God never stops loving you. [Spirituality & Religion]

Contrary to belief, God's love for us never wavers. When we get into trouble, we tend to put distance between ourselves and God. When we especially need God's help, we hide our failure and our hurt (as if we could hide from God). Because we are embarrassed and angry with ourselves, we assume that God is angry with us, too. God's love does not depend on us, on our good behavior, or our right decisions. God simply loves us. He chose to love us. We are God's creation and God's children, and we are loved - no matter what. He doesn't love our sin, because it separates us from Him, but he loves us, as a person, and He proved that, when he died on the cross, so we might have eternal life in heaven.

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littlefire333 · 56-60, F

God does love those who do not love him back. But he is also saving his rath for those who do not believe. Anyone who disrespects God purposely, deserves what they have coming to them. Their arrogance will be, their ignorance, this fatal flaw will give way to their own destruction.

LadyGrace ·

Let's take a look at wrath for a moment.

Either Jesus died on the cross for the sins of the world, or He didn't, but John 3:16 tells us He did. He died for the world, not just a few.

God's wrath was satisfied in Jesus - Romans 3:26. He did what we could not do, and he has done what we didn’t deserve. Jesus paid the debt that we owed, so that God can show His grace and love to all that trust in Jesus Christ. Jesus is not mad at us. He loves us with all His heart. God is not willing that any perish. He is not against people. He is against SIN. It separates us from God. Heaven wouldn't be heaven, if sin was there. When we acknowledge that and ask for forgiveness, he forgives and that brings us back into fellowship with God, giving us eternal life in heaven. He not only said He loves us, He proved it when He took all our sins upon Himself and paid the penalty for sin, which is death.

– Hebrews 2:17
...and He Himself is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world.

– 1 John 4:10
At the cross, Jesus took our sin upon Himself. He paid the penalty for our sin. He became our substitute. At the cross God’s justice was satisfied, and His love fulfilled. Then Jesus said, “It is accomplished.” And He bowed His head and gave up His spirit.

Note carefully that the benefits of Jesus’ death justifies “the one who has faith in Jesus” (3:26). Paul emphasizes faith in verses 21-31. It’s in verses 22, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30 (twice), and 31. Faith is NOT a work on our part that contributes toward our salvation. It is a gift (we have not earned) from God and not something that we originate, or we would boast in our faith (Eph. 2:8-9; Phil. 1:29). Faith is the hand that RECEIVES the gift of justification that God provides through the substitutionary death of Jesus Christ.

We put our faith in His blood in the sense that we trust in His death on the cross as our only means of being right with God. What that means is, we trust in Jesus Himself. It is the faith that realizes, “I’m spiritually terminal and I can’t heal myself. But Jesus can. His death paid the awful penalty that my sin deserves. Abandoning all efforts to save myself by my own good deeds, I am trusting totally in Jesus and His shed blood.”