God's love

For the first time today, I went to New Creation Church at Star Vista. After hearing about a few of my friends who have joined their services, and even my sister who comes from a traditional background spoke positively about the sermon, I finally gotten my lazyass off my bed on Sunday morning to attend the service. When I was there, I felt at peace.

Since years back, I've heard from many skeptics about NCC. I don't know if things have changed, but I felt the message shared today was truly focused on God, and His love for us. In fact, after today's message, I really felt more confident about whatever lies ahead. 

I learnt about the importance of knowing how much God loves you. 

When you know that God loves you, you will have the confidence that everything in life will work out, and you will need to seek security in the wrong places, and from the wrong people. 

1 John 2:15-16 "If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him."

Because we don't know how much God loves us, because we haven't experienced that love...that is why we put our focus and confidence in the "world",  like money, power, approval from men.

However, if we understand how much God loves us, we will not need to seek approval from people. The same way, if our parents continually assure us that they love us, and that we are beautiful, what others say will not matter to us. We will then have the confidence to go through life without compromising ourselves.

Through that, I also realised, in my past experience, when I was hopelessly in love with my boyfriend, many things didn't matter. It didn't matter that I was struggling to make a career, it didn't matter if we didn't have plans, it didn't matter if things were boring, it didn't matter whether I dressed up or down. When you have the full assurance of love from someone, you know that no matter what you do, he/she will still love you the most. He/she will still find you beautiful and what you share together will be important. When you have the full assurance of love, people may judge you and say things about you, you have the confidence to not let them affect you because it does not matter.

God loves us... and has given his Son to redeem us, so that we can live life abundantly.

No matter what situation you are in, He has a plan for you.