How Great the Father's Love for Us!

I am amazed today by the sheer awesomeness of God.  His sovereignty is more than our meer minds can comprehend...and yet, He allows us to see a glimps of this wonder through the cleft of the rock - He has set erternity in our hearts - we know ALL things about the Father through His Word - it's enough to bring this girl to her knees! 

 

I was thinking this morning, over my dark Starbucks blend, "Why do I write to you?" "What is the purpose?" God reminds me everytime I sit at this computer how much I love each of you - though I may not know all of you on the other side of this screen and though I can't pray for you by name (which somehow makes me love you more) - that is the main reason I write.  Out of love.  So that you may feel my love for you and our Father's love for you.  He loves us so much that He knit us together in our mother's wombs...He took the time and effort to make us just the way He wanted us to be!  So, weather the content of these messages are just what you needed to hear, or just what I needed to hear, they are written solely out of love so that our joy may be complete in knowing the Father's love for us!  More than anything, this love amazes me the most...  The fact that He made me wake up this morning because He was PLEASED to spend the day with me (and does the same for you!)...that His purposes for my life are still in process brings me SUCH joy and awe that I can't help but praise Him!

 

Do these truths do the same for you?

 

Psalm 139 speaks to this love best...Please take the time to read it...ponder it...feel God's love through His word...kneel in awe and praise!

Psalm 139

 ¹ LORD, You have searched me and known me.
² You know when I sit down and when I stand up;
You understand my thoughts from far away.
³ You observe my travels and my rest;
You are aware of all my ways.
⁴ Before a word is on my tongue,
You know all about it, LORD.
⁵ You have encircled me;
You have placed Your hand on me.
⁶ This extraordinary knowledge is beyond me.
It is lofty; I am unable to reach it.
 ⁷ Where can I go to escape Your Spirit?
Where can I flee from Your presence?
⁸ If I go up to heaven, You are there;
if I make my bed in Sheol, You are there.
⁹ If I live at the eastern horizon
or settle at the western limits,
¹⁰ even there Your hand will lead me;
Your right hand will hold on to me.
¹¹ If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me,
and the light around me will be night”—
¹² even the darkness is not dark to You.
The night shines like the day;
darkness and light are alike to You.
 ¹³ For it was You who created my inward parts;
You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
¹⁴ I will praise You
because I have been remarkably and wonderfully made.
Your works are wonderful,
and I know this very well.
¹⁵ My bones were not hidden from You
when I was made in secret,
when I was formed in the depths of the earth.
¹⁶ Your eyes saw me when I was formless;
all my days were written in Your book and planned
before a single one of them began.
 ¹⁷ God, how difficult Your thoughts are
for me to comprehend;
how vast their sum is!
¹⁸ If I counted them,
they would outnumber the grains of sand;
when I wake up, I am still with You.
 ¹⁹ God, if only You would kill the wicked—
you bloodthirsty men, stay away from me—
²⁰ who invoke You deceitfully.
Your enemies swear by You falsely.
²¹ LORD, don’t I hate those who hate You,
and detest those who rebel against You?
²² I hate them with extreme hatred;
I consider them my enemies.

 ²³ Search me, God, and know my heart;
test me and know my concerns.
²⁴ See if there is any offensive way in me;
lead me in the everlasting way.