Yesterday my daughter asked me a question that caught me a bit off guard. She wanted to know how you feel God’s love. She said that she knows He loves her…but, how does she really know or feel it for herself and not just because it’s what she’s been told. She asked me this while I was still at work and it was a bit hectic so I told her that we would talk about it that night.
After I got off the phone, I’m thinking to myself…how can I explain this to her? I’m not even sure it’s something you can put into words. I mean I realize it’s written countless times in the bible; His love and sacrifice for us fills its pages, but that’s not exactly what she is referring to. She wants to know how she’s supposed to feel His love for herself. What came to me was that this knowledge and feeling comes to us personally in two ways.
I started thinking about it as a mother loves her child; we may not always say it, but our actions prove and show our undying love for our children. It’s through our taking care of them, teaching them and laughing with them that they come to know how much it is that we love them. Not just in knowledge either…they truly feel loved because of our actions towards them.
This is where our own personal experience has to come into play. We must think on how He loves and blesses us. He shows His love in the fact that He sent His only son who committed no sins, to die for our sins. God wakes us each morning and takes care of us throughout the day. Anything we are able to do or have is because of Him. His love for us is shown through our daily blessings.
There are so many ways to see and feel His love…through the love that we receive from family or from a warm smile from a stranger on a bad day. We have to sometimes change the way we look at things…at life. What we have may have been physically handed to or done for us by someone…but, ultimately it came from God. He cares enough for us, that even though we can’t see Him in the physical, He sends His love through things and people we can physically touch and see.
There is also another side to this…to feeling the emotional part of His love for us. This part comes from our own personal relationship with Him. No one can tell us how we feel His love, but instead we have to feel it for ourselves. We can get this by truly meditating on Him…by praying to Him and seeking His presence. By spending routine, as well as spontaneous, time with Him; in His word and doing His works. The more time we spend with our minds on Him the closer we feel to Him and the more we can feel His presence and love for us.
As I write this, I’m wondering if there really is a set answer for this question. I think it depends on who we are and what makes us feel loved. We really are a people that live off of our emotions and sometimes just knowing something is not enough. Wanting to know how He loves us or how we can feel it, in my opinion, boils down to our own personal relationship with Him. The more we seek Him, the more we feel Him. The more we can feel His presence, the more we can feel His matchless love for us.
God is always there, ever present and ready to listen to us. If…when we express a true desire in our hearts to know and feel His love for us, He will be faithful to fulfill that desire.
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