Love of God

There have been many words used to describe the incredible love that God has for humanity.  I am still challenged to describe the love of  God after all of these many years of preaching the Word of God.  How do you adequately describe the sacrificial love of God that was revealed in the birth and death of Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world?  If I could restart my "preaching career" I would spend more time preaching on the awesome and magnificent love of God.  I would remind people that the love of God is unconditional and the love of God will meet you at your point of need. 

The Apostle Paul gave us some insight to the great doctrine of the love of God in the letter to the church in Ephesus.  Ephesians 3:17-18, "And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together will all saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ." (NIV).  The Spirit wanted us to do our best to "grasp" the width, length, height, and depth of the love of God.  It is truly difficult to get our arms around (grasp) the power and majesty of the love of God.  I can declare today that I am still amazed as I sit in this room and write about the love of God that has been released in my life.  The love of God is not an one time benefit or an one night feeling, no, the love of God is revealed daily in our lives as we walk in the benefits of a relationship with our Savior.  Even non-believers have testified that even when they were walking out of fellowship with Christ they could sense the presence of God's love around them and and toward them.  The family of God must be committed to share that love with a lonely generation that has been engulfed in the spirit of rejection.  The enemy desires for people to perceive their "lack of worth" but the love of God establishes the fact that everyone is very important to God and that God has great love for everyone.  We need to declare that message to the best of our abilities.  We can declare that message because we are the recipients of the inexhaustible supply of the love of God.  Take a moment and lift your voice and thank God that He loves you today.  But also take the next step, share His love with someone toady.  You may never know what an individual is facing today but they need to know the depth with which God loves them at this present moment.