Thoughts from Me

I find it amazing, how God so often doesn't just reveal something to you, he kind of pounds it in. Of course it's the most gentle pounding any person could ever receive. God has offered something that is so great, that we cannot even begin to understand it. He loved us so much that he sent his son as payment for the sins of every person on this earth. How can God love sinners so much that he would sacrifice his own son, and offer us everything. Think about it, the people that turned from their creator, and have wondered far from him serving so many other idols.

I have been discovering recently, that there is a big difference between knowing about God's love and experiencing God's love. I can know in my head that God loves me, and has forgiven me, but how often do I understand and experience it. Ephesians 3: 16-19 says "I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in you inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge-that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God."

A poem that I read recently expresses God's love in another way. It is "I Am" by Jill Phillips:

Oh gently lay your head

Upon my chest

And I will comfort you like a Mother while you rest.

The tide can change so fast

But I will stay

The same through Past, the same in Future,

Same Today.

Oh weary, tired and worn

Let out your sighs

And drop that heavy load you hold

Cuz Mine is light.

I know you through and through

There's no need to hide.

I want to show you love that is deep and high and wide.

For I am constant.

I am near.

I am peace that shatters your secret fears.

I am holy.

I am wise.

I'm the only One, who knows your heart's desires.

Oh gently lay your head upon My chest

And I will comfort you like a Mother

While you rest.

God's love amazes me and has even more. In the last couple months, he has provided for my needs to come to Croatia and serve him. He has given me a team that loves him dearly, and seeks to serve each other as a family. He gave me years ago, parents who raised me in a home where he was important, and that family is still by my side. He teaches me through his word, and heals all hurts. God is amazing, and yes he loves me. Look at Psalms 139 as well. I praise God for the love he gives, and that I can only begin to grasp. I pray that every person who reads this begins to grasp God's love as well.