How can you know that God loves me?
God loves all human beings. It is our Creator's desire that all attain everlasting life in His Kingdom.
Answer: God loves all human beings. This can be inferred from John 3:16: "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life." It is our Creator's desire that all attain everlasting life in His Kingdom.
The apostle Paul further explains that prayers should be made "for all men ... For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth" (1 Timothy 2:1-4, emphasis added throughout). But we first have to learn and then decide to accept God's way of life, the biblically mandated path to salvation. Our Creator has given us freedom of choice and will not force His truth on anyone.
Yet He is exceedingly patient in hopes that human beings will repent of their ways of life that result in suffering and death. The apostle Peter tells us, "The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance" (2 Peter 3:9).
We do not want to miss out on our fantastic destiny. It stretches our imaginations to the full even to try to conceive of it. Read what Paul said when he quoted Isaiah 64:4. "But as it is written: Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him. But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God" (1 Corinthians 2:9-10).
Indeed the Holy Spirit is the germ of eternal life; we must receive it from God in order to be saved. "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God" (Romans 8:14). God wants human beings to be coheirs with Jesus Christ and share His glory in the Kingdom of God (verse 17).
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