Question:

"Why does God love us?"


Answer:

This short question is among the most profound questions ever asked.
And no human would ever be able to answer it sufficiently.
One thing is certain, however. God does not love us because
we are lovable or because we deserve His love.
If anything,
the opposite is true. The state of mankind since the fall
is one of rebellion and disobedience.

Jeremiah 17:9 describes man’s inner condition:
“The heart is deceitful and desperately wicked.

Who can know it?”

Our innermost beings are so corrupted by sin
that even we don’t realize the extent to which sin has tainted us.

In our natural state,
we do not seek God;
we do not love God;
we do not desire God.

Romans 3:10-12 clearly presents the state of the natural, unregenerate person:

“There is none righteous, no, not one;
There is none who understands;
There is none who seeks after God.
They have all turned aside;
They have together become unprofitable;
There is none who does good, no, not one.”

How then is it possible
for a holy, righteous, and perfect God to love such creatures?
To understand this we must understand something of the nature
and character of God.

First John 4:8 and 16 tell us that

“God is love.”

Never was a more important declaration made than this;
never was more meaning crowded into a few words
than in this short sentence—

God is love.

This is a profound statement.

God doesn’t just love; He is love.

His nature and essence are love. Love permeates His very being
and infuses all His other attributes, even His wrath and anger.
Because God’s very nature is love, He must demonstrate love,
just as He must demonstrate all His attributes
because doing so glorifies Him. Glorifying God is the highest,
the best, and the most noble of all acts, so, naturally,
glorifying Himself is what He must do, because He is the highest
and the best, and He deserves all glory.

Since it is God's essential nature to love,

He demonstrates His love by lavishing it on undeserving people
who are in rebellion against Him.

God’s love is not a sappy, sentimental, romantic feeling.

Rather, it is agape love, the love of self-sacrifice.

He demonstrates this sacrificial love by sending His Son
to the cross to pay the penalty for our sin (1 John 4:10),
by drawing us to Himself (John 6:44), by forgiving us
of our rebellion against Him, and by sending His Holy Spirit
to dwell within us, thereby enabling us to love as He loves.
He did this in spite of the fact that we did not deserve it.

"But God demonstrates His own love for us in this:
While we were still sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8).

God's love is personal.

He knows each of us individually and loves us personally.
His is a mighty love that has no beginning and no end.
It is this experiencing of God’s love that distinguishes Christianity
from all other religions.

Why does God love us?

It is because of who He is: "God is love."


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GOD LOVES US CAUSE GOD IS NOTHING BUT LOVE AND WHAT BETTER WAY TO EXPRESS THAT LOVE THAN TO HELP AND GUIDE PEOPLE WHO DOES NOTR DESERVE THE LOVE, BUT GOD SAYS WE DO DESERVE HIS LOVE CAUSE IN HIS EYES NOTHING IS BAD EXCEPT SATAN WHO IS NOT LOVE.

Thank you for your response, littleike...

God is Love but He is also Just.

For all those who are now in a correct relationship with Him,
such status was attained only by the Grace of God,
because of their repentant faith in God and their acknowledgment
of the atoning work of the sacrificial death of Jesus for their sins.

Gospel of the kingdom of God.
Very briefly, it is “bad news and good news.”

BAD NEWS: You are a sinner.
“All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” – Romans 3:23;

“The wages of sin is death (eternal separation from God).” – Romans 6:23.

GOOD NEWS: Christ died for you.
“God demonstrates His own love toward us,
in that

while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” – Romans 5:8.

You can be saved through faith.

“For by grace you have been saved (delivered from the penalty of sin)
through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
not of works, that no one should boast.” – Ephesians 2:8, 9.

In other words,

there is absolutely nothing that we can do which would be righteous enough
to cancel out our debt of sin and to reconcile
our separation from God.

How about being kind, honest and loving?

Sorry,
and neither will membership in a particular church.

Please read this with understanding.
It is important that you understand your relationship with the LORD.

“He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf…” (II Corinthians 5:21)