Hi Rita. When Jesus died, do you understand that He paid a ransom? And that ransom was a price that God considered was your worth to Him. Once we realise the true value of Christs sacrifice... The true cost to Christ and the Father, we should never again doubt His love. Christ is given to every man. Therefore each person gets the whole of Him. The love of God embraces the whole world, but it also singles out each individual. A mother's love is not divided among her children, so that each one receives only one fifth, or one third of her love. Each child is the object of all her affection. How much more so with the God whose live is more perfect than any mother's? (Isaiah 49:15)
Christ is the light of the world. But light is not divided among a crowd of people. If a room full of people be brilliantly lighted, each individual benefits from all the light. Just add much as if he were the only person in the room. So the light of Christ... So the love of God... Is for you.
You can be absolutely sure of your acceptance with God, because the price has already been paid. Our acceptance has forever been settled. Christ has bought us.. Paid the price... Now you are His.
Why does anyone go shopping? Because he wants something. And if he is satisfied that the article he wants is worth the value being demanded, then he will pay the price. That price is the value of the article to the buyer. Now God gave His only Son to die for you... At an infinite loss. Christ did not come to be a sacrifice for just 33 years. Christ is forever, for all eternity, now encumbered by human flesh and bone... Never again to be as He was before the incarnation. But not only so... The price Christ was willing to pay for you was equal to the value of His own life. If Christ had sinned, He would have been forever lost, the human race lost, and the sacrifice been in vain. Yet God considered you worth that risk. Jesus did not consider heaven a place to be desired while you were lost. None is more, or less, favoured by God than you Rita.
Although the priests and rulers mockingly challenged Jesus to step down from the cross, it was because Jesus was thinking of others, thinking of you and me, that He stayed up there. Looking down through the ages to our time He sees a mother spurned by her children and gave His life for her. He sees an abusive father and husband, and loves him, and lays down His life for him. He sees children neglected and abandoned, and thinks to Himself, they need to live for I love them, therefore I shall die. He sees the oppressed and downtrodden throughout all of time and human history and shoulders their cares and burdens and suffers in their stead. He sees dictators and warlords, slaves and masters, laborers, kings, paupers, priests, pimps, drugdealers, businessmen, politicians, tradesmen, sinners, the self-righteous, the proud, the arrogant, the bigot, the wicked and the lost. His love knows no bounds. Whatever colour whatever race, whatever creed, tongue, nation, tribe, gender or age, His love remains constant, unflinching, unending and unconditional.