A Fourth Grader asks, "Why does God love us?"

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Thursday July 31, 2014
Jeff Lampl

  

Hi ____________ in fourth grade, 

Thanks for asking a great question!   Here’s what you asked.   “Why does God love us?”   There are a lot of answers to this question.   Here’s the first one.  Notice this Bible verse.

“God is love”  1 John 4:8   

This verse tells us that God always, always loves us because He can’t help it.     That’s just who God is.  He loves us because He is love itself. 

A second answer is that God made us and we are his children and every good father loves his children.   Notice what this verse says;

“Long ago, even before he made the world, God chose us to be his very own children . . . .
 His unchanging plan has always been to adopt us into his own family by sending Jesus Christ to die for us. And he did this because he wanted to!”   
                    Ephesians 1:4-5 (TLB)  

This verse tells us that he made us and then he even adopted us into his family because he wants us as his children.   That’s amazing!   God WANTS you as his son or as his daughter.   He PICKED YOU!  He picked you to love and when you do something wrong, guess what, he forgives you every time that you ask Him to!   On the cross Jesus took the things you do wrong onto himself and forgives you!   Why?   Just because he wanted to!!!!  

This means that God loves you when you’re good and God loves you when you’re bad, He just loves you all the time, no matter what!    That’s really, really good news!  

Hope this helps!  

God bless,  
Pastor Jeff

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