I know it seems like I keep dwelling on this 'love' thing, but it is what keeps me going. It amazes me. It picks me up when I am down. This love that God has for his children. When I am going through storms and little mole hills, if I just remind myself of the love that God has for me, it keeps my head above water. I listen to a song that says:
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How many times must I prove how much I love you? How many ways must my love for you I show? How many times must I rescue you from trouble for you to know just how much I love you?
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Didn't I wake you up this morning? You were clothed in your right mind and when you walked upon a problem, didn't I step in right on time. When you were weak along life's journey, my angels carried you. So that you would know just how much I love you.
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How many days must I be a fence around you? And how many nights must I wipe your tears away? How many storms must I bring you safely through, so that you would know just how much I love you.
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Didn't I put food upon your table? Show up when the bills were due. And when pain was wracking your body, didn't I bring healing down to you. When you were lost in sin and sorrow, I died just to set you free, so you would know just how much I love you.
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We have love for our children, families, friends, and the list goes on, but none of those even come close to the love that our Heavenly father has for us. I am so thankful for his love. It moves the inner most parts of my soul. He knows me, all of me, the good and the bad and he still loves me. If in this life he never moved for me (and he has) just the fact that God sent his only begotten Son to this sinful world to be a sacrifice for the sins of every person shows LOVE. The fact that Jesus died and then arose from the grave just so we wouldn't have to spend eternity in everlasting torment, that in itself is more than we could ever deserve. HIS MERCY ENDURETH FOREVER!
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Proverbs 10:12
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
1 John 4:7-12
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God: and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
