The Love of God

Praise the Lord that He has a love greater than mine...
I am reminded that I am not sharing about this love enough :( My friend's neighbor took his life last week, leaving behind a wife and children. I have seen them around base. The wife I would see quite a bit, but did I ever once speak to her? No. Many times I would be in line somewhere, and she would be there right next to me...I was more concerned with my latte than with her lost state. It is not too late to share with her, but it is too late for anything to save her husband.

This world has nothing but pain and suffering to offer...I need to be burning with the desire to share of God's immeasurable depth of forgiveness and love... How many times did the Lord put her in my path? Could my sharing with her have made a difference? I am sure of it. It sure opened my eyes to everyone around me...lives just waiting to be impacted by the truth...the Gospel.


"The Love of God" by Frederick Lehman...is my favorite hymn. I love to sing it :) The last verse especially, I can barely hold it together it so touches my heart...

The Love of God

The love of God is greater far

Than tongue or pen can ever tell

It goes beyond the highest star

And reaches to the lowest hell

The guilty pair, bowed down with care

God gave His Son to win

His erring child He reconciled

And pardoned from his sin

O love of God, how rich and pure!

How measureless and strong! It shall forevermore endure

The saints and angels' song

When hoary time shall pass away,

And earthly thrones and kingdoms fall;

When men who here refuse to pray,

On rocks and hills and mountains call;

God's love, so sure, shall still endure, All measureless and strong;

Redeeming grace to Adam's race-

The saints' and angels' song

Chorus

Could we with ink the ocean fill

And were the skies of parchment made,

Were every stalk on earth a quill,

And every man a scribe by trade;

To write the love of God above

Would drain the ocean dry;

Nor could the scroll contain the whole,

Though stretched from sky to sky.

Chorus

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. John 3:16-17
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
2Peter 3:9