And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.1 John 4:16
I woke up today thankful that I don’t have to rely on my faith in God, but rather I can rely on the love God has for me. Don’t get me wrong, I love faith. I’m so thankful for faith. Faith allows me to be confident of who God is, and who I am in Him. Faith is such a wonderful gift, but I’m not relying on my faith, I’m relying on God’s love for me.
Oh how He loves us.
I don’t want to ever try to measure my faith this year, because perhaps I might convince myself I don’t have enough of it. This year I’m going to try to measure God’s love for me, because I’m convinced that His love will never be lacking.
When I try to measure God’s love for me, I see the God who did not spare His only Son, but gave him up freely for my sake, so that I might also be a son of God. I see the God who carried all my sins, my pains, my faults and my fears upon a cross, so that I could be forgiven, washed, made pure and then carried in His loving embrace for the rest of time. I see a God who has promised me “I will never leave you, I will never forsake you”.
I see the God who genuinely cares for me; who knows me; who enjoys my company; who walks with me. I see the God of all comfort, all hope and all grace. I see the God who is truly limitless in his love for both me and you.
We know who God is. As His children, we have the amazing blessing of starting this new year relying on the love He has for us. How can it not be a good year when this is our foundation!
Oh how he loves us!
God showed His love for us by dying on the cross for our sins. Why can't we just let that be enough? Why do we have such trouble with His grace? The measure of God's love came at the cross and He gives us access to that love by faith. What could be better!
Nothing could be better Lisa
You know I've come to realise I can't force other believers to live in, rest in, and accept God's grace in all it's fullness. The only thing I can do is accept it myself, and to whatever degree God shines through me then may it all be to His glory.
Rather than saying "Why can’t we just let that be enough? Why do we have such trouble with His grace?" Just start proclaiming the truth as you see it "I allow the finished work of the cross to be enough! I have no trouble with His grace!"
I'm with you
His grace is all sufficent
Amen! We turn everything into a work…even faith.
Amen Garry, let's lift Him up.
His grace is sufficent for all things. Truly resting in Christ is simply relying on his love towards us.