Letting Love Win
Christ kept looking to the Father and He kept choosing the Love that He shared and gave to the Father, as His constant motivation to endure what He endured.
When I thought of this today, I was thanking the Father for the Son, the wonderful love of our Saviour, who was able to give everything because He continued to love. It was His love that overcame what He endured for you & I. His love for you, His love for me, His love for all. I know we have all heard this repeatedly but I doubt that I have understood how deep His love truly is.
But within our hearts, Christ lives, Christ lives, not as a doctrine or theology, but as a person, as a person He lives in us. I am coming to understand this more and more, that it is the person of Christ that lives in me. Because of this, I too can overcome my circumstances in the same way. And let Love Win!
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5 comments:
Great thoughts Ruth!!
I am so glad that not only does He live but our dead hearts live again.. reborn to love.. soft instead of heard.. our hearts are good because He lives in us.. Ptl!
Yes , that is so true! He lives in us! Bob, I think we will always be in awe of that - that Christ LIVES in us!
Ruth, do you think we humans actually know and understand the God type of LOVE?
God loves Presindent Elect Obama
God loves Presindent Bush
God loves each of the leaders of Hamas
God loved Sadam Hussein
God loved Hitler
God loves Robert Mugabe
God loves Osama Bin Laden
God loves individuals, organsantions and affiliations are incidental.
I read Mother Theresas life story some month ago and she had a glipmse of Gods love. Our love of others is so clouded but our perseptions of who they are and what they do.
I tremble when I hear people pray "Lord help me to love like you love." Yes, I long to love like Jesus, but everytime I have prayed that prayer, the biggest bully or monster usually crosses my path, and God wants me to love him/her!!!
Will we ever understand Gods "LOVE" here on this earth?
Lennart,
When I was first saved, I used to hear Christians talk about God's love. They said it with such conviction and joy. I did not understand at all the God loved me and I kept asking the Father to show me His love for me on the Cross. I did not understand how it could be because I did not 'feel' loved.
I used to weep repeatedly, I remember it being a daily occurrence. I used to cry because I wanted to understand and believe God loved me (the Bible told me so) but my heart could not understand that I was loved.
That was more than ten years ago. God has slowly and consistently in many ways that only He truly knows, that He loves and cares for me.
We may not fully understand God's love, but He is faithful to continue to shine His love in our hearts, His beloved creation we are. And the more He does so, the more I am becoming convinced that He does love, quote:
"God loves Presindent Elect Obama
God loves Presindent Bush
God loves each of the leaders of Hamas
God loved Sadam Hussein
God loved Hitler
God loves Robert Mugabe
God loves Osama Bin Laden"
It seems I am being convinced that this is true more than anything. That God is love and 'if God so loved us, then we ought to love one another."
"Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins."
1 John 4:10
(this is the scripture that used to make me cry everyday)
It's wonderful to see you. How are you and your wife doing in your journey in Him? I miss your blog.
Peace & love ,
ruth
What I also find amazing about the cross is that "we" were there. We were there because God was there in our place, bearing our sins. We were also there because all of us will respond either as the first thief or as the second.
The words don't make the difference; the faith does. If any who may read this doesn't have that faith, but want it, ask God to give it to you. You won't be the first to cry out, "Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!" (Mark 9:24).
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