Is it even possible?
Is it even possible to grasp how wide and deep and high and great the Love of God is for us? Is our human minds and limited understanding capable of comprehending His love? And his faithfulness... A God who is faithful even when we are faithless? A God who never leaves or forsakes us... A God who loves us that much that he would never ever let us go? Is it even possible...?
After we repeatedly turn aside. Though we regularly deny his power. Though we are weak and fallen and broken. He says... I want you.
He wants me!! He wants you!! Though we bring him sacrifice after sacrifice to ease our guilty conscience, he just asks for our hearts... He wants our hearts. But in shame we hide our hearts away, in fear that he might see how truly ugly and dicrepid they are... Is it even possible to understand why a God who knows all and sees all... a God who knows the sad estate of our hearts...would still want our hearts? And yet, He does want all of our hearts. The good, the bad, the ugly because He sees Hope...
Where we see failure, He sees hope. Where we see tarnish, he sees gold. He looks past who we are and into who we can be. And in Him, nothing is impossible.
Oh, I pray that we might grasp it... That we may taste and see... That somehow, God would reveal just a glimpse of himself to us so that we might grab onto him in hope.
"Why are you downcast oh my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God. For I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God." (Ps 42:11)
"For Great is the Lord, and most worthy of praise. He is to be feared above all gods. For all gods of the nations are idols, but the Lord made the heavens!" (Ps 96:4)
"Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth! Worship him with gladness! Come before him with Joyful songs! Know that the Lord is God. It is He who made us, and WE ARE HIS. We are his people, the sheep of his pasture. Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise! Give thanks to Him and praise his name! For the Lord is Good! and His love endures forever. His faithfulness continues through all generations!!" (Ps 100)
After we repeatedly turn aside. Though we regularly deny his power. Though we are weak and fallen and broken. He says... I want you.
He wants me!! He wants you!! Though we bring him sacrifice after sacrifice to ease our guilty conscience, he just asks for our hearts... He wants our hearts. But in shame we hide our hearts away, in fear that he might see how truly ugly and dicrepid they are... Is it even possible to understand why a God who knows all and sees all... a God who knows the sad estate of our hearts...would still want our hearts? And yet, He does want all of our hearts. The good, the bad, the ugly because He sees Hope...
Where we see failure, He sees hope. Where we see tarnish, he sees gold. He looks past who we are and into who we can be. And in Him, nothing is impossible.
Oh, I pray that we might grasp it... That we may taste and see... That somehow, God would reveal just a glimpse of himself to us so that we might grab onto him in hope.
"Why are you downcast oh my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God. For I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God." (Ps 42:11)
"For Great is the Lord, and most worthy of praise. He is to be feared above all gods. For all gods of the nations are idols, but the Lord made the heavens!" (Ps 96:4)
"Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth! Worship him with gladness! Come before him with Joyful songs! Know that the Lord is God. It is He who made us, and WE ARE HIS. We are his people, the sheep of his pasture. Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise! Give thanks to Him and praise his name! For the Lord is Good! and His love endures forever. His faithfulness continues through all generations!!" (Ps 100)
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