Oh How I Love Thee! (#8)

God looks upon us -- “How do I love you? Let me help you count the ways.”

I remember a song several years ago with the refrain “If you can’t love the one you love, love the one you’re with.” I don’t believe in that philosophy, but many in this world seem to have accepted it as the norm for their lives. Though miles may separate us from those we love, does that cause us to cease to love? Not if the love is genuine. Another phrase that has been around for a long time is: “Absence makes the heart grow fonder.” When the love is true; when the love is genuine; when the love is grounded; when the love is pure; what is there that can separate us from that love.

Oh, how Divine love has been expressed to us. Oh, how powerful that love is. Note the great encouragement noted by Paul in his letter to the church at Rome.

“(35) Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? … (38) For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, (39) nor height nor depth, NOR ANYTHING ELSE in all creation, WILL BE ABLE TO SEPARATE US FROM THE LOVE OF GOD IN CHRIST JESUS OUR LORD.”( Romans 8:35, 38-39 ESV)

Does that thought make you sit up and say, “WOW”? Do you acknowledge that is the love God has for you? Do you sense the power in that love? Do you feel the cords of that love binding you securely in your relationship to Him? That is the way God want’s us to know His love for us. WOW! What a love!

Have a great day knowing the SECURITY of GOD’S LOVE!
Carl

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[This focus was originally sent 07/20/1999 (Edited some with passage changed to ESV)]

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