God's Love is real.

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If we are not yet truly convinced of God's love for us, we can be today; God's love is limitless.

Are you ministers of Christ? (I speak as if I were mad.) I have been more; in labors more abundant; in stripes without number; in imprisonments more; in danger of death often. 24 From the Jews five times I received forty lashes less one. 25 Three times I was beaten with rods; once I was stoned; three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I was like a shipwrecked man on the high seas; 26 often on the highways; in dangers from rivers, dangers from robbers, dangers from my own people, dangers from Gentiles, dangers in the city, dangers in the wilderness, dangers at sea, dangers among false brethren; 27 In labor and hardship, in sleeplessness often, in hunger and thirst, in fasting often, in cold and nakedness; 28 And besides other things, what is heaped upon me daily, the anxiety for all the churches. 29 Who is sick, and I am not sick? Who is stumbled, and I am not indignant?
30 If I must boast, I will boast about my weakness. 31 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed forever, knows that I do not lie. 32 In Damascus, the governor of the province of King Aretas was guarding the city of the Damascenes to arrest me. 33 And I was let down in a basket from the wall through a window, and I escaped from their hands. 2 Corinthians 11:23-33

Is there anything that prevents you from feeling God's love because it prevents you from thinking that God loves you without limits? Perhaps there is a sin from your past or some idea that makes you think or feel that God's love is conditional or limited, that you don't deserve it, or that it's not for you because of what you've done.

What can we do to change our perspective on this? We must always know that the Word of God is what can transform our minds and our vision of who God is for us. In this case, we can look at the apostle Paul, who persecuted Christians to death before seeing Jesus and converting to the Lord. Imagine a persecutor from the church who was transformed from one moment to the next, and from that moment on, he began to understand that God loved him. Doesn't this help you understand that God also loves you unconditionally?

Whatever is troubling you today, if we look at the life of the apostle Paul, we will surely find something we can identify with. Yet, he continued to spread a word, a message of salvation and hope everywhere: God sent his Son to die on the cross for love of us.

For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

John 3:16

Even when our situation seems the most unjust, the most painful, or the most shameful, the fact that this is happening to us is nothing like God having stopped loving us. There are times when we face difficulties as a consequence of our decisions, and this in turn allows our hopes to be refined and for us to be molded into his image and likeness. At other times, the Lord allows us to be shaken. In any case, God always accepted everything absolutely only for our good, according to His purpose for each of us.

So here's the key for us to accept the truth of God's unconditional love and focus on that instead of the trials and struggles we're going through, knowing that everything works out only for our good.