In God's eyes we are all the same

It’s true. Feelings need to be trusted, we all need to experience God’s love before anything.

So how can one experience God’s love?

Remove the barriers
We all have barriers to cross before we can even start to feel that God loves us. So many times, even as His child, I know I can don’t feel His love at times.

Self sufficiency
“Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.” James 4: 10
Don’t we all start this way? Knowing that we don’t need a crutch in life. Who really cares about having a religion when all it entails is commitment? We all can make it without God, that is really the general thought of many people, the truth is, we have yet to know that is another big part about to unfold when God comes into our lives. Few take up this challenge to try.

Sin
“If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.” 1 John 1:8

God’s holiness is incompatible with our sins. Because we do not recognise that we need to accept Jesus’s death on the cross for our sins, we just remains cut off from God, and hence, receiving His love gets more difficult.

Skepticism
“See to it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.” Hebrews 3:12
God must be approached by faith. True, we cannot see God, but sometimes, so what if there are things we can see? We still are much blinded. How many times we are betrayed by our own beliefs? But towards God, His hope never disappoints. God gives us a choice at the end of the day if we want to draw close to Him, there is never compulsion.

If we do not rid ourselves of such barriers, it will be difficult to open our hearts to receive that moment of tenderness from God, to know what it is to be loved in an everlasting way.

Remember the Cross
“But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” Romans 5:8

God, do you really care? Do you really understand? Don’t we all ask questions like that? No matter how many years being Christians, we still never will graduate from the Cross. We always look back the day God sent his Son to purchase our sins. The day we know that that, is the start of His embracing love.

Receive the Spirit
“And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.” Romans 5:5
No one enters into the kingdom by an argument. One needs to be touched by God to turn around and be with Him again. The reality of God must be felt, not learned.

Today, I earnestly prayed for somebody. For him to be able to experience God’s love once again. He has been very brave. I don’t want to cry.