Saturday, February 27, 2016

An Everlasting Love...


Day 7:

Piggybacking Romans 8:38-39, we are further reminded of how God’s love is so thorough and passionate, it outlasts time. It is everlasting.

 “The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, ‘Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.’”

                                                             Jeremiah 31:3             

We are that wanted.

That trumps addiction, disorder, compulsion, failure and our very humanity. I say this, not to give excuse to sin; rather, it’s to reassure and remind us that there is hope for the hopeless condition: God and His love.

We underestimate that reality much of the time. We can get negative, distorted tunnel vision, convincing us we are too far gone. We are not.  Wherever and however we presently are, we should feel the freedom to tap into God’s love and what that individual, unique expression of means for each of us.

It starts with God thoughts concerning us. Love is at the center of those thoughts...

“How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.

Psalms 139:17-18

Anyone and anything else telling us otherwise is operating from a place of deception, not truth.

And so, when it comes to God’s “how do I love thee” reality, God wants us to bask, accept and explore just what that means. He is not annoyed when we do so. Rather, He feels the honor and excitement of reaching a closer relationship with Him.

And we are all on that continuum.

 Don’t be discouraged or intimidated with your current circumstance or your past failings. Likewise, don’t be dismayed concerning your future. Yes, with God, there is always more.

“Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us.”

1 Corinthians 2:9

And that’s a good thing.

“But as it is written, ‘Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.’”

Ephesians 3:20

How does God love you? Start counting the ways in your own life right now!

Copyright © 2016 by Sheryle Cruse

 

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