I knew the Bible said He loved me and I heard many sermons on God’s love for His children; in fact, I think I even preached a sermon on the love of God!
There is however a big difference between knowing something and really experiencing it. At that stage I only had head knowledge about the love of God. To make matters worse, because of circumstances I did not feel worthy enough to be loved by Him!
It wasn’t until I read 2 Corinthians 4:7a(NIV) that I started to experience God’s love for me:
7 But we have this treasure in jars of clay…
I could identify with the “jars of clay” part; I knew I was just a broken vessel. But it totally blew my mind that there was a treasure inside of me and this treasure was actually God Himself! He, the Creator of heaven and earth, Almighty, all-knowing, was living inside of me!
This was the beginning of experiencing something of His love for me – knowing that He lives inside of me. But still there was some doubt about Him loving me…
One day, I took some guts to ask Him myself (you can actually do that). “Lord, how can I really know that you love me?”
The answer was simple, but it was enough to let me experience His love: “How can I not love you Anina, I live inside of you and I AM Love!”
We have this treasure of Love living inside of us… how can we not be loved?
Shalom!
Anina
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