Isn’t this Love?

It’s been a while not just since I wrote but also since I had a great time of worship alone in the presence of God. Time has been moving so fast and there has been so much (not a good excuse) that I could only afford to spare very few minute to pray and rush through the word every day for the last couple of days. However, I am grateful that today have found time to just be with Him and enjoy it. It’s during this time today that I realized how great the love of God is to me. 

 It’s funny how ignorant I am of the fact that when I am so busy and having so much to do, that is when I need greater strength. Further, I often forget that this strength can only come from God and great refreshment in these seasons comes from spending time with God. However, I just realized how much God has loved me so much such that even when I still spare so little time for Him, in these moments He still comes through for me and gives me so much strength that I don’t break down. Recently I really suffered a great blow. I had plans that I had made and even committed to prayer. However, they failed and it seemed like I did have a way out, that all hope was lost. I got so discouraged but He came through, encouraged me and saw me through and further gave me hope for the future. He did not allow me to grow weary but He gave me strength, He carried me on His shoulders. Isn’t that love?

How about how He loves me even deeper when I am away from Him? When I feel like it’s too much of a burden to just sit with Him for an hour or two while reading His word, meditating and in worship? How about when I am so lost, submitting to the selfish desires of my flesh (Galatians 19-21)? Yet He reaches out to me and speaks to my conscious and helps me to resist falling or when after I fall/submit to the flesh He reaches out to me and leads me to repentance and still forgives me? Isn’t that love?

 He sacrificed His son for my sake, I who is just like a flower, here today and withered and then gone in a short while (Psalms 103:15-16), yet He saw it worthy to give His son as an example for me to follow and then had him die on the cross for me to be free. He then went ahead to raise him from the dead to show me that I have victory through him (1 Corinthians 15:56-57). Isn’t that love? That when I am lost, He chooses to put aside others, and come looking for me, yet I am lost to His enemy-sin-, and then goes ahead to throw a celebration for me after I have been lost out there and wasted what Had for me (Luke 16). Isn’t that love?

How about this, when He says that He doesn’t chance is word (Numbers 23:19) yet when I sin and He gets angry and when the consequences of my sin is death He chooses to change/forgive me and walk with me even as I suffer the consequences giving me the strength through it all after He has led me to repenting (I am reminded of the story of the Israelites through the desert in Exodus, Numbers and Deuteronomy, most specifically Exodus 32). Yet He still keeps His promises to me, even after I sin and I am so far away, that He can still fulfill them in His faithfulness. Isn’t that love? When He calls me to show my love for Him by obeying His commands (John 14:15) and further gives me the strength and grace (Titus 2:11-14) to obey. Isn’t that love? How I pray that I can love like he does, like I can just be there with Him like He is always there with me.

God bless you and keep growing in Him.