This series will give real life examples of where our Creator shows us how to love extravagantly. In like manner we are told to give our lives away, to die to self.
A verse from a song by the Newsboys says:
“Dance like no one is looking
Sing like no one can hear
Love like you’ve never been hurt before
Live like you’ve nothing to fear.”
The example of Jesus of Nazareth, our Creator, is to love extravagantly.
It wasn't so long ago that you were mired in that old stagnant life of sin. You let the world, which doesn't know the first thing about living, tell you how to live. You filled your lungs with polluted unbelief, and then exhaled disobedience. We all did it, all of us doing what we felt like doing, when we felt like doing it, all of us in the same boat. It's a wonder God didn't lose his temper and do away with the whole lot of us. Instead, immense in mercy and with an incredible love, He embraced us. He took our sin-dead lives and made us alive in Christ. He did all this on his own, with no help from us! Then he picked us up and set us down in highest heaven in company with Jesus, our Messiah.” From Paul’s letter to the Ephesian Church - 2:1-6
Hosea 4:14 - "I will not punish your daughters when they turn to prostitution, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery, because the men themselves consort with harlots and sacrifice with shrine prostitutes - a people without understanding will come to ruin!
THIS is love!
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment