The Love Of God

I'm only shaking someone's hand that I believe has washed it. No dirty hand shaking for me. :smilewinkgrin:

 

Someone stole your foot? I'm confused...

 

LOL, yes, I understood. I couldn't resist, though. The visual of someone stealing a foot was too tempting.

 

Thank You, God, for Your amazing love and grace. You've given me so much of that today, and I haven't deserved it once. Thanks for not giving up on me, in spite of everything. Thank You for laying it on Bro. Charles' heart to bring up this topic, and thank You that he obeyed You. Thank You for using this topic in my life to encourage me just when I needed it. I love You, Lord. Take control.

DRF

 

Hey, you stole my verse! (Ps. 40:1-3) I love that passage. There's a song that goes along with it--tell me if it sounds familiar.

"I was in a valley. I was sinking low.
I had slipped and fallen. I had missed the goal.
Condemnation threatened. I cried out in fear.
Mercy said, 'Forgiven! Come and fly up here.'

If you bear the burden of a sin-scarred life--
Past mistakes and failures haunt you in the night--
You CAN BE FORGIVEN, for God's Word is true.
On the wings of eagles, you can sing it, too!

I love the Lord. He heard my cry;
He lifted me way up high,
Set my feet upon a mountaintop.
Just think of it--the Lord and King,
The Creator of everything
Loves me with a love that won't stop."

Hallelujah!

Let's keep this thread going, guys!

DRF

 

Thank you Lord for Charles, whose lips are always ready with praise for you, and thankfulness! He is an encouragement.

 

Wow...didn't know God and I had so much in common....not only is his creation a masterpiece, it's also on display for a limited time like mine are! I've always had issues with things having an "ending..." especially if it's a masterpiece....you just want it to never finish but that doesn't happen in this lifetime...playing it over and over again gets depressing after awhile...and eventually it'll be almost destroyed and/or forgotten...nobody does the plays of ancient Greece anymore....no one does the operas written at least before Wagner....I've even been afraid to even start on something knowing that this outcome is imminent for anything I come up with....but God has the exact same circumstance, thanks to us, and eventually has to scrap everything this universe, including us partly....and redo it all over again....and on top of that is making it much more marvelous than before! If God sees it all worthwhile, then I guess theres a similar point to me creating something that'll last much shorter than God's...though I still can't see what that point is....(That question is already answered but I'm too lazy to re-edit this)

Thank you God for understanding and quieting my concerns

 

Every time I see this thread title, I think of:



He can flat sho' sing "The Love of God." That's my favorite song of his. (or a tie with "The Wonder of it All")

(laffs as everyone falls over in a dead faint...processing the fact that I like Bev Shea)

 

The Love of God
Frederich Lehman, public domain

The love of God is greater far
Than tongue or pen can ever tell;
It goes beyond the highest star,
And reaches to the lowest hell;
The guilty pair, bowed down with care,
God gave His Son to win;
His erring child He reconciled,
And pardoned from his sin.

Refrain:
Oh, love of God, how rich and pure!
How measureless and strong!
It shall forevermore endure—
The saints’ and angels’ song.

When hoary time shall pass away,
And earthly thrones and kingdoms fall,
When men who here refuse to pray,
On rocks and hills and mountains call,
God’s love so sure, shall still endure,
All measureless and strong;
Redeeming grace to Adam’s race—
The saints’ and angels’ song.

Could we with ink the ocean fill,
And were the skies of parchment made,
Were every stalk on earth a quill,
And every man a scribe by trade;
To write the love of God above
Would drain the ocean dry;
Nor could the scroll contain the whole,
Though stretched from sky to sky.

 

haha - I had already posted the words to this song. It's one of the best songs ever written, in my humble opinion.

"...to write the love of God above would drain the oceans dry..."

Beautiful.