Reply To: Knowing God, Chapters 11 & 12

[Theresa]

God is love, and that is so misused today – even by fellow Christians. We can’t “outlove” God, and we don’t know better how to love others if it contradicts with the truth of His word. And I am so thankful that God can speak nothing but truth. That we can trust and rely on His promises for us. “True Christians are people who acknowledge and live under the word of God. They submit without reserve to the word of God written in the Book of Truth, believing the teaching, trusting the promises, following the commands. Their eyes are upon the God of the Bible as their Father and the Christ of the Bible as their Savior.” That’s the kind of Christian I want to be and continue being until He takes me home. God’s love for me greatly humbles me. Because I know me and I know how inconsistent I can be and how much I fail. “It is staggering that God should love sinners; yet it is true. God loves creatures who have become unlovely and (one would have thought) unlovable. There was nothing whatever in the objects of his love to call it forth; nothing in us could attract or prompt it. Love among persons is awakened in the beloved, but the love of God is free, spontaneous, unevoked, uncaused. God loves people because he has chosen to love them.” It reminds me that God’s love is based on who He is and thankfully not who I am or who I am trying to be. When I choose to trust that love and meditate on that love and remind myself that He chose me as one of His beloved – it brings me to my knees in worship.