Sitting at my desk each morning I ask many questions. “Lord, what is it you want me to be doing today?” is usually the first question. Others may be, “Why am I here? What’s the purpose of life? Why won’t this silly computer work right?” But there are other questions that I have asked and heard:

If 7-11 convenience stores are open 24 hours, then why do they have locks on their doors?

Did Adam have a belly button, since he didn’t have a mommy?

If I lost my arm in an accident, would it get to heaven before the rest of me?

Is God big enough that He could create an item that even He couldn’t lift?

These are some of the more interesting questions that I have heard, but then I have heard some very important ones as well:

Why do I exist? Where did I come from? Who created God? Is there a God? How do you know? And one that I have heard recently: “Does God love me even though I have sinned against Him and have walked away from Him?”

There is an answer for these question found in God’s letter of love to us, the Bible. From Genesis we discover that we are created in His image (Gen 1-2). Through the rest of the Bible we discover God loving us so much that He works with us in giving us redemption and salvation.

In John 3:16, He writes, “For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.”

In Romans 5: 6-8 “You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”

So, the answer is a resounding “Yes”, yes, God loves you!

“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”” (John 13:34-35, NIV)

“We love because he first loved us. If anyone says, “I love God,” yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother.” (1 John 4:19-21, NIV)

My question for me and for you today is, “Do you love Him?”