Lord, remember your great love and mercy for me (Psalm 25:6-7)

​It is a basic human desire to be constantly assured that God loves us, that God remembers us, and that God forgets all our sins.  But the Bible teaches us that God is love and He loves us, whether we are good or bad. But as his children it is so sweet and reassuring to hear directly from God that he loves us.

​The psalmist begs God to remember. But we know that God cannot forget his beloved children even for a single instant. At one time, God made this clear to Isaiah "Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you (Isaiah 49;15)! Even before we remember to say to God, "Remember me", God already remember us. Yes, he remembers, in his mercy and his love for us, without limit in time, in number, and in power. But again it is so sweet and reassuring to hear from God that he love us.  But how do we hear God telling us he loves us?

Not by any sound, but by faith. This is the wonderful truth that each time we say to God I love you with sincerity, he says I love you first. So our I love you God is in truth a response to God saying I love you. Each morning when I wake up, I found myself, my soul, saying God I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you. All day long inside me my soul says to God I love you. 

I need to remind myself that I can't say I love God sincerely on my own, but I say I love him after he tells me He loves me. This is the truth. Our loving relationship with God is a constant exchange of loving words. It begins here on earth and continues eternally in heaven. This is a wonderful trust about our loving God.