The last 5 or 6 weeks have been spent thinking a much and
preparing for sermons under the title of LOVE WINS. There is so much more that I want to share
from my conversations, from prayers and from my heart that is overflowing with
the magnitude of how big and great God’s love is.
Humanly
speaking we cannot wrap our brains around how much God loves. Furthermore, we cannot explain sufficiently
to anyone how His love works and how we are changed by it. What we can explain is how we have
experienced God and His love. No one can
refute our testimony and our experience.
That is what we need to share with others.
The
older I get, the more I seek God, the more incredible His love grows to me and
the more I realize that I do not understand or grasp how great it really
is. I have shared with you several times
some of the overflow of my study to preach.
Today I share with you some lines from songs that give us a little
picture of our God’s great love!
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.
(from The Love of God by Frederick M. Lehman)
He is jealous for
me,
Loves like a
hurricane, I am a tree,
Bending beneath the
weight of His wind and mercy.
When all of a
sudden,
I am unaware of
these afflictions eclipsed by glory,
And I realize just
how beautiful You are,
And how great Your affections are for
me.
(from How He Loves by
John Mark McMillan)
I love thee because
thou hast first loved me,
and purchased my
pardon on Calvary's tree;
I love thee for
wearing the thorns on thy brow;
if ever I loved thee, my Jesus, 'tis
now.
(from
My Jesus, I Love Thee by William R
Featherstone)
Your love is
amazing, steady and unchanging
Your love is a
mountain, firm beneath my feet
Your love is a
mystery, how You gently lift me
When I am surrounded, Your love carries
me
(from
Hallelujah by Brenton Brown and
Brian Doerksen)
Wonderful so
wonderful is your unfailing love
Your cross is spoken
mercy over me
No eye has seen, no
ear has heard, no heart can fully know
How glorious, how
beautiful you are…
You've opened my
eyes to your wonders anew
Captured my heart
with this love
'Cause nothing on
earth is as beautiful as you
(from Beautiful
One by Chris Tomlin)
That
is only a few songs and a few of the thoughts that are running through my head
and heart. When we grasp God’s love,
things change inside us. Things also
change in the way we deal with others.
It
really is incredible to watch as a person is overcome by God’s love. That person begins to give that love to
others. That love flows freely and
brings all types of freedom.
May
we be known as people who are consumed by and giving our God’s endless and
unfailing love!
Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself
and God our Father, who loved us and by his grace gave us
eternal comfort and a wonderful hope,
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