Have You Been Loved by God? Pastor Doug on Psalm 103

There is a question Pastor Doug Lattimore kept returning to one recent Sunday at Solo Faith Church: have you ever been loved? Not by a parent, a partner, or a friend — but by God. His message from Psalm 103 turned a familiar idea on its head. We spend a lot of energy asking whether we have been loyal enough to God. This message asked the opposite question: how loyal has God been to us?

Most of us talk about faith in terms of what we owe. Psalm 103 flips the order. Before the psalm ever asks anything of us, it describes what God has already done: He forgives all our sins, heals our diseases, redeems our lives from the pit, and crowns us with love and compassion. That, Pastor Doug said, is God's loyalty to us. A true leader does not simply give orders and delegate — he sets the example first.

The psalm's most quoted promise is also its most personal: as far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us. God does not treat us as our sins deserve. As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who honor Him — and that compassion stretches from everlasting to everlasting, even to our children's children. It is a message for anyone who has wondered whether they have ever truly been loved.

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Originally published on the Solo Faith Church blog: https://www.solofaith.org/post/have-you-been-loved-by-god-pastor-doug-on...

Community Support Note: This story is part of Solo Faith Church's community journalism initiative to uplift Concord neighbors and share the work being done across Cabarrus County. The information in this post was drawn from a transcript of Pastor Doug Lattimore's sermon, shared directly with Solo Faith Church.