A few days before Christmas I went home and we had caroling out reaches out of which I attended two. I noticed how much we tried to draw people to our God by mentioning what we could receive through His blessings. Which caused me to wonder: would man just draw near to God if they just knew that Jesus died on the cross for them, so that their sins are forgiven and they could be right with God?
You know we are often awestruck by the fact that we are forgiven and we come to God for peace for love and for acceptance. But many times some storm comes in or when we or our loved ones are forced through some valley, man questions the faithfulness of God, the love of God, the omnipotence of God, and some times the existence of God. Sometimes it doesn't even take a circumstance to stumble. Just the words or actions from another person could do.
How is it that the unthinkable incomparable love on the cross is so easily compromised by the lesser things on this earth? How is it that the heart of man is so fickle and faithless? How is it that a God so great so pure so powerful would put on Himself the limits of man to live among men, to die for men, to prove Himself to men, to live in men, and to suffer doubt and demands from the brings He loved and created?
God's love is clearly more than the sacrificial love of death. It is a living love renewed each day, to cast away our doubts, to prove His faithfulness, His patience, and He moulds us daily till we become more like Him every day. It did not end on the cross. That is just a new beginning.
As I quote a stanza from one of JM's favorite songs I marvel and the magnificent, endless love of God, proved not just by the love on the cross, but it is a love that is displayed and renewed each and every day.
Could we with ink the oceans fill
And were the skies of parchment made
Were every stalk in earth a quill
And every man a scribe by trade
To write the love of God above
Would drain the oceans dry
Not could the scroll contain the whole
Though stretched from sky to sky
How blessed are we who are loved so amazingly.
