“Jesus loves me – this I know, for the Bible tells me so.” I remember hearing this hymn a great deal growing up. We would sing it during Sunday school class, and my mom sang it with my sister and me at home. So thankfully, as a child, I was no stranger to the fact that God loved me.

Growing up in a Christian home, attending a Christian school, and being involved in church all my life helped ingrain the truth that “God loves you” in my mind. However, there is a difference between knowing a fact and genuinely experiencing it.

For example, you can know that Niagara Falls exists. You can see pictures or videos of it and hear people’s stories of seeing it in person. Yet, it doesn’t compare to the experience of standing at the viewing platform, looking over the edge, feeling the mist of the rushing water, and taking in Niagara Falls with your own eyes. Mentally knowing and physically experiencing are two different things.

The same can be said when it comes to God’s love. Growing up, I knew that Jesus loved me. I’d been told hundreds of times, read it in the Bible, and truly believed it in my heart. But it wasn’t until I was in my early twenties that I would fully accept and experience the magnitude, power, and overwhelming love Christ had for me.

Yes, my friends… God’s love is tangible, alive, and fully capable of being felt and experienced by us in the here and now. It’s not just a fact or piece of knowledge to be known and believed, tucked away in our brains. It’s an experience and a life-changing revelation we encounter and feel in our hearts.

I completely understand if you've come to think of God’s love more as a fact to be remembered rather than a tangible gift to be experienced and explored. So let’s dive into Scripture together and discover some life-changing revelations about God’s love. I hope these revelations will encourage you to open your hearts to fully experience the Lord’s greatest gift while increasing your faith and expanding your awe of our wonderful God!

1. God’s Love Is Sacrificial

“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.” John 3:16

2. Love Is the Center of Who God Is

“And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.” 1 John 4:16

3. Nothing Can Separate You From God’s Love

“For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 8:38-39

4. God’s Love Is Unconditional

“But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” Romans 5:8

5. God’s Love Is Never-Ending

“Give thanks to the God of heaven. His love endures forever.” Psalm 136:26

6. God’s Love Is Bigger Than We Could Ever Imagine

“And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.” Ephesians 3:17-19

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7. God’s Love Helps and Strengthens Us

“Help me, LORD my God; save me according to your unfailing love.” Psalm 109:26

“O my strength, I will sing praises to You; For God is my stronghold, the God who shows me loving kindness.” Psalm 59:17

8. God’s Love Drives Out Fear

“There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.” 1 John 4:18

9. God’s Love Empowers Us to Love Him and Others

“We love because he first loved us.” 1 John 4:19

“This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.” 1 John 3:16

“Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.” John 14:21

10. God’s Love Creates Unity

“And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.” Colossians 3:14

11. God’s Love Is Better Than Anything We Could Have on This Earth

“Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you.” Psalm 63:3

After reading all these precious truths about God’s love, experiencing his love in all its wonderful glory is all I want to do! So open your heart up to Jesus today, friend, and ask Him to help you experience and understand His love more deeply than ever. He is eager and waiting to share His heart with you.