You desire to be known. To be seen. To be completely accepted. To experience intimacy and safety. You want to be loved.

And yet maybe what you long for hasn’t been fully realized. Maybe you feel alone. Unseen and unnoticed. Maybe you feel like you have to conceal parts of yourself or be fake in order to be liked.

Maybe the people closest to you have hurt you. You’re still searching for love.

There is good news: The God who made the universe, who knows you better than you know yourself, loves you perfectly and completely.

The Bible says, “God is love” (1 John 4:8b). Love is at the center of who God is, and so God loves you with his full being.

But for God, love isn’t just an emotion that he feels for you. He also displays his love through action.

The Bible goes on to say, “This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins” (1 John 4:9-10).

You see, even though God loves you and I unconditionally, we haven’t loved him back. We’ve broken his heart by going against what he wants for us and for the world. We’ve worshiped other things instead of him. We’ve hated and done violence to our fellow humans. We’ve perpetuated the cycle of brokenness that has plagued all of history.

God could have abandoned us to our brokenness the same way we walked away from him, but he didn’t. Instead, he loved. Instead, he enacted a rescue plan: he took on human form in Jesus to die in our place, to die a death on a cross that we deserved. So instead of being condemned to brokenness and death, he offers us forgiveness and new life through Jesus. He did all of this for you because he loves you.

God knows you intimately. He sees and cares for you. He offers you a relationship where you can be completely accepted, the good and the bad, because you have been forgiven and are being transformed from the inside out. His love will never run out for you, because he is love.

 Will you receive God’s love for you? Will you experience his love by putting your trust in what Jesus did for you on the cross? If so, or if you want to learn more, click or tap on the get involved button below.