God's Incredible Love!

For the past few months, Papa has been leading me to discover His incredible love for us, His Children! Let me share a verse with you that He has led me to time and again!

Romans 5:8 "But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us."

Another word for "demonstrates" is "illustrates". Our Father has illustrated His love, as an illustrated sermon toward us! "While we were yet sinners", what do sinners do? They sin! So, while we were sinning, because that is what sinners do, Christ died for us! What does that mean? His death was to reconcile us to the Father! Reconcile means to reconnect in such a way as if nothing happened to separate us!

Paul says in 2 Corinthians 5:19 "that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation." That means He forgave us our sins, and gave us the job of spreading the word that they are forgiven!

Look at it this way. In the beginning, God created us to have a relationship with Him. Adam's sin, and ours, separates us from Him. But He loves us so much, as John 3:16 says, He gave His one and only Son! Ok, so think about this! He decided not to scrap us, throw us away, destroy us, but instead, He did as much as possible, gave His VERY best to remove everything that stands in the way of us having a relationship with Him!

Here's another set of verses: Romans 8:35 "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? [Shall] tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?"
Romans 8:38, "For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

There is one thing that can separate us from His love. That would be our decision to be separated. That is the only thing!

So, decide for yourself, be separated from Him who created you? Or be re-connected? Do you think you are already connected? Please think about it! If anything keeps you from Him, you are not connected!

2 Corinthians 5:20 "Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore [you] on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God!"