Does God Love You and Have a Wonderful Plan For Your Life?

The Problem With Telling Unbelievers God Loves Them and Has a Wonderful Plan for Their Life

Christian, you shouldn't be telling a lost, unrepentant sinner that God loves them and has a wonderful plan for their life. Without Christ, they're not actually in His love, they're under His wrath. And their idea of God's plan for their life is their plan for their life.

So you walk up to what we know about a sinner. He is self-centered, he's autonomous, he wants to do his own thing, he has his own dreams, and he is in love with himself. So you walk up to this man and you say, God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life.

And he goes, what? God loves me? He loves me too! He loves me more than I love me? Now, that sounds impossible. How could anyone have such a great love? And God has a wonderful plan for my life? Oh, I have a wonderful plan for my life too!

And you're telling me that if I accept this Jesus, He will help me with all my wonderful plans and I can have my best life now? Well then, I'll take a God like that. You got two of them?

What You Should Tell an Unbeliever Instead

What you should tell an unbeliever is what the Bible says. Show them their sin according to the Scriptures, that they have broken the law of the Creator of the universe and they stand guilty before a holy God.

Conviction of Sin, Grace, and the Gospel of Jesus Christ

It's only when the Spirit convicts them of their sin that they can know the grace and mercy of God in the sacrifice of His Son. Then they will see the immensity of His love and His wonderful plan through the Gospel of Jesus Christ when we understand the text.