God's Unfailing Love For Me and For You

“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 4:10)

“And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.” (1 John 4:16)

I’ve always struggled with knowing that I am loved; likewise, I’ve also struggled to believe I’m of any worth or value. Nearly my entire life I have striven to make myself ‘worthy’ of being loved through how I look, speak, act and, especially, through what I achieve.

Consequently, God’s unconditional love for me, apart from what I achieve has often been a struggle for me to truly understand.  However, I knew that my lack of understanding didn’t change the fact that God does indeed love me unconditionally.

I prayed very earnestly one night that God would reveal His love for me and that I would understand it and feel it experientially in my heart.  As I was praying, a picture of a fetus came into my mind.  Immediately I knew that the fetus was me before I’d done anything to make myself ‘worthy’ of being loved.  As God gave me this vision, He also poured out a torrent of His love and His acceptance of me into my heart.  I experienced a very deep miraculous healing in my heart at the time of this revelation, especially in the area of love and self-worth/value.

The number of battles I have with these issues has greatly decreased since this revelation, but when they do arise I always go back to this revealed truth that God loves me inherently as I am.

The ultimate demonstration of God’s love is displayed in sending Jesus to rescue us from our sins through his atoning death on the cross.  He did this to save us from hell and bring us into a loving relationship with Him.

“Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” (Romans 5:7-8)

“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” (John 3:16)

I pray that God will bring others healing through the truth expressed in this painting.  I also hope he’ll bring comfort to those who have had to endure miscarriages.  I also earnestly pray that God will use this painting to save the lives of many precious children whose mothers are considering aborting them.