How deep the Father's love for us...
How vast beyond all measure!
Romans 8:14-17 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did
not receive the
spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are
children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be
glorified with him.
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It's incredible, when you really stop to think about it, the magnitude of God's love for us...
I am reminded of it every time I talk to Him, which consequently sends tears of joy and thankfullness streaming down my face. As I come to realize more and more of His involvement in my life and the incredible outpouring of love for someone as underserving as I, all I can do is fall on my knees and cry out "Abba Father!" He is amazingly good to me...
Imagine this - the Creator and King of the entire universe that we know of and beyond, decided one day that He was going to give you life so that he could adopt you (literally make you his son or daughter) and give you an incredible inheritance as joint-heirs with Christ (see above verse), literally the highest rank a living being could ever achieve (over all the angels and even archangels!). Baffled yet? But wait, there's more! How do you think this whole adoption process is going to take place? Well, that's where His only beloved Son comes into the picture...
Before you were even born, before your ancestors were even born, before this world even existed, God decided that he wanted to share his love, and everything He has ever made, with you. God's plan entailed this - that a Bride would be made for his Son, and a grand ceremony would take place in which He would pass on a great and vast inheritance to the newlyweds. He couldn't choose from the angels because they were merely his creation - heavenly beings created to serve him for all of eternity. No, his Son's bride had to be someone after God's own image, a pure form infused with the very breath and life of God. And that is how man and woman came to be (Gen. 1:27), the beginning of a body that would be raised up to be the perfect Bride. Unfortunately, there were some jealous angels that did not like God's plan, specifically one fallen archangel by the name of Satan (previously Lucifer). Oh he's a sly one, for satan the brilliant mastermind came to the conclusion that the perfect way to steal Christ's bride is to (*gasp*) seduce her! Steal her purity! For then she is no longer the perfect bride; she is stained with sin and can no longer approach the most holy and righteous God... I know, the saddest love story in the world, even sadder because it's very painfully and absolutely true. Satan got what he wanted. Christ's bride was now enslaved to the cunning and deceitful prince of darkness, bound in what seemed to be eternal shackles of sin.
Considering that God is all-knowing, He probably already knew that all of this was going to happen, and yet in his perfect and unfaltering love for his Son and his bride, God had already made the decision to send his only begotten and beloved Son to come to earth and rescue his bride. There was only one way to free her from the shackles; Christ had to come and die so that his bride could receive atonement and once again be united with her heavenly Father. Someone had to pay the price of sin, which is death (Rom. 6:23), and God chose to take that burden upon himself and his Son, Jesus Christ. Listen, before God even made you He knew that this is what He would have to end up doing, and yet He chose to give you a chance at life anyway! Is that incredible or what? Abba Father! Forgive us, for we know not what we do. We cannot even begin to grasp the fullness of your love and devotion as a father towards us! Jesus, you stormed the gates of hell and unclasped us from the claws of satan, only to rise in total and complete victory over sin and darkness! I will shout and proclaim your name for as long as I live (eternally)! You are my perfect Prince!
Everything, He did everything for me, and all I had to do was accept the proposal to once again be Christ's pure and beloved Bride, to repent of my rebellious ways, for making Him wait for so long... to once again be the daughter of the Lord of all creation, to have and live the Life that is of God himself. We were all meant to fill that position, each and every person that walks this earth, but unfortunately many of us still choose sin over Life today. Many are still being seduced and deceived by satan's cunning lies, and yet God is still loving enough to give us a choice, to let us decide for ourselves what we want most... but in the end, He is coming for a pure, blameless Bride; one who has given her life over in preparation for the moment our entire existence is based on -- the moment when the Bride is reunited with her Bridegroom while the heavenly Father smiles on in his undying love for both, a Love that has not failed since the beginning of time, since before we even knew Him...
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Romans 5: 6-11 For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die—but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
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It's incredible, when you really stop to think about it, the magnitude of God's love for us...
I am reminded of it every time I talk to Him, which consequently sends tears of joy and thankfullness streaming down my face. As I come to realize more and more of His involvement in my life and the incredible outpouring of love for someone as underserving as I, all I can do is fall on my knees and cry out "Abba Father!" He is amazingly good to me...
Imagine this - the Creator and King of the entire universe that we know of and beyond, decided one day that He was going to give you life so that he could adopt you (literally make you his son or daughter) and give you an incredible inheritance as joint-heirs with Christ (see above verse), literally the highest rank a living being could ever achieve (over all the angels and even archangels!). Baffled yet? But wait, there's more! How do you think this whole adoption process is going to take place? Well, that's where His only beloved Son comes into the picture...
Before you were even born, before your ancestors were even born, before this world even existed, God decided that he wanted to share his love, and everything He has ever made, with you. God's plan entailed this - that a Bride would be made for his Son, and a grand ceremony would take place in which He would pass on a great and vast inheritance to the newlyweds. He couldn't choose from the angels because they were merely his creation - heavenly beings created to serve him for all of eternity. No, his Son's bride had to be someone after God's own image, a pure form infused with the very breath and life of God. And that is how man and woman came to be (Gen. 1:27), the beginning of a body that would be raised up to be the perfect Bride. Unfortunately, there were some jealous angels that did not like God's plan, specifically one fallen archangel by the name of Satan (previously Lucifer). Oh he's a sly one, for satan the brilliant mastermind came to the conclusion that the perfect way to steal Christ's bride is to (*gasp*) seduce her! Steal her purity! For then she is no longer the perfect bride; she is stained with sin and can no longer approach the most holy and righteous God... I know, the saddest love story in the world, even sadder because it's very painfully and absolutely true. Satan got what he wanted. Christ's bride was now enslaved to the cunning and deceitful prince of darkness, bound in what seemed to be eternal shackles of sin.
Considering that God is all-knowing, He probably already knew that all of this was going to happen, and yet in his perfect and unfaltering love for his Son and his bride, God had already made the decision to send his only begotten and beloved Son to come to earth and rescue his bride. There was only one way to free her from the shackles; Christ had to come and die so that his bride could receive atonement and once again be united with her heavenly Father. Someone had to pay the price of sin, which is death (Rom. 6:23), and God chose to take that burden upon himself and his Son, Jesus Christ. Listen, before God even made you He knew that this is what He would have to end up doing, and yet He chose to give you a chance at life anyway! Is that incredible or what? Abba Father! Forgive us, for we know not what we do. We cannot even begin to grasp the fullness of your love and devotion as a father towards us! Jesus, you stormed the gates of hell and unclasped us from the claws of satan, only to rise in total and complete victory over sin and darkness! I will shout and proclaim your name for as long as I live (eternally)! You are my perfect Prince!
Everything, He did everything for me, and all I had to do was accept the proposal to once again be Christ's pure and beloved Bride, to repent of my rebellious ways, for making Him wait for so long... to once again be the daughter of the Lord of all creation, to have and live the Life that is of God himself. We were all meant to fill that position, each and every person that walks this earth, but unfortunately many of us still choose sin over Life today. Many are still being seduced and deceived by satan's cunning lies, and yet God is still loving enough to give us a choice, to let us decide for ourselves what we want most... but in the end, He is coming for a pure, blameless Bride; one who has given her life over in preparation for the moment our entire existence is based on -- the moment when the Bride is reunited with her Bridegroom while the heavenly Father smiles on in his undying love for both, a Love that has not failed since the beginning of time, since before we even knew Him...
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Romans 5: 6-11 For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die—but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
