I have been hearing, seeing and thinking a lot about love in the past few weeks. Naturally it is February so love is hot on most peoples minds but it's a bit different for me right now. It has nothing to do with stuff you can buy at the store or a great Valentines Day. No for me it's God's love I have been thinking about. How huge and ridiculous it his love is. He freely gives his love to anyone that asks for it. ANYONE! When you come as you are, are real and genuine and you asks for God's love in your life you get it. He doesn't say well you need to do this and this and this first. NO, he says come as you are my child and I will perfect you and work in your life. Once we accept God's love we can't do anything to get rid of it. We can't ruin it by being dumb or stupid or saying something off the wall and ticking him off. Once we have him we get to keep him forever. How many people do you know that would still love you after you had strayed from them for the 798th time? I can't think of anyone other than my God. His love is mind-blowing and the more I learn and grow in my relationship with him the more God's love seems incredible amazing and really crazy! There have been many times in my life where I have felt alone, left behind by all, and yet God was there. There have been many times when I have been sinning and being just awful and was there too. When I have been riding God's tidal waves as they came back to back surfing through them, learning and growing, (stolen from a sermon by Kevin Ng, not my own) God was there loving me and pushing me to the next bigger wave. He has always been there. I don't deserve this incredible love but I have it anyway. Is this how you love? I know thinking about it for me has been eye opening. Seeing how God loves and calls us to do the same. It reminds me of the verse " For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God". Well of course we fall short! We're human and he is God. But he loves us anyway. Food for thought as I go through my day. Am I loving like God loves? Am I pleasing him?
from www.d365.org
In you, O Lord, I take refuge; let me never be put to shame. In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me; incline your ear to me and save me. Be to me a rock of refuge, a strong fortress, to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress. Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the grasp of the unjust and cruel. For you, O Lord, are my hope, my trust, O Lord, from my youth. Upon you I have leaned from my birth; it was you who took me from my mother’s womb. My praise is continually of you.
Psalm 71:1-6
