Love Undeniable yet so Inconceivable!

                                                                   1 John 4:10 

 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

We cannot even begin to understand love apart from God's gracious dealings with sinners. To stand back and look at the immensity of God's love in Christ we have to shout Awesome! We see tokens of love all around us but all of these are faint in comparison to the love which drove Jesus to hang upon the cross! My heart is overwhelmed just to think about it. This verse makes my heart want to do great things Jesus! He's worthy and I'm thankful that my eyes and heart once again had the opportunity to thank much upon the deep love of Jesus this morning. May this truth mark all that we do today and live unfettered for His glory and for His fame!

Spurgeon noted: " There was not a man on earth who loved God. There was none that did good—no, not one. And yet, the Lord fixed the eye of His electing love upon sinners in whom there was no thought of loving Him! There is no more love to God in an un-renewed heart than there is of life within a piece of granite. No more of love to God is there within the soul that is unsaved than there is of fire within the depths of the ocean’s waves! And here, indeed, is the wonder, that when we had no love to God, He should have loved us! This is a mild way of expressing it, for instead of loving God, my Brothers and Sisters, you and I withheld from Him the poorest tribute of homage. We were careless and indifferent. Days and weeks passed over our heads in which we hardly thought of God. If there had not been any God, it would not have made much difference to us as to our thoughts, habits and conversation. God was not in all our thoughts and, perhaps, if somebody could have informed us that God was dead, we would have thought it a fine piece of news, for then we could live as we liked and need not be under any fear of being judged by Him! Instead of loving God—though now we rejoice that He loves us—we rebelled against Him. Which of His Laws have we not broken? We cannot put our finger upon one command without being compelled to acknowledge that we have violated its claims, or come short of its demands."

In the fight with you to glory in none other but Jesus alone!
Made Willing In The Day Of His Power!
Casey Kirkman