Tonight I am filled with a love beyond measure! The greatest love of all....the love of God, the Creator of the universe and His Son Jesus Christ! Only the Holy Spirit will be able to speak to my Father the love I have in my heart for Him!
How is it that through the most horrible trial of my life, sinned against by another and abandoned, I would find a greater love? I had the knowledge that God's love is bigger and greater than any love here on earth, but now I am experiencing it. And it seems newer every day! Oh, the sacrifice that Jesus chose to make for us all, even such a one as Hitler...Oh the love!
I'm learning just how truly painful love can be, if it is a love given by God Himself. Agape love. We will never know just how much love Christ had for us. What I am experiencing now is just a taste. I have agape love for someone, a love that was given to me for this person by Jesus. I have this love that will not go away, even though I have been wronged in the worst way. Yes, I have anger. I even struggle with forgiving. I have terrible thoughts that I must repent of daily. Yet the love still remains. It is painful to love someone who hurts you. But this is the best kind of love. A selfless love. A love that I can't even rid myself of, praise God! How can anyone love someone who hates you...only by the power of Jesus Christ, and only by continually remembering His own sacrifice for me. He died while we were yet sinners...while we still refused Him, denied Him, even hated Him. AMAZING!
Romans 5:8 God demostrates His love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. WOW!
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