You've been there. It is when love fills your heart and mind and even your eyes. You are overcome with a sense that God loves you and a desire to show and give that love to others.
Maybe you saw this in a person or in a scene from creation. Where I find that I am overcome the most is with people who need love. For me: it was a little kid in my son's preschool class yesterday, it was a sweet lady at the race track who couldn't walk but was bubbling over with life, it was hearing the words of a grieving wife, it was in the quiet moment of reading my Bible, it was in listening to one of my children breathe the other night while they were sleeping, it was in seeing God give me something that I thought I did not deserve...All of that happened in the last week.
Have we lost the sense of God's love? Have we stopped loving others or worse stopped loving God?
Nehemiah 9:17 (nlt) --- They refused to obey and did not remember the miracles you had done for them. Instead, they became stubborn and appointed a leader to take them back to their slavery in Egypt! But you are a God of forgiveness, gracious and merciful, slow to become angry, and rich in unfailing love. You did not abandon them,
Mercy Me's song " The Love of God" says this:
The love of God is greater far
Than tongue or pen can ever tell
It goes beyond the highest star
And reaches to the lowest hell
The guilty pair, bowed down with care
God gave His Son to win
His erring child He reconciled
And pardoned from his sin
Could we with ink the ocean fill
And were the skies of parchment made
Were every stalk on earth a quill
And every man a scribe by trade
To write the love of God above
Would drain the ocean dry
Nor could the scroll contain the whole
Though stretched from sky to sky
O love of God, how rich and pure!
How measureless and strong!
It shall forevermore endure
The saints' and angels' song
God's love will change us, if we let it. Let it.
Deuteronomy 30:6 (nlt) --- The Lord your God will change your heart and the hearts of all your descendants, so that you will love him with all your heart and soul and so you may live!
Finally, here are some verses I need to hear (and you need, too). I love hearing a friend last night on the phone and someone I didn't even know at the race track say, "God loves you, man!"
Joshua 23:11 (nlt) --- So be very careful to love the Lord your God.
Psalm 36:7 (nlt) --- How precious is your unfailing love, O God! All humanity finds shelter in the shadow of your wings.
1 John 4:10 (nlt) --- This is real love—not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.
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