God’s Love

If you are at home and you’re feeling kind of blue,

Not knowing what to think, not knowing what to do.

If you’re feeling kind of lonely and your friends are very few.

Just think about the Lord and Him smiling down on you.

He loves you with a compassionate love and His love for you is true

So lay all your burdens at His feet for He loves and cares for you.

I was just sitting here thinking what to write about and after praying for the Lord’s help, this little poem came to my mind.  I hope it will be an encouragement to everyone that reads it.

When I think about God’s love, I can understand it a little bit better now.  I had a struggle with it and was very miserable for a long period of time. Then with the help of my wife, a man named Dan Comfort and the way God is using them, I have a better understanding of God’s love.  I don’t think we will ever fully understand God’s love but we can be encouraged knowing that He loves us unconditionally.  That means that God loves us regardless of our actions or what we accomplish or what we say or any works that we have done or what we look like, it is because God is Love. Knowing all this, it is still hard for us to fully understand the love that the Lord has for us.

Paul prayed this prayer for the Ephesian church in the book of Ephesians 3: 17 – 19, “And I pray that Christ will be more and more at home in your hearts as you trust in Him.  May your roots go down deep into the soil of God’s marvelous love.  And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep His love really is.  May you experience the love of Christ, though it is so great you will never fully understand it.  Then you will be filled with the fullness of life and power that comes from God.”  Like I said I don’t think we can ever fully understand the love that God has for us.

What I do understand is that God laid aside His deity and came to earth as a babe born to a Jewish girl that was a virgin, was conceived by the Holy Spirit, grew up to be a man called Jesus, who was without sin, did many great miracles, loved and taught multitudes of people, then gave His life for a ransom for all mankind, even for His enemies.  He wasn’t willing that any be lost but that all would come to repentance, shedding His own blood, a man that had no sin, but was willing to take the sins of all mankind on His shoulders.  Remember this, the Bible says in Hebrews 9:22, “And according to the law almost all things are purified with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no remission.” (forgiveness)  He was willing to lay down His life for us so that we could have a relationship with Him.  Praise His holy name!!  The more we realize how much He loves us the more we should love and appreciate Him.  

Something to think about.  God bless and have a great day.