God
is enthusiastically fervent in His pursuit of us, using love to capture our
restless heart. His love is Compelling: It heals us, stripping away our
pretense in restoration. His love is Enthralling: It captivates and commands us
to be the same... to be loving. His love is Overwhelming: It is designed to
overwhelm all things, especially fear, shame, and low self esteem. His love is Comforting:
He rejoices over us with singing... lullabies of love, to quiet our worrisome
heart. His love is Faithful: His
faithfulness abounds beyond our faithlessness, He simply cannot deny His love
for us. His love is Compulsive: He passionately seeks those who seek Him -- drawing
them like a human magnet -- allowing them to find Him -- rewarding their
diligence by lavishing pouring His love into their heart. His love is Prodigal...
Wastefully Extravagant: He abundantly and profusely lavishes His love on His
undeserving children. His love is Unconscionable... Irrational: His love exceeds the rational limits of human
reason. His love is Sacrificial... Outrageous and Shockingly Sacrificial: He
gave His Beloved Son for love of a world that hates Him. His love is Consistently
Constantly Constant: When we do good He approves
of us and when we do badly He accepts
us. His love is never affected by our performance. His love is Passionate: A
consuming fire overwhelming every willing heart in its path. His love is
scandalous -- outrageous and shocking to the natural mind -- and never more
than one heartfelt “yes” away...
Love
is not simply God’s choice -- love is His nature -- God is Love. His love is the first fruit of His Spirit in
our life, the fruit from which all the other fruit-virtues flows. All the
virtues of our Father, our Savior and the Holy Spirit – all the virtues of the
Godhead – are carried on the wings of love. God loves us with a perfect love...
an everlasting love... a relentless love... an unquenchable, insatiable,
immeasurable, inexhaustible, irrepressible, irrational, unshakable, 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! He doesn’t love us for what we do
-- thank God -- He loves us for who we are... His children.
AND… AS WE BEHOLD HIM... WE BECOME LIKE HIM...
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