Remarkable: Our Lives are Held by the Hands of God
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Today, I have two messages on my heart. The first, as I launch Nathan’s and my book, is that being loved is practically the oxygen that we were made to breathe in order to keep alive and to flourish. An aching. longing pulses beneath, where no one can see. As the body requires food to stay alive, so the depths of a child hungers for love in order to stay alive. Each person longs for love that embraces, validates, affirms; that whispers, "Just as you are, I adore you. You delight me. I think about you and cherish the day you were born. You are my beloved and always will be, no matter what."
Each of us was crafted with a soul container that would need to be filled with love. Though no one can see from the outside whether ours is empty or full to overflowing, each of us has the ability to fill up another's cavern with words, touch, sacrifice, and generous gifts as we extend the life of Christ who is the source of life and love. But ultimately, it is Jesus who is the source of the love that will fill the holes in our heart.
We all sense that a mother's love is one of the most constant resources of God's love to children, able to sustain, strengthen, heal, and restore a child. Her love is a vibrant, living picture of what Christ is like. When we love our children well, and model to them what it is like to live a life of deep faith in our amazing God, our children will better be able to catch a glimpse of the remarkable life God has planned for them. These verses remind us:
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God, and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
The love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit.
If you have not love, you have become a noisy gong or a clanging symbol.
They will know you are my disciples by your love for one another.
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
REMARKABLE
Second, Jesus, God in the flesh, is the source of all our love, the power behind the love, the one who extends HIs love to us. He is, in short, remarkable, and came to allow us to share in the remarkable possibilities of engaging in His love, purpose and ways in and through our own lives.
When full of His reality in our own lives, we are most likely to understand and receive and live out the love of Jesus.. Without His filling of our own hearts, we will search for belonging all our lives.
Today, I know you will enjoy the podcast I recorded with a friend who has been a pastor of a church I attend for many years. Pastor Brady Boyd has a passion to spark and inspire true faith in the lives of all he meets, He desires that we know and understand the, well, remarkable life God had in mind for each of us. I know you will be inspired and encouraged by our conversation today.
I have been inspired and so encouraged to live fully into my heritage in Christ by Pastor Brady many times over the last number of years. So grateful.
Brady Boyd is the senior pastor of New Life Church in Colorado Springs. I know you will be encouraged by his new book, Remarkable.
Let us remember, We know that God is Love.
Let us remember that His Love through us moves, inspires, shapes the dreams, gives hope, holds us for eternity--for heaven. Loving well is our heritage, our duty, our service of gratitude as we extend HIs love and life through ourselves to others. . Love keeps us alive. When we live by faith, this invest love in others, our own souls become full of His love--we pour out, He pours in.
Why do I focus on God's love and grace so much? Because Love is the source of all life. It is Him reincarnated through us. Love fuels faith and hope and inspires to overcome. And so I speak of love--the acting out of love which brings light to darkness, satisfaction to a starving heart, comfort to a lonely soul, sympathy to hurt feelings. Love never fails. May our love muscles grow stronger and stronger until we see Him, Love incarnate, face to face.
Today, live into HIs remarkable design for you. Give your children the gift of understanding this wonderful design by teaching them about God’s love for each of them as they are.
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