Jesus Culture's newest album, Unstoppable Love features a song named after its title. One line stands out foremost in my mind...."All the while You're shouting, My Love You're Worth It All". God is so unfathomable! His love is so indescribable. His majesty is so powerful. His glory is so unavoidable. God's Word, from cover to cover, describes in grave detail His amazing love for us. Sometimes we face situations, trials and challenges where we feel trapped into responding negatively. The outcomes are nothing we are proud of. We feel broken on the inside but walk around with a puffed up attitude as a way of telling the world that we are justified in the things we did. However, God's love for us covers our multitude of sins, washing us and cleansing us and wrapping us in His undying, unending love. Some of us have been through things that leave us feeling worthless, unloved, ridiculed, ashamed, timid, and rejected. I myself have gone through several situations where I have been treated with disdain and contempt. I sank so low into depression and wallowed in self pity and even self hate. But, it was then that I felt the arms of God wrap me in His embrace, shielding me from it all. It was in those circumstances I recognized that God's love was nothing compared to our love. His love has no limits, and goes so deep that we could never be capable of loving like that because we are not love itself.
God created us and He sees the worth of His creation. He is satisfied with us and doesn't blame us for the things we have done, but reaches out with love to bring us back to that place of originality. While we are there finding faults in ourselves, God is there shouting out that we are worth all His love, all His attention, all His thoughts, all His time, all His affection, all His blessing... And it was because of all this love He has for us that He died on the cross for us..
God is real. He is alive. He hears and He sees. He is ready to help. Most of all, He wants us to know that above all else, He LOVES us.
We are the apple of God's eye. It doesn't matter how many times we fail or how often we are on our faces before Him begging for forgiveness. Jesus remains ever in love with us and is always working things out for us. He sees the enemy and knows the plan of attack against our lives. So, He stands as a mighty centurion in battle ready to wage war on His inferior opponents. He is fighting for us, even when we turn around and realize that there is no one there for us. When we look in the mirror and see nothing, worthlessness, and insignificance, He is looking down and seeing a person of value, worth and significance. He thinks about us all day long, and continues those thoughts while we sleep. He is working the trials and circumstances out on our behalf. Let us then not put our trust in man, but look up towards the hill where our help comes from. Let us look up and see that we can hope in and trust the God who continues to stand with us in everything we do. We may not always make the right decisions, but it doesn't mean He will leave us because of our choices. He loves us too much to let our actions create a dividing space between us. Thank You Jesus.
