God loves me. On a practical level, what does that look like?

[Gordon H.]

You must mean ... "Nobody came up with YOUR answers", ... for there are numerous worthwhile responses to the question posed by the OP in this thread ...

Name them, ones that are practical, applicable to material life, which aren't afforementioned peace, fellowship, and healing? All the fruits of the spirit can be practiced without the spirit, and there are obviously no spiritual gifts today that are supernatural or not taught by effort. Our services to God are enforced by our peace in him, rendered through fellowship, and nothing else. Whether or not God will count them to us as rightous is heavenly, not practical.
Face it: it would not be surprising if we learned that the Holy Spirit left the earth after John died and that it's an angel or two guarding our hearts.

 

[fhansen]

We hear it all the time: God loves you. I struggle to figure out what that looks like on a practical, here-and-now basis? I can identify lots of things that it *doesn't* mean:

• God won't let me get sick
• God will heal me when I do get sick
• God will make me happy
• God won't let me lose my job

And there are many more. Can we have a discussion on what it means, practically, to say that God loves us?

God’s desire for man has always been eternal, uncompromising happiness. In this life we work towards that end with Him as we respond to His calling us, to His grace. Meanwhile there will be many storms here, along with the fair weather, and He’ll give us peace in the middle of the storms in any case. But this life, with the good and the bad, is all temporary, and we trust that our real home, that we’re striving towards, is to be found in the next life, where we’ll meet our Father “face to face”.

God demonstrated all of this in His own life here on earth where He suffered and died terribly in human flesh at the hands of His own creation due to their sin and preference for darkness, demonstrating love and forgiveness in spite of that sin and then triumphing over that death as He showed us the beauty and glory of a new and eternal life by His resurrection.

 

[Macchiato]

That's funny, I lost my job and was jobless for years, 36 years old now, still single and poor, and I'm still happy.

What is your secret?