Over the past month or two I have been thinking about the love of God. I wonder if I'll ever grasp God's love for me? Will I ever realize how much He loves me and how NOTHING will ever be able to change that? Recently when I read these verses -35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
37Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
38For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.-
I realized how I so did NOT get these verses before. For some reason I thought it was talking about our love for God. But it's not. I guess you probably already know that. But I think I'm still in 1st grade learning about His love. There is nothing that I can do that will make God stop loving me and there is nothing I can do that will make God love me more. I think if we as Christians would be able to grasp God's love for us it would answer so many questions in our lives. But for some reason that is so much easier to say that to get a handle on it. Hopefully each time I think about this it is small baby steps in understanding this. I don't think I will understand it without God gently revealing things to me about His love for me.
When I understand God's love for me how will that change the way I respond to
-my husband
-my children
-church leaders
-my neighbor lady in the nursing home that seems to lead a lonely life
-the Mormom lady that wants to meet with me
-the hurting people in our church
-my prayer life
-my Bible reading
-every day situations where I normally didn't notice God
-my over all view of life
How about you? Has God somehow revealed His love for you to you? Or are you like me and know that He loves you, but haven't really 'got it' yet? Or are you merely trying to survive without giving much thought to God's love?
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