I was thinking about stumbling blocks today…you know those lies that the devil uses to trip us up and cause us to doubt God…or to question His love for us?
What's a “stumbling block”?
A stumbling block is any circumstance that causes you difficulty or hesitation... that causes you to doubt God’s love for you!
Stumbling blocks are lies from satan that depress you, make you feel badly about yourself, make you question your faith...anything and everything that stands between you and a close relationship with your loving Heavenly Father!
Our Father is a loving Father...but more than that He IS Love! This word “Love” comes from the Greek word Agape which is defined as an unconditional love, the highest form of love, the love of God for man and of man for God.
What is Unconditional Love?
Do you know what it means to have unconditional love?
Simply put it’s Love without any strings attached. It’s offered freely. It isn’t earned or deserved. It isn’t based on what we do or who we are…it’s based on Whose we are!
It’s based on the Fact that God is LOVE! Nothing more…nothing less.
God IS Love and therefore He loves us and always will! Nothing we do can stop His Love for us. We can’t earn it. It isn’t based on what we do or don’t do. God’s LOVE just is!
We are children of God. Made in His image. And we were bought back from the devil for an extremely high price…the beating and bloodied body of Christ, crucified for us so that His blood and brokenness could pay the price for our sins and our healing.
Just as it says in 1 Peter 2:24...
Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed.
Stop and think about this for a moment! How often have you felt unloved by God? How often have you wondered whether God could still love you after what you’ve done?!? How often have you judged yourself unlovable because all you can see is the truckload of sins you have to your name? How often have you felt unworthy of His love—felt like there was a wall between you and God?
Do you see the lies here? Can you spot the untruths? Do you see how the devil has used your fears, your doubts, your feelings of unworthiness to beat you over the head and convince you that it’s not possible for anyone, not even God, to love you?
God is good! The devil is bad!
When you look at your unloveliness, your sin, your failures, your shortcomings—can you believe God loves you? Or do you feel that it’s impossible for God to love you?
Does it make you feel good to feel unloved by God? Then who do you think is the source of that bad feeling you have about yourself?
Still not sure that God loves you unconditionally? Check out these verses…
Romans 5:8
But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Zephaniah 3:17
The Lord your God in your midst, the Mighty One, will save; He will rejoice over you with gladness, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing.
Romans 8:37-39
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Isaiah 54:10
“Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet My unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor My covenant of peace be removed," says the Lord, who has compassion on you.
Psalm 136:26
Give thanks to the God of heaven. His love endures forever.
God’s Love NEVER stops flowing toward us…NEVER! Not even when we don’t deserve it! His Love endures forever. It’s unstoppable!
If you are struggling to believe that God’s Love for you never ends and never changes please DM me. I used to feel the same way—so I know what you’re going through! I’d be happy to share what I’ve learned and help you to find your own security in God’s incredible love 💞 for you!
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