You are loved. Perfectly.

No matter what you are going through or how much it hurts, you are loved perfectly. Here and now, as things are in all their intense agony and deep misery, you are loved by almighty God, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. This God has spared nothing to prove His love for you, becoming man and taking all your sins, guilt, griefs, and pain upon Himself and suffering in this world to deliver you from eternal suffering.

You did not have to earn this love or become worthy in order to receive it; He doesn't love you because you can do anything for Him. He loves you because you are HIS, and and that is cause enough for Him to even die in your place to win heaven for you.

So right now, no matter if you are on a hospital bed, going through a divorce, or struggling to even put food on the table, please stop for just a moment and ponder: God loves me. He loves me now, He loves me here, and He knows exactly what I'm going through. In some mysterious hidden way, this too will work out for my good and His glory if I can just believe, or even *want* to believe but can't.

We all suffer.

But in reality, none of us suffers alone. The Lamb of God Who takes away the sins of the world suffers with us, in us, and for us. He offers us the unfathomable mercy of uniting our sufferings with His own, thereby sanctifying them and elevating them to a redemptive value. Our suffering and sorrows are imbued with divine purpose when we unite them to His.

You are loved. Perfectly. Believe it. Absorb it. Cling to this truth with all your might. God loves you NOW. And He will never change His mind.

Originally posted 17 January 2020