LOVE
what do you love? i mean really love. i think its funny because we say man i love oreos or man i love those shoes, but think about it. do you not also tell your parents you love them; your friends? do you not also tell God you love him? so i want to know this is there different types of love? i’ve always considered love to be something so much deeper. i don’t really like to just dish out my “i love you’s” to anyone. Because to me love isn’t something you can explain, but i’m gonna try. Love is that thing that keeps us going. It makes us look like abosulute fools and it makes us do the unthinkable. Its why we come home at the end of the day. Its something we desire. And when the things we love are gone, we feel a part of us is missing. I want you to think about what you love. Is it your parents? Is it your spouse? Is it your boyfriend or girlfriend? is it your friends? Is it your siblings? Is it your car? Is it your phone? Is it music? Is it your computer? Is it food? Is it the God of this universe?? I want you to think about how much time you invest in all of those things whether it be family, friends , or material possesions and then, think about how much time you invest in your relationship with God? So i ask you this, if you love all of those things and invest so much time in them why are we not just as willing to invest that time with our God and Savior if we love Him so much? So i ask you think about what you really love and what your investing your time in. And why are we not willing to look like such fools and do crazy things to express our love to God. Guys, God showed us how much He loved us by sending His one and only Son to die on the cross. To take OUR place. To take on OUR burdens and sins. why? BECAUSE HE LOVES US! and we don’t deserve it. My Jesus was beaten and bruised on a cross for my sins because He loves me that much. He didn’t just do it for me He did it for you too. It makes me SO thankful. Because i don’t know how many people you know that would die on the cross and be beaten and battered until they were barely recognizable, for the sins of the world. so why, if you say you love Him so much, do you continue to turn your back on Him? He is screaming out your name and your not listening. I have to listen to my own words sometimes because I’m so guilty of this as well. He just wants to spend time with you. Because He loves you.
He is jealous for me,
Loves like a hurricane, I am a tree,
Bending beneath the weight of his wind and mercy.
When all of a sudden,
I am unaware of these afflictions eclipsed by glory,
And I realise just how beautiful You are,
And how great Your affections are for me.
And oh, how He loves us so,
Oh how He loves us,
How He loves us all
Yeah, He loves us,
Whoa! how He loves us,
Whoa! how He loves us,
Whoa! how He loves.
Yeah, He loves us,
Whoa! how He loves us,
Whoa! how He loves us,
Whoa! how He loves.
We are His portion and He is our prize,
Drawn to redemption by the grace in His eyes,
If grace is an ocean, we’re all sinking.
So Heaven meets earth like a sloppy wet kiss,
And my heart turns violently inside of my chest,
I don’t have time to maintain these regrets,
When I think about, the way…
He loves us,
Whoa! how He loves us,
Whoa! how He loves us,
Oh how He loves.
Yeah, He loves us,
Whoa! how He loves us,
Whoa! how He loves us,
Whoa! how He loves.
Well, I thought about You the day Stephen died,
And You met me between my breaking.
I know that I still love You, God, despite the agony.
…They want to tell me You’re cruel,
But if Stephen could sing, he’d say it’s not true, cause…
Cause He loves us,
Whoa! how He loves us.
Whoa! how He loves us.
Whoa! how He loves.
Yeah, He loves us,
Whoa! how He loves us,
Whoa! how He loves us,
Whoa! how He loves.
-How He loves us-John Mark Mcmillan
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