Why is God Worthy of My Love?

Have you ever thought about what makes God so great? I have heard people praying and recognizing so many wonderful and powerful things about God.  Their prayers talk about how powerful God is.  He is the King of the Universe, all-powerful and mighty.  By simply speaking He is able to create all things.  Nothing can exist without Him.

He is also all knowing, even to the point of knowing how many hairs there are on our heads.  He is omnipresent so that we cannot  hide from Him and there is nothing we can do which He would not know about.  There is nothing new to Him.  All our greatest technology is simplistic to Him.  Our greatest minds are as preschoolers compared to His most elementary thoughts.

He owns everything.  Forget about the richest men in the world.  God owns the universe and could make many more universes if He wanted to.  He rules from a city where the foundations are of precious gems, and the streets are of gold.  He has servants whose only desire is to serve Him and they wait patiently around His throne just to hear what His next words are.

He lives outside of time.  He was before time began, and He will be after time ends.  There is nothing which has ever happened where He was not there and had an intricate knowledge of.  He is more wonderful, awesome and powerful then we can even imagine.

All I have said above is true, but I don’t care about all that.  It is not meaningless but it is not what is truly important about God.  You can take all that away and God would still be more wonderful than anything or anyone living.

What makes God worthy of my love?  It is not because of all I have written here.  Those things are simply abilities and states of His status.  The real reason to love God is found in 1 John 4:19 “We love him, because he first loved us.”

God loves you so much that He actually gave up all the wonderful and powerful things I mentioned the first part of this post.  Jesus gave up all of Heaven’s riches and glory to be born in a barn and live in a primitive world full of sin, sorrow and death.  He had no power of his own except what The Father sent through Him.  Jesus loved us so much that he gave up everything, including his earthly life so that we can know God and live eternally with Him.

Forget about power and riches.  I want to know Jesus and be with him because of his heart’s love for me.  How can I deny such love?  Even if Heaven and eternal life were not promised to me, I would still have to love Him.

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