Thoughts for another day

June 2, 2014.

Today's verse:  Jer. 31:3. “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness.’ (KJV)

(Pls. read the above before you read further.  Thanks)

We may live our entire lives trying to understand the kind of love that God has for us and we’ll never be able to make out even the curve of the ‘a’ of it, leave alone any part of it.  We tend to believe our finiteness makes it impossible to understand God’s love and in a way it’s true, for how can something finite ever understand what is infinite.  Where would one draw the line for the beginning or even assume a mark to note the end, for neither would be correct.  If we try measure from the bottom, we quickly understand it’s immeasurable for it stretches on and on and on; and so it is with the other sides!  And it’s also because we never delve into God’s love to live it or share it.

This morning I was angry on someone for an error and I told the Lord, ‘See, Lord, now don’t defend the person for what she has done for every time she does this irritating me and you always tell me to forgive!’  Then God put this thought in my mind: How many times do you ask me to forgive you for the things you do to irritate Me and I forgive…seventy times seven you know!  I was completely floored when I heard this and boy, the Lord did teach me something.  But moving back to the times the Lord forgives me, I realise it’s because He loves me and Him being perfect love is all the more potent because His mercy is unceasing and fresh every morning even to the end that though I vex Him much, I yet, by His Grace am able to sit and sup with Him.

That’s because of the tremendous love He has for me.  Ah, today’s Word of Scripture is so pleasant to my soul, like rain on parched land when I hear Him say: ‘I have loved you with an everlasting love and drawn you with loving-kindness’ it’s manna for my soul which, though wrinkled by the famine of goodness in me is nourished by the abundance of His manna of love and restoration.  Honestly, were it not for God, where would I be or rather what would I be…but a stone on the earth to be trampled upon by the forces nature would unveil to destroy me.  But because of Him, my Redeemer, I am exalted and reign, even with Him as my Strong Tower and my reason of refuge.