Oh how he loves us

The last couple weeks I've noticed that love seems to be the subject of most sermons, it's the subject in my devotions, it's the subject of most of the songs I sing. And it all points towards love. God is love. God's love is unconditional. One of my favorite songs is titled, "Oh how he loves us"

He is jealous for me,
Loves like a hurricane, I am a tree,
Bending beneath the weight of his wind and mercy.
When all of a sudden,
I am unaware of these afflictions eclipsed by glory,
And I realize just how beautiful You are,
And how great Your affections are for me.

And oh, how He loves us so,
Oh how He loves us,
How He loves us all

Yeah, He loves us,
Oh! how He loves us,

Oh! how He loves us,
Oh! how He loves.


We are His portion and He is our prize,
Drawn to redemption by the grace in His eyes,
If His grace is an ocean, we are all sinking.
And Heaven meets earth like an unforeseen kiss,
And my heart turns violently inside of my chest,
I don't have time to maintain these regrets,
When I think about, the way.
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We are drowning in His love! At church today the pastor quoted Romans 5:8, God loved us while we were still sinners. I don't have to change my life to make Him love me. I changed me life because He loves me! God doesn't love with conditions. God loves because He can, He chose too.

I'm reading a book called "Crazy love" by Francis Chan in devotions. He talks of God's love and much he loves us.

If your are at all like me it's hard understand the magnitude of God's love. God's love is unlimited, it is unconditional, it is eternal, it's like nothing we can get from any other human being. That's AWESOME!

We all want love and when we love God is should be an natural thing to want to spend time with Him. I want to spend as much time with David, my fiance, as I can to get to know him more all the time. How much greater is God than anyone else. I should want to spend time with Him all the time because I want to get to know Him because He is greater than any human being and wants to be everything to me. He is jealous for my love. (Ex. 20:5). We are commanded to love the God with all out heart, mind and soul (Matt. 22: 37-38). God wants time with us, He wants to get to know us, He wants to hear our struggles, problems, joys and sadness because He loves us.

In Ephesians it tells us that we were created to do good works, which God prepared is to do ahead of time We serve a God who knew us before we were born and promises to be with us not matter what. He longs for our love. All of our existence is not random, and it wasn't an accident. God knew what He was doing when he created us. He made us for a specific purpose. We don't have to worry about not meeting his expectations. He will give us success by His plan not ours. We just need to love Him and know Him well enough to know when and where He wants us to go.


It brings to question, why when we consistantly run away from Him and sin would He still love us? I don't know the answer to this, but without God's mercy we'd have no hope. No matter how good we try to be we still would need punishment for out sins. Because of God's mercy sin is paid for by Jesus, instead of death by you and I.

It is astounding that a God who knows all, is all powerful, merciful and eternal. Jesus didn't have to love us. He wants us. We are a treasure to God. God doesn't need us, He wants us. We need Him, but the sad part is we don't always want Him.

God doesn't force us to love him. He wants what is best for us. He draws us to Him so that we don't have to suffer hell. It may sound like that God is threatening us to love him, like we will go to hell if we don't begin a relationship with him. He calls us to love Him, so that in the end we can't accuse Him of being unloving in the end. He shows us what is best for us, which is to love Him. He gives us a choice to love Him or not.

1 John 4:8-God is love.

Postscript: The song was written by the David Crowder Band most of my writing came from "Crazy Love" by Francis Chan and the Bible. :D