August 15
God is love and He loves us. We are at times blind and/or indifferent to God and to His great love for us. Whether by deliberate decision or by our oblivion, we live our lives without grasping the beautiful and amazing gift that the Lord of Creation has bestowed upon His beloved handiwork.
The fact that our sin has not only blinded us to His love but also separated us from Him is lost upon our sensibilities unless and until we allow the Holy Spirit of the Living Christ to stir within us and bring us into the light of His love and sacrifice for us.
When we allow ourselves to drink in that revelation, it becomes the paramount factor of our lives. When we act upon it, we become born again into the Kingdom of the Lord; we become co-heirs with Jesus of God’s eternal Kingdom and all its treasures. And we drink in the beauty of this incomparable love with wonder and gratitude.
And we bask in the majesty of His Word which affirms the depth and magnitude of His love by asking, “Can a woman forget the child at her breast, that she should lack compassion for the child of her heart?" The answer stills any concern we may have regarding His tender heart, "They may forget, but I will not forget you” Isaiah 49:15.
Surely these words convey His love in a way even the un-surrendered mind can comprehend. Surely they enlighten our understanding of the completeness of the love that took Jesus to the cross.
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