Love

God's love--that is!!!

Have you had the first hand experience of God's love in your life? If you have you know that it is an amazing thing. We have expereinced God's love so fully and so often in our lives. God is good!

Our last big twist/bend/slide in our journey has straightened out and it was such a love gift--a big hug from the Lord--it made me know that I had to share about God's love today.

About 2 weeks ago, we suddenly had our main source of income taken away. We were VERY unsure of what this meant for our next few months. Randy was planning to continue with school full time this summer and I was planning on beginning some classes. But with the income dropping, we thought maybe Randy would have to try to find work instead of going to school. We did not want to rush ahead and take matters into our own hands. We began to extra diligently seek God to show us the next step. We waited on Him and within a week, our income was back!! God provided a scholarship for part of Randy's schooling for the next year and then he brought income back. He showed us that he still wanted Randy to go to school and that for now he still wanted him to go without needing to work.

This last year has been full of moments such as this. Times where God has said to us "Depend on me." "Trust me" "Listen to me". We are learning to be patient and wait on him, we are learning that he is faithful and will provide. AND we are learning that what we see as the best solution to a problem, is MOST often not what God sees!!

God loves us all so much. Think of these following verses:

1 John 4:7-12

7Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son[b] into the world that we might live through him. 10This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for[c] our sins. 11Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.


Matthew 6:28-34

28"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' 32For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

1 Corinthians 13

1If I speak in the tongues[a] of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames,[b] but have not love, I gain nothing.



4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.


8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. 11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. 12Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Romans 8:38-39

38For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,[m] neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

So, just the beginning of God's great love for us. God loves us more then we can imagine. If you have children, think about how much you love them....now multiply that by infinity and that is how much God LOVES YOU!!!

Now go live your day today like God loves you and remember how God calls us to act in love towards others.

Thanks for reading,

Rebecca