As we focus this week on God's radical desire to meet with his people,

today we'll explore his longing for us to know his love.

There's nothing more transformative than encountering the love of God.

It changes everything about us and our lives.

Every one of us needs to be reminded of the depth of his love on a regular basis.

And it's my hope that today we can take some time to do just that.

May you never be the same again as a result of experience

in the unfathomable love of your Heavenly Father. Welcome to the First of Teen

Podcast. Our scripture for today comes from Romans 8 verses 37 through 39.

Paul writes,

knowing all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

For I'm sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers nor things present nor things to come

nor powers nor hide nor depth or anything else in all of creation will be able to

separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus, our Lord.

I've spent so much of my life striving to be loved. The overwhelming need to be loved by

somebody, anybody, is at the heart of most every decision, thought, perspective, and action I make.

We're created with a longing to be loved.

God formed us with an insatiable need for love because he desires to satisfy that longing.

You see, we no longer have to go through life wondering if we're loved.

Our God doesn't hide his heart from us. He never holds back his love.

Romans 5.8 says, but God shows us his love for us, and that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

God demonstrated his love for us on the cross, but the cross also serves as a reminder that God will, now and forever

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