The Love of God How Rich and Pure How Measureless and Strong
What do I know about the love of God?
- I know that it forgives when I would not (even myself)
- I know it can cleanse
- I know it can heal
- I know I am in desperate need of it every moment of every day
- I know that it knows me and loves me anyway
- I know I will never understand it
- I know it is higher and wider and deeper than anything else in existence
- I know that when I am unlovely He loves me still
- I know that when I am indulging in sin He loves me still
- I know that when I am not loving Him, when I willingly run to the other side and do the works He came to defeat- He loves me still
- I know there is no height I can ascend or depth I can plunge where He will ever cease to love me
- I know that I change from moment to moment and that His love changes never
- I know there are millions and millions who do not know this love that I take so lightly and often times treat as though it were nothing. This love is everything. It restores me- it makes me who I am- who He wants me to be. Without this love I am naught. I am but a passing piece of dust made flesh living and dying for a moment in this great expanse of time. But with this love, I am lifted from meaningless existence into light and life and eternity. I am extended eternal life in order to more fully comprehend and know the One, the Author of such love.
- I know this is the love I ought to own for others- for the brethren, for the lost.
Oh Lord give to me and make this love flow from you through me- not in my words and intentions only but in my feet, my hands, my mouth. Father please make me to decrease. Get rid of the sin and deceit. Expose the hidden ugliness of my soul and renew and rebuild as you see fit. Amen.
C. Turner
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