Originally published Monday, 31 August 2015.
So many times, I have lost my way without this deep-down heart-felt belief (usually when trials hit me 100-mi/min). Yet, when every morsel of my being, and every part in my heart feels unsure, unsteady and unable, I am starting to tap into God's unbelievable strength. It stands waiting to become my fall back position, resuscitating my life - if only I give it that chance.
Is God's real and valid love your fall back position?
Does it catch you from landing in pits of fear, anxiety and depression?
Does it fly you high to new levels of peace and security?
As we fall into this iron clad truth, the lies explode, and combust.
Lies can't exist amidst the full power of peace.
Knowing this, I want to seek God's love like a gold rush. I want to go after it. It is that valuable. I need it. I almost can't live without it; I certainly can't live joyfully.
May we rush after God's love as much as we rush after plans to fix and change the things that ail us. Perhaps, then we will find the greater gift.
As we park ourselves in God's heart of love- as we sit down in it -
we rest under the safe-covering of his hand.
When the burdens of life smother, sit down in his love.
When the feelings of I can't come at you a mile a minute, sit down in his love.
When the weight of finances crush like a 100-pound gorilla, sit down in his love.
Love that says:
I engraved your name on my hand. Is. 49:16
I know how many hairs are on your head. Mt. 10:30
I love you in an everlasting way. Jer. 31:3
You sinned, I eagerly died for you. Ro. 5:8
I sent my own kid to rescue you. 1 Jo. 4:10
You may fall, but you can't fall from me. Ro. 8:39
His love is best summarized as this: freeing handcuffs that lock you as forever his, not because of what you did, but because of what he did.
His love can't be undone. Not when you remember back, not when you feel like you left God, not when you said that thing, not when you did that thing, not when you accept him at the last minute, not when you feel shame, not when regrets hit you, not when problems surface.
It always is. It always is - for you.
God wants you to have it.
Nothing can thwart it.
It belongs to you.
Life can't hold you back from it.
Trials can't keep you from it.
God defines it.
Yet, He waits for you to receive it.
Keep in God's love.
Keep yourselves in God's love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life. Jude 1:21
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