A Love beyond measure... The Love of God! Imagine the distance from the earth to the sun. (150 million kilometres) with this scale consider the following. .... *The distance to the nearest star in our galaxy would be a 22 metre high stack of paper. ......... *The diameter of our own galaxy (100,000 light years) would be a scale of 500 kilometre stack. ......... The edge of our known universe would be a 500 million kilometre stack. And that’s just the beginning. Astronomers tell us that our galaxy is a family of more than a billion stars and that there are as many as 100 billon galaxies in the universe. Each of these galaxies may have hundreds of millions of planets like our earth. Unfathomable? Incomprehensible? Beyond understanding? Yes! But something even more vast than the universe is Gods love for us. The love that God gives to us was first shown when he gave His one and only son, so that we too can love and have eternal life. 1 John 4:7-21 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. We love him, because he first loved us. If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also. And We love, because He loved us first If we don’t know God, and don’t have His love, we have nothing (Cor 13:1-13) In a world that cries out to be loved, has God’s love impacted you? Deep down, do you still see Him as a stern authority figure demanding that you get it right? Or have you glimpsed your heavenly Father as He really is, smiling at you with impossible joy One of the most beautiful passages in the Bible is found in Isaiah 43. God is speaking to the ppl of Israel; but they are yours and mine too. Read them and allow them to be God’s words to you. “I have called you by name, you are mine. When you pass through the waters I shall be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flames shall not consume you.” (for God is a great big God, though you can’t see him or hear him, he is always with you. He never takes his eyes off you) “ For I am the Lord your God, the Holy one of Israel, your savior, Because you are precious in my sight, and honoured, and I love you” take a look at that last verse “Because you are precious in my sight, and honoured, and I love you” what more can you want, Even though each one of us will go through a lot in life, we can always remember that God is right beside us, loving us and knowing exactly what we are going through . It was the love of God that allowed him to put his son in our place, to feel our pain, our hurts. And its his love that keeps us going . Gods love really is a love beyond measure And its waiting to flood your life with a grace that can transform you. |
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