"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."

                            -Psalm 116:1-2 

Those of you who have been following me for a while know that one thing I post about quite often is the importance of loving God. I hope that the Lord has used those posts to ignite, or else rekindle, a love for Him in your hearts, because today I want to examine the reasons why we love God.

In this passage of Scripture in Psalm 116, David is speaking of the reasoning behind his own personal love for the Lord. He said that he loved God because He had heard his "voice and...supplications" and had "inclined his ear" unto him. In other words, David loved the Lord because He had shown Himself  to be worthy of love. But what reason did the Lord have to love us? We had never shown ourselves to be worthy of love in any way whatsoever; nor had we answered His prayers, delivered His soul from the hand of the enemy, and prepared for Him a place in heaven, which are all things He has done for us.

Do you see where I am going with this? We love God because He gave us good reason to; yet He loved us even when we were in our sins being anything but lovable. By no means did we deserve His love, yet He poured it out freely upon each one of us. That, my friend, is true love.

"We love him, because he first loved us."

   -I John 4:19

"But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."

                            -Romans 5:8