Love So Incredible

Today is starting out so great! It's only 10am and I've already gotten a lot of school done...which is rare for me, haha. I have a lunch date with one of my best friends today, I can't wait for that, our fellowship is always so encouraging, and just what I need. Here are some thoughts that were on my mind last night, I thought I would share. Have a beautiful Tuesday!
-taye


Amazing Love, How Can It Be?

Around 11:30 last night, I was sitting on my bed having my quiet time when I started thinking about God's love. I cannot understand it. Why does God love me? How can God love me? I put Him through so much ridiculousness (is that even a word?) and at times just drag Him along in my life without ever giving Him the glory of which He is so worthy. Yet, He does love me. Me, the girl who is constantly running in the opposite direction of His love; me, the girl who is persistently looking elsewhere for satisfaction; me, the girl who cannot open herself up to anyone, not even the God who created me. But He loves me. He loves everyone. The people who get on my nerves and constantly try my patience, He loves them; the people who have used me and hurt me, He loves them; the people who have murdered, and lied, and cheated, and stolen, He loves them. The concept of the divinity of His love is so difficult to wrap my tiny mind around, but that does not lessen His love. Perhaps one of the most incredible verses in the Word about God's love is one with which every Christian is so familiar: John 3:16.
You know how it goes, "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life." The problem is that because this verse is so familiar, we take it for granted. Sure, we can recite it word-for-word, forward and backward, but do we ever take into account what it truly means? What it means for salvation, and what it means for us as the objects of the God of the Universe's affections?
God loved us to the extent that when we failed and sin entered our nature, He did not simply give up hope on us, or say "Oh well, I guess the whole human thing isn't going to work out anymore." No. Instead of just letting us go down a road of destruction after we broke His heart, He devised a plan to save us from the torment and death that we were heading toward. But not only did He save us from death, He went the extra mile to give us the opposite of death; He gave us life, eternal life. But not only eternal life, eternal life in heaven—in His presence.

How great is our God!