We Are God’s Beloved
“So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.” — 1 John 4:16
The greatest happiness and peace in life comes from knowing that we are loved unconditionally, for exactly who we are, with all our strengths and weaknesses. No one is fully capable of loving us unconditionally all the time — only God can love us that way. He loves us unconditionally, no matter what we do. Because we are God’s beloved, there’s never a single second when we aren’t perfectly loved. The enemy will use many different tricks to challenge our belief that we are beloved. He may use words other people have spoken against us, situations in which we have been victimized, mistakes, failures, disappointments, and anything else that would damage the way we see ourselves. If we have been deeply wounded in our lives, receiving love isn’t always easy. We can’t get discouraged. Instead, we must let the desire of our heart be to embrace God’s love even more. God’s unconditional love for us and our place as His beloved is a nugget of truth we can hold onto, knowing that we are secure in God’s love and confident in the purpose He has for our life.
