I can't imagine what it would feel like to honestly think that Heavenly Father didn't love me. That is the deepest most basic, purest, simplest part of my testimony. And I think sometimes we take that knowledge for granted in the church. Every Sunday me and all the other young women stand up and say, "We are daughters of our Heavenly Father, who loves us." That basic truth is so important, and vital! Everything in the gospel relates back to it. Oh if I could just implant one simple truth in everyone's brain, it would be that God loves them, absolutely and unconditionally. I know absolutely that God is real and that we are His beloved spirit children, and that He loves us infinitely and eternally and unconditionally. Everything in the gospel comes back to the love of Christ and God. Even if we reject them and work against them, their love remains. Always. It's incredible. I feel so blessed to know this. I need to share this with other people. God is love :)
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." {John 3:16}
"I have loved thee with an everlasting love." {Jer. 31:3}
"Having loved his own... he loveth them until the end." {John 13:1}
"Greater love hath no man than this = that a man lay down his life for his friends." {John 15:13}
"But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." {Rom. 5:8}
"I know that he loveth his children; nevertheless, I do not know the meaning of all things." {1 Ne. 11:17}
"The love of God, which sheddeth itself abroad in the hearts of the children of men... is the most desirable above all things... and the most joyous to the soul." {1 Ne. 11:22-23}
"If ye love me, keep my commandments." {John 14:15}
"Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my bretheren, ye have done it unto me." {Matt. 25:40}
"He doeth not anything save it be for the benefit of the world; for he loveth the world, even that he layeth down his own life that he may draw all men unto him. Wherefore, he commandeth none that they shall not partake of his salvation." {2 Ne. 26:24}
