God Loves Murderers
We love him, because he first loved us. 1 John 4:19
In a few short words the Apostle John reveals to believers the truth that so eluded the Pharisees in Jesus’ day and is still a mystery to many people today. The cry or demand of most religions around the world is still the same, “You must love God” but the gospel declares, that God loves us and He loved us first!
What an awesome thought, that we are the object of his amazing love and we continue to be because He is love.
If God loved us first, then that means we did nothing to earn or deserve His love. To believe that God does not love you is to accuse God of not being truthful. Don’t allow your emotions or past failures and history to make you feel disqualified from knowing and experiencing Gods love today. God used a man who killed Christians to write 2/3 of the New Testament and that same man taught believers that “nothing can separate us from Gods love,” Romans 8:38
Paul wasn’t the only murder God used to help us understand how amazing Gods love for us is, Moses who killed an Egyptian was privileged to be shown Gods goodness and mercy in Exodus 23:18–19. David who had Bathsheba’s husband killed, reminds us that we should never forget all of Gods benefits, “He forgives all our sins and heals all of our diseases and redeems our life from destruction.” Psalm 103:2–4
