was nailed to the cross and hung from it until he died. As he hung there, people spit at him and mocked him. He rose from the grave three days later on Sunday morning.

He came to the earth to die for each one of us so that we can be freed from our sin and live in relationship with him. Sometimes we start to look down on ourselves. We begin to wonder if anyone could ever love us, but then God reminds us that he loves us so much that he died for us. In the Bible it says that he “loved you at your darkest,” (Romans 5:8) So don’t let Satan tell you that you are beyond love because Jesus loves you more than you can comprehend and he always will.

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