God
holds nothing back in His love for us.
His “agape” love is passionate, self-sacrificing; fully committed and
all consuming, a deep, constant, unchanging love for us. Webster’s unabridged dictionary defines
“passion” as a “powerful, compelling and extravagant emotion”. This is why Christ’s willful sacrifice of
Himself on the cross is called “The Passion of Christ”. This is more than what mere mortals call
love... this is way over the top supernatural love! Another example of the passionate love of God
is seen in the parable miss-titled the “Prodigal Son.” Webster’s defines “Prodigal”
as “lavishly abundant, profuse, and wastefully extravagant”. Now, who is the real prodigal in this
story? Not the boy although he is
wasteful with his resources. But the
father is extravagantly “wasteful” with His love. The father abundantly and profusely lavishes His
love on the undeserving son. The Father
(God) is the prodigal... Our Daddy!
Passionate love is not simply God’s choice... passionate love is His
nature... God is Love. It was God’s greater love for mankind... the world, that
overwhelmed His great love for His only Son, causing Him to make the greatest
love sacrifice creation will ever witness. God’s love is indescribable with the
human tongue and scandalous to the human mind which can neither comprehend nor
duplicate it. He loves us with a perfect
love... an everlasting love... a relentless love... an unquenchable,
insatiable, immeasurable, inexhaustible, irrepressible, irrational, unshakeable,
inescapable, unmovable, constantly constant unchanging
love. There is nothing we can do to make Him love us more, and nothing
we can do to make Him love us less. God
loves us 100%... all the way... all the time, and He never gives up on us...
never... ever! He doesn’t love us for
what we do - thank God - He loves us for who we are... His adopted children. So
on this day of thanksgiving... first and foremost... more than anything else... I am thankful for
the love of God.
GOD’S LOVE GIVES MEANING TO
THANKSGIVING...
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