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Saturday, August 02, 2008

Don't You Just Love God?

Sometimes I feel like a sack that has been filled to overflowing as I think on who God is and what He has done for His church. With no merit in ourselves with which to commend ourselves to Him, we are left with no other rational option but to accept that God loves us, not because of how perfect we try to be, but because He has decided, for His own purposes, to redeem us from the sin that, in spite of His love, condemns us. What a magnificent thing to give His own Son for our account, to redeem us, so that His love for us has already overcome our condemnation. To know that we stand in such profound grace to have such mighty promises recorded in scripture, and to know that God is faithful to keep them - it is a thing that we do not have enough life within us to spend in praise of Him.

How magnificent God is, how beyond compare. We love Him because He first loved us.

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posted by Daniel @ 1:10 PM

3 Comments:

At 7:14 PM, August 02, 2008, David said…

Yea, verily!
At 11:58 AM, August 05, 2008, Rose~ said…

Awesome indeed.
At 5:05 PM, August 06, 2008, Marcian said…

we do not have enough life within us to spend in praise of Him.

Amen. Those are the moments I despair to think of anything I can do to repay Him for His goodness to me, and know that the fact that it is unmerited and impossible to repay are what give it such VALUE and make it worthy of such praise!

Amen!!!