There are some things that just make you stop and think. Often it is the things that shock you or even the ones that take your breath away. Could be the scenes you come upon or some miracle and moment you experience.
Yet there are some ideas that might make you stop. When you see that thing lived out, come alive or demonstrated. You stop, stand in awe and are literally amazed at that minute. It might even mark a special time and memory in your life.
Such is the love of God for me. To know that no matter what, He loves me. No matter what I did or happened to me, God loves me. To know that this creator of the universe and the one that hold ultimate power loves me, makes me stop in amazement.
Don’t get so used to the idea that you forget how much we need God’s love. Don’t get so comfortable with yourself that you forget that you don’t deserve God’s love. Jesus loves you!
Sunday we continued our series “good God” at The Community Fellowship looking at the love of God. That is one of the most incredible characteristics of God. It literally makes me stop often in amazement.
How have you experienced God’s love? Think about it. I believe that you, like me, 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 diminishes or changes His love for us.
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 separates us from His love. Take some time today to think about, even stop, get quiet and stand amazed at how much God loves you!
Psalm 136:26 NIV
Give thanks to the God of heaven. His love endures forever.
SONG - 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.
- Oh, love of God, how rich and pure!
How measureless and strong!
It shall forevermore endure—
The saints’ and angels’ song.
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.
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