“I love the LORD, because he hath heard my
voice and my supplications…Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore
will I call upon him as long as I live.” Psalms 116:1 – 2
I
love the Lord because He first loved me. “We
love him, because he first loved us.” 1 John 4:19 It sickens me when I
hear preachers proclaiming that “God loves everyone, He loves you” this is a
lie, God hated Esau, what about Pharaoh, and countless others. The lie that God
loves everyone is just that, a lie. However, what a blessing it is that God
does loves those that he does. God’s love is eternal, both never beginning and
forever. If you are saved, then you are most blessed and most loved of God. His
love for us is why we love Him, He gave us the love to love Him with. “Behold, what manner of love the Father hath
bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world
knoweth us not, because it knew him not.” 1 John 3:1 The word “bestowed”
means - to endower of the receiver with love – it is God’s gift to us, as is
grace, mercy, and salvation, among so many other gifts from our gracious God. It
is because of this love that I know my God hears my prayers, and that He will
answer them. God has “inclined his ear
unto me” or listened closely to what I am praying for. “I waited patiently for the LORD; and he
inclined unto me, and heard my cry.” Psalms 40:1 Patiently waiting on
the Lord’s answer is the most difficult of all, but we must remember, God answer
by His own will and in His own time. But dear Saint of God, be assured that God
hears your prayers and in time He will answer them, because He loves you. “Give
ear, O LORD, unto my prayer; and attend to the voice of my supplications…In the
day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt answer me.” Psalms
86:6 – 7 Sometimes our faith grows weak and weary but do not allow it too,
trust the Lord! Remember child of God, He is inclining His ear toward you just
so that He can show you that He does hear you. “I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon…Thou hast heard
my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry…Thou drewest near in
the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.” Lamentations
3:55 – 57 This is why we should have no fear, and always remember “…If God be for us, who can be against us”?
Romans 8:31 Nothing will ever happen to you that God has not allowed, remember
Job, and be Job like in patience. Always remember that God loves you and that
He is there for you, always and in everything. “So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear
what man shall do unto me.” Hebrews 13:6 Not even Satan with the
powers he has can overpower God, therefore, fear only God. It is called faith,
faith that God loves you, hears you, and will supply you with everything you
have need of, and no one can take that away. “… If God be for us, who can be against us”? Romans 8:31 and “Who shall separate us from the love of
Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness,
or peril, or sword?” Romans 8:35 and “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 8:38 – 39 What
a Father we indeed have, and I am gifted the privilege to love Him, because He
loves me.
