Does God really love me despite my past

and the sins that I presently do?

 

Does God really love me despite how bad I have been in the past and the sins I find myself doing? The answer to that question is a resounding YES. Despite any sin you have done in the past, and despite the sins you may do after receiving Christ, God still loves you. The disciples asked Jesus how many times should they forgive their brother who sins against them, seven times they asked. Jesus replied seventy times seven. When you are born of God, your life is hid in Christ, when God looks upon you he sees the righteous of the Blood of the Lamb that covers you. That’s why both Paul and John say that Christians do not sin. While we may do things that are wrong, that sin will never affect our standing in regards to us being God’s sons and daughters.

 

Paul says in the book of Romans, Chapter 8:

 

35. Who shall separate us from the love  of Christ?  shall tribulation,  or  distress,  or  persecution,  or  famine,  or  nakedness,  or  peril,  or  sword?  36. As  it is written, For thy  sake  we are killed  all  the day long;  we are accounted  as  sheep  for the slaughter.  37. Nay, in all these things  we are more than conquerors  through  him that loved  us.  38. For  I am persuaded  , that  neither  death,  nor  life,  nor  angels,  nor  principalities,  nor  powers,  nor  things present  , nor  things to come, 39. Nor  height,  nor  depth,  nor  any  other  creature,  shall be able  to separate  us  from  the love  of God,  which is in  Christ  Jesus  our  Lord

 

Romans 8: 35-39 KJV

 

David, the King of Israel and a man after God’s own heart committed great sin. He lusted after his friend’s wife, placed the friend on the front lines in battle so that he would be killed and so that David could take his wife. God saw this sin of David’s and yet he was still blessed of God and had a son Solomon who rules Israel after David died. David says:

 

“Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.

Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin!”

 

 

John the Beloved talks about how God loved us before we ever loved Him. John’s writing in the book of 1 John describes our relation with God the Father and love we share for each other. In 1 John, Chapter 4, John writes:

 

8. He that loveth not knoweth not God;  for  God  is  love.  9. In  this  was manifested  the love  of God  toward  us,  because  that God  sent  his  only begotten  Son  into  the world,  that  we might live  through  him. 10. Herein   is  love,  not  that we  loved God,  but  that  he  loved  us, and  sent  his  Son  to be the propitiation  for  our  sins. 

11. Beloved, if God so  loved us,  we ought  also to love one another. 

 

15. Whosoever  shall  confess  that  Jesus  is  the Son  of God,  God dwelleth in  him, and he  in God. 

16. And  we  have known  and  believed  the love that God  hath  to  us. God  is  love; and  he that dwelleth  in  love  dwelleth  in  God,  and  God  in  him.  17. Herein  is  our   love  made perfect, that  we may have  boldness  in  the day  of judgment: because as he is, so  are  we  in  this  world.  18. There is  no  fear  in  love;  but  perfect  love  casteth out fear:  because  fear  hath  torment. He that feareth is not  made perfect  in  love. 

19. We love him, because he  first  loved  us.

 

1 John 4: 8-11, 15-19  KJV