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what overwhelms you?

 


What tends to overwhelm you?  There are a lot of things I can name, but there a couple that stand out to me.


One of those them that completely overwhelms me would be our children and grand children.  My emotions tend to go wild.  Like tears when I see them or when we leave them.  I love my family and these children!


The other one that tends to overwhelm me is how much God loves me.  Much like the apostle John would say in his Gospel, “the disciple whom Jesus loved.”  That was a confession of being totally overwhelmed because of God’s love.


Some ideas make you stop and think more.  You stop, stand in awe and are literally amazed.  It might even be marked by a special time and memory.

 

The love of God is that for me.  To know that no matter what, He loves me.  No matter what I have done or has happened to me, God loves me.  To know that this creator of the universe and the one that has ultimate power loves me, overwhelms me and stops me.

 

Don’t get so used to people and things that you forget how much we need God’s love.  Don’t get so comfortable that you forget that you don’t deserve God’s love but havre it.  Jesus loves you!

 

How have you experienced God’s love?  Think about it.  We have been changed by God’s love. 

 

Ephesians 2:4-5 NIV

But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions-it is by grace you have been saved.

 

Nothing can diminish or change His love for you and me.

 

Isaiah 54:10 NIV

Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed," says the Lord, who has compassion on you.

 

Romans 8:37-39 NIV

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

 

Nothing can separates us from God’s love.  Take some time to think about it, even stop, get quiet and be overwhelmed at how much God loves you!

 

Here is a song that describes this for me… The Love of God!

 

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.

Oh, love of God, how rich and pure!  How measureless and strong! It shall forevermore endure— The saints’ and angels’ song.

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