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How He Loves…Always

He loves me?

Sometimes experiencing what we call romance in this world leaves us wondering what love truly is. You feel that happy pounding and patter in your chest when he reveals a bouquet of roses and candy. Getting hurt though can peel away the layers of our hearts, like someone plucking the petals from a flower…

Video Pick: How He Loves Us – Kim Walker & Jesus Culture

How He Loves Us – Kim Walker / Jesus Culture

This video and song are a great declaration of God’s love for us. Featuring Kim Walker and the Jesus Culture Band, the song is from their “We Cry Out” CD/DVD, available on jesusculture.com.

“He is jealous for me, Loves like a hurricane, I am a tree,
Bending beneath the weight of his wind and mercy…”

Word: John 5:9-17 – “No Greater Love…”

John 5:9-17

9 “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. 10 If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father’s commands and remain in his love. 11 I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.

12 My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.

“Ever since God gave us the vision, He has been at work. He is getting us into the shape of the goal He has for us, and yet over and over again we try to escape from the Sculptor’s hand in an effort to batter ourselves into the shape of our own goal.” – Oswald Chambers, from “My Utmost for His Highest”

My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers is an awesome devotional for anyone who wants to grow in Christ. Today’s reading is based on Isaiah 35:7 and is about the visions God gives us:

Visions Become Reality
The parched ground shall become a pool . . . — Isaiah 35:7

“We always have a vision of something before it actually becomes real to us. When we realize that the vision is real, but is not yet real in us, Satan comes to us with his temptations, and we are inclined to say that there is no point in even trying to continue. Instead of the vision becoming real to us, we have entered into a valley of humiliation.

Life is not as idle ore,
But iron dug from central gloom,
And battered by the shocks of doom
To shape and use.

God gives us a vision, and then He takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of that vision. It is in the valley that so many of us give up and faint…”

Click here to read today’s full devotional.

This passage really struck my heart, and it is an encouragement that God is molding and shaping us into the vision He’s given. Though our minds and hearts may be parched with wondering when and how it can happen, He is always working at us and even putting us through the furnace, making us into His image.

Check out the devotions daily from “My Utmost for His Highest”; they are really food to the soul, and get you thinking more about how to live our lives to the utmost for God’s highest praise.

Happy Resurrection Day! Let’s remember the reason for this day, and the sacrifice God gave because He of His love for us.

In the spirit of the Easter Season and of the ultimate Sacrifice made for mankind, here’s one of my favorite songs, “To Ever Live Without Me”, sung by Jody McBrayer of the group Avalon.

“It was all about a man, it was all about a cross
It was all about the blood that was shed so I would not be lost
It was all about the love, that was bigger than a life
It was all about a freedom that was given through your sacrifice
Because you would rather die than to ever live without me.”
From “To Ever Live Without Me”, by Jody McBrayer

God’s Love Letter to Us and Inspiration From Kirk Franklin and CeCe Winans

"Love" by Kirk Franklin and CeCe Winans

I love the song above, and how it delves into the meaning of love, and how God loves us. What is love and how does God call us to love? Here are some notes from the Bible about what is more than just a four-letter word:

God shows His love to us all throughout the Bible. The video below called The Father ‘s Love Letter shows us just how much God loves us. It is a love letter from God, created from verses in the Bible, and tells the truth of how much God loves us. I first saw it TBN a few years ago, and a while back when one of my professors had us read a spiritual piece we enjoyed to the class, I shared it with my classmates.

The video was narrated by Roy Lamont and written by Barry Adams. Visit author’s site Fathersloveletter.com for more information.

Prayer: Lord, I love you! Let me learn the true meaning of love and let me bask in Your presence and Love each day. Allow me to focus on You, so You can show me how I am to love others.