We all want to be Loved!

"But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." Romans 5:8

It is very important to us to know that we are loved. NO ONE, is excluded from this. Everyone from the little kids, to high schoolers, even the top notch CEO's, to the coffee shop employee even the famous. It does not matter in which category you fit in, or what season in life you maybe, or even where you live, all of us want to know that we are loved.

This is something that God our creator planted in us, there is a hunger for love in each one of us. The question is, "Why?" Well, He wants us to seek the love that he has for us. The love that God offers us is a fully satisfying, perfect and unconditional love(Pause, Please re-read that last line). Wow, that is an amazing form of love that he offers. Why is it that in our nature we always have a tendency to find someone to love, but they may not offer the same type of love back.

See God demonstrates this love to us everyday. He loves us unconditionally, with a love like no other. But we turn our back on it. Many times it is because people don't want to be challenged, they don't want to grow, they don't want to change. Many people want to live day by day how they want to live. Many love their independence, love their free will and chose to go and live life on their own, trying and striving daily to find that euphoria of love. Men and women live promiscuous lives because their relationships get old, its all physical, its all for the thrill, yet they end up empty inside because they do not feel that love they are searching and hop from person to person trying to fill that void.

Many people just do not like the challenge of what it is to be in a relationship and work through rough spots. Many just like the honey moon phase of a relationship, the butterflies, the googly eyes, the drug like euphoria it produces, then it becomes real. Then the honey moon phase is over and it becomes real. The euphoria wares away and like a drug addict they need that feeling and they hop on to the next thing that will bring them that feeling.

Now lets talk about what it is like to know God's love. How do we know he truly loves us. Simple. It is the Cross, where God proved his love for us in sending his only son to cleanse us from our sins. It was not our sins that put Christ on the Cross, it was His love that put him on the cross. Talk about a sacrifice, someone died for me. Someone, loves me so much, someone has a whole-hearted love for me, and unconditional love, a patient love, a love that keeps no wrongs and they died for me. What greater love is there.

Many of us will come to know this love, we will accept Jesus Christ as our personal Savior so that we may know salvation, but then for many, that initial feeling, that euphoria wares away for many, then they try and find love else where. Like a junkie looking for their next fix they are on the prowl for that feeling again looking for it in all the wrong places, they want to find an easy love, a love that will not challenge them as much as God's love will challenge them. They want something that they will not have to work hard at and can have control over. When in fact the love that God puts before them is exactly what they need to challenge them, to mature them, to know what love really is. But unfortunately more often than not the world will chose their wants, over their needs.

Next time many of you are seeking a true love, look at the Cross. Love and only a true love, would ever do something like that. God gave you something real, something historic that will settle the issue of His love for us. I challenge you that the next time you feel unloved, look at the Cross, next time you feel doubt or disappointment, look at the Cross. Next time you blow it and the enemy whispers "he doesn't want you anymore, look at the Cross. That is a true and fulfilling LOVE.

God bless,

Fonz