Day 7: Believable Love

What if infants could talk

and when you looked into their precious eyes

and said,

"I LOVE YOU"

they came back with

every reason why you shouldn't LOVE them.

It sounds so absurd,

but think about it.

You are that infant.

I am that infant.

And

GOD not only says

I LOVE YOU

but did something to

show HIS LOVE~

"But GOD demonstrates HIS own love for us in this:

While we were still sinners, CHRIST died for us" (Romans 5:8).

And then we think

"BUT GOD"

if you really knew me

you couldn't possible LOVE me,

and then you start to give HIM every reason why HE shouldn't LOVE you.

And GOD responds,

"I do KNOW you

and that is why I LOVE YOU".

HE KNOWS

and HE LOVES YOU anyway.

It really is so hard to comprehend

when you don't feel

LOVABLE.

But do we have to feel LOVABLE

in order to BELIEVE LOVABLE?

LOVE isn't a feeling.

LOVE is three PERSONS~

FATHER

SON

HOLY SPIRIT.

It takes

THREE PERSONS

to show LOVE

to be LOVE

because

you & I & everyone

can not live without

LOVE.

A LOVE that LOVES

when we are acting the most UNLOVABLE

and even when we don't BELIEVE HIS LOVE

because

Perfect behavior doesn't earn perfect LOVE~

"While we were still sinners, CHRIST died for us".

So maybe just maybe

we really are just a bunch of infants

who are so

LOVED

even though

we cry

&

are needy

&

act helpless

because we are

helpless

&

needy

&

do have a

GOD who we can cry out to

when we are

not acting perfectly LOVED

because

we all need

HIS PERFECT LOVE

that never stops

LOVING

even the UNLOVABLE

because

HIS PERFECT LOVE

is not based on our

doing PERFECT

feeling PERFECT

acting PERFECT

Because~

"The LORD is compassionate and merciful,

slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love.

HE will not constantly accuse us,

nor remain angry forever.

HE does not punish us for all our sins;

hE does not deal harshly with us, as we deserve.

For HIS unfailing love toward those who fear HIM

is as great as the height of the heavens above the earth" (Psalm 103:8-11)

So I think I am going to be an infant today.

Do you want to join me

because~

"The LORD is like a FATHER to HIS children,

tender and compassionate to those who fear HIM" (Psalm 103:13).

Aren't you glad GOD doesn't have to keep proving

HIS LOVE

to us

because HE already did~

"While we were still sinners, CHRIST died for us"~

LOVING each one of us with

HIS UNCONDITIONAL GRACE.

So why act like we don't deserve HIS LOVE

and just BELIEVE

"HOW HE LOVES"

(listen to the song below)

because