How far god stretched his love just to reach you             God’s love is so incomprehensive that it can be so misunderstood. Frederick M. Lehman composed these lyrics to help us better understand the height, depth, length, and the breadth of God’s love. “The love of God is greater far than tongue or pen can ever tell; it goes beyond the highest star, and reaches to the lowest hell; The guilty pair, bowed down with care, God gave His Son to win; His erring child He reconciled, and pardoned from his sin. Oh, love of God, how rich and pure! How measureless and strong! It shall forevermore endure—The saints’ and angels’ song.” Those words give us a lasting picture of just how far God stretched his love. Partnering that song with the following Scripture text indicates that if there were only one person left on earth, the Lord would not have changed his mind but would have sent his only Son—who knew no sin, to become sin for us—so that we were made righteous. You can’t be unmade righteous, but the gift of righteousness can remain unrecognized in yours and others’ eyes. In other words, God looks at us through—the perfect sacrifice for sin— Jesus so we would be accepted in the beloved, never once rejected by him. “When we were utterly helpless with no way of escape, Christ came at just the right time and died for us sinners who had no use for him. Even if we were good, we really wouldn't expect anyone to die for us, though, of course, that might be barely possible. But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.” Romans 5:6-8, The Living Bible. When we receive his love, we are no longer recognized as a sinner saved by grace, but we are reclassified as the righteousness of God through Jesus Christ to be heir of God and a joint-heir with Jesus.

 

Read entire January, 2011 Voice of Triumph Newsletter online. VOT2011Jan

Download 3 inspirational bookmarks about your capacity to reproduce harvests

Photo credit: http://lathanmultimedia.phanfare.com/