Boaz
12-17-2017, 11:09 AM
I slept till 6 this morning , it's kind of a odd experience for me as I usually get up at 4 . I have just been sitting here at the table drinking coffee . Been thinking about Christmas , reading some verse and somehow started thinking about GOD's love .
We have been told GOD loves us most all our lives and we accept it but do we truly understand the depth of that love ? I think we take his love for granted many times as we do with all he gives . We as humans and sinners would not be able to maintain ourselves but for his intervention , this world , this planet spinning in space with all it's delicate systems in place to maintain life . The beginning of Genesis tells how GOD created this world , day and night , he hung the stars , he created dry land and he created life . And he saw that it was good , then he created us . He wanted to have a relationship with us unlike with the beasts of the fields , the birds of the air or anything else in his creation . On the sixth day after it was prepared he created us .
Genesis 1;26-31
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. 28 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
29 And God said, “See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food. 30 Also, to every beast of the earth, to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food”; and it was so. 31 Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
He created a world then he created us then gave us dominion over it . He gave us everything . How much love did that take ?
Of coarse we failed but he sill loved us . There is much verse in our bible telling us that he still loves us , GOD's love is a divine love beyond what we are capable of understanding in our condition .
Jeremiah 31;3
The Lord has appeared of old to me, saying:
“Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love .
Jeremiah 29;11
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.
John 3;16
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
Just a few verses , there are many more in GOD's word left to us . Hope everyone has a great Sunday and coming week knowing he loves us and is always there .
We have been told GOD loves us most all our lives and we accept it but do we truly understand the depth of that love ? I think we take his love for granted many times as we do with all he gives . We as humans and sinners would not be able to maintain ourselves but for his intervention , this world , this planet spinning in space with all it's delicate systems in place to maintain life . The beginning of Genesis tells how GOD created this world , day and night , he hung the stars , he created dry land and he created life . And he saw that it was good , then he created us . He wanted to have a relationship with us unlike with the beasts of the fields , the birds of the air or anything else in his creation . On the sixth day after it was prepared he created us .
Genesis 1;26-31
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. 28 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
29 And God said, “See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food. 30 Also, to every beast of the earth, to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food”; and it was so. 31 Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
He created a world then he created us then gave us dominion over it . He gave us everything . How much love did that take ?
Of coarse we failed but he sill loved us . There is much verse in our bible telling us that he still loves us , GOD's love is a divine love beyond what we are capable of understanding in our condition .
Jeremiah 31;3
The Lord has appeared of old to me, saying:
“Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love .
Jeremiah 29;11
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.
John 3;16
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
Just a few verses , there are many more in GOD's word left to us . Hope everyone has a great Sunday and coming week knowing he loves us and is always there .