Happy Valentines Day to you all!! I hope your day is going amazingly well and that it is filled with the love of Christ, and the love that you have for others in your God-given life. Today, I have seem to be thinking of how much God truly loves me...loves all of us. I can't stop thinking about how one man can die for the sake of my life, for the sake that I can even live. Not just live as a person, but in reality, as a sinner. I am a sinner, I will always be a sinner, and yet, knowing that, Jesus still died for me, for all of us. I have also thought of ways that I can re-pay Him, and in all honesty, there is no way that I could nor will ever be able to repay Him for the pain, the abuse, the torture and the bruises, that He bore for me just so I would have life. The only thing that I can do is say "thank you", pray, study His word, and be obedient to Him and do what He asks of me as His daughter.
Right now, as I'm writing this blog, I have my Spotify on and the song "A Little Longer" by Brian and Jenn Johnson, is playing. What a powerful song that is so truthful. The lyrics are so overwhelming to my heartm because they remind me that there is nothing that I can do because I don't have to a single thing,I have to let everything go because nothing even matters, and I just have to stay with God and love Him with my whole heart.
"What can I do for you
What can I bring to you
What kind of song would you like me to sing
'Cause I'll dance a dance for you
Pour out my love to you
What can I do for you beautiful king
'Cause I can't thank you enough
'Cause I can't thank you enough...
Then I hear you saying to me
Listen you, don't have to do a thing
Just simply be with me
and let those things go
'Cause they can wait another minute
Wait, this moment is too sweet
Would you please stay here here with me
And love on me a little longer"
Romans 5:8-9 describes God's love for us by saying " But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, having been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath through Him." To put it this way, that was God's greatest way of saying "I Love You!" That certainty, that truth, that love of Christ, gives a perspective on all aspects of our lives. Such quality of love should not be given to people like us because we are malicious and destructive, but God LOVES US!!
There are five different types of love: Agape, Epithumia, Eros, Storge, and Phileo. God shows us the form of Agape love. Agape love is known as the love of choice, the love of serving with humility, the highest kind of love, the noblest kind of devotion. God chose to go through the torture and pain of being whipped 39 times on His back and all over His body, being spat on by the Roman soldiers, and people like us. The perfect expression of this sacrificial love on earth is the Lord Jesus Christ for He left heaven, came to earth, took on a human form, was spit on and mocked, was crowned with a crown of thorns, nailed to a cross, abused, and had a spear thrust into His side and yet through all this suffering, His agape love did not waver nor dissipate. He loved the church unto death and that is sacrificial love. This love, with the uncomplaining voice of the one who showed us this love, is what gave us life. 1 Corinthians 6:21 says "For you were bought at a price..." therefore meaning, we were bought at the price of God's blood and His sacrifice.
All of these things remind me of how valuable we are, and yet, we still live and drown ourselves in the lies of Satan and sin..but God still loves us. Regardless of who we are, what sin we have done or will make, He still loves us. His love will always remain and will never fail. That love of His, will never run out on us. WOW!!!
THANK YOU GOD FOR SENDING YOUR ONE AND ONLY SON TO DIE FOR US, SO WE COULD LIVE!!
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