Our scripture today is Psalm 18:19; it’s the second part of that verse. “He rescued me because He delighted in me” (NASB). “He delivered me because He delighted in me” (NKJV).

God is our salvation because He loves us. Why does He love us? He loved us when we were enemies. He doesn’t love us because of how good we are. He doesn’t love us because of what we’ve done for Him. He loves us. Jesus died for us. He showed us the greatest love because He loved us.

It’s not about us. It’s about Him and who He is. He is love. It is unfailing, steadfast, and a forever love, and He will always love you with that love. All God asks of us is to know He is love. All He asks of us is to know Him. To get to know Him is to know He is love and His love for you. All we’re asked to do is know Him and His love.

In Ephesians 3, Paul’s prayer for the church is to know the height or the length of the love of Christ: to know the love of Christ, which is beyond knowledge, passes understanding, that we may be filled with all the fullness of God. We have to know His love to receive His love. It’s all a gift from Him. It’s not because of our fasting, prayer, and good works that we get to know Him and get to know His love, and receive His love in our hearts poured out by the Holy Spirit (Romans 5:5). It’s because He loved us. All we have to do is just want to know Him. We have to desire Him and want to know Him. We have to know that: I am nothing; I have no good thing in me; I have nothing to offer, this wretched self that I am; I just want to get away from me, and I want to know You. If you don’t see yourself as a wretch, you haven’t seen yourself yet. Ask God to show you who you are; it’s not pretty.

Instead, get to know Him. He’s beautiful. King David said, “There’s one thing I want, just to be in your house, to gaze upon your beauty and inquire in your tabernacle.” He just wanted to be with Him. That’s all you need. Just want to be with Him. Lord, I want to get to know You. I want to know how much You love me. I want to know Your love, so I can receive and give Your love.

That’s how we walk in peace and joy—rest. All those things we’re supposed to have all the time. It’s just by knowing His love, just by knowing who He is, just by knowing Him. It’s all a gift from Him. Just ask Him to show Himself. Teach me who You are. He’ll use prayer. He’ll use scripture; that’s His word to us. Read it, but ask Him to teach you from it. Ask Him to show Himself from the Word. He’ll use fasting. He’ll use trials and tribulations. It’s all His good work working in you to know Him and His love for you so you can be saved. God loves us, so He rescued us. He rescues us because He delights in us.

Jesus died because He loved us. That doesn’t change. We’re the ones who can change. He doesn’t change. We want His life in us so we can be steadfast like that, so we’re not going to be moved. We’ll never move away from Him because He keeps us. We’ve asked Him to keep us. I want to be Yours. Keep me close.

Know how much He loves you.