Let me start off by wishing all the mothers out there a very Happy Mother’s Day!! And for those of you like me who don’t have a mother any longer here on Earth, I pray God’s comfort on you on this difficult reminder of that fact. For the women trying to be a mother, I pray that the Lord would open your womb right now In Jesus name we pray!! Amen!
In the last post ★ Back to the Basics – GOD IS… SIGNIFICANT ★, we discussed that when we magnify or place a greater significance on anything or anyone other than God, we set ourselves up for failure and invite the enemy in to wreak havoc in our life. Only God is significant and so we must fix our thoughts on Him! If your thoughts are NOT true, honorable, right, pure, lovely, or admirable than we MUST kick those thoughts to the curb and only “think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.” Today we are going to see that…
It seems only appropriate that we cover this attribute on a day in which we celebrate the first woman in each of our lives that gave us unconditional and the closest example we have to what God’s unconditional love looks like. After all, Genesis 1:27 tells us that
“So God created human beings in His own image. In the image of God He created them; male and female He created them.”
So the love that Mother’s have for their child(ren) is a displaying the attribute that we will unpack today. Like in the post about God being an INTELLIGENT DESIGNER, there are a ton of passages on this attribute! The Bible is a God’s love letter to His people. All throughout the Old and New Testaments we can see the heart of God for His people. Here is just a fraction of passages that I was looking at initially…
Psalm 86:15 (NLT) seems like a great place to start to unpack this today’s focus:
“But you, O Lord, are a God of compassion and mercy, slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love and faithfulness.”
Contrary to what Satan would have you believe, the God of the Old Testament IS NOT distant, judgmental or waiting for us to make a mistake so He can punish us. Instead Lamentations 3:22 (NLT) says:
“The faithful LOVE of the Lord never ends! HIS MERCIES NEVER CEASE.”
And no discussion of God’s love would be complete with mentioning the MOST POPULAR New Testament passage in John 3:16-17 (NLT)…
“For this is how God loved the world: He gave His one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life. God sent His Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him.
Satan though tries to tell us the opposite that God is out to get you and that if you become a Christian that you will have no more joy or fun BUT I can attest that prior to being saved, I was hopeless and very lost indulging in every dark and sinful pleasure that was put before me. I am now 22 years along the path of following Jesus since I trusted Him as Lord and Savior, and it is still the BEST DECISION I ever made! I am living proof of the abundant life that Jesus promised in John 10:10:
What I find amazing is that Jesus came to provide this and also show how much God loved us! Romans 5:8 (NLT)
“But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.”
He willingly died for me and for you so that we could fully experience His love and receive eternal life! What a Loving Father we have!! 1 John 4:16b-17 (NLT) gives further testimony:
“GOD IS
LOVE, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them. And as we live in God, our love grows more perfect. So we will not be afraid on the day of judgment, but we can face him with confidence because we live like Jesus here in this world.”
As I close, I will say it again, from the opening verse of the Old Testament to the final one of the New Testament, EVERY PAGE displays this attribute of Him…“GOD IS LOVE!” And that love is so
“No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Nothing can separate us from the loving arms of God who spare nothing to show us that love. He has sacrificed His Son for us and given the Holy Spirit to live with us! So today will you turn to Him and believe that GOD IS…LOVING?!
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