As we spend this week wholeheartedly seeking to know God with all we are, we'll take time today to experience God's love for us.

We all may live with the head knowledge that God loves us, but go long spursive time without actually experiencing God's love.

God's love is most radical and life-changing upon encounter, and it's my hope today you'll press

into him and really feel firsthand how much God truly loves you.

And hope does not put us to shame because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us, Romans 5.5.

There is nothing in this world like experiencing the unconditional love of God. His love extends farther than the width of the skies. His love goes

deeper than the deepest sea. His love is more powerful than a raging fire, and it is closer than the

heartbeat within your chest. Experiencing his love is like becoming new again and again. With each

taste of his affection, the wounds of the past become healed and restored that one no longer regrets pain

but rejoices in the opportunity it gives to experience the love of a good and near Heavenly Father

once again. When we seek to know God, we gain experiences with His love because it's who He is.

1 John 4.8 says,

Anyone who does not love does not know God because God is love.

To know love is to know God because every bit of true love comes from Him.

1 John 416 says, so we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us.

God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in Him.

It's time for you and me to believe the love that God has for us. It's time that we cease

questioning whether we are loved and instead seek the face of our heavenly father that we might

know beyond a shadow of a doubt that he loves us. Almost all of my energy goes towards being loved. I look for love everywhere.

I look for it from my wife, friends, coworkers, acquaintances, and total strangers. I consistently

concern myself with whether I am, moment by moment, loved or not. But Jesus came that we might no longer ask ourselves

that question. For God so loved the world that he gave his only son that whoever believes in him

...