The Grandest Fact

THE GRANDEST FACT

"And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in Him." 1 John 4:16

I love my grand kids (and my kids ...) and I tell them often how much I love them. I will often ask them, "How much does Pop love you?" to which they are all starting to reply, "A bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck!"

Sometimes we need to step back as men and be reminded that God love us! Today's devotional penned by Oswald Chambers is a great encouragement. May there is some brother today who needs to hear this message:

Look back over you own history as revealed to you by grace, and you will see one central fact growing large: God is love. No matter how often your faith in such an announcement was clouded, no matter how the pain and suffering of the moment made you speak in a wrong mood, still this statement has borne its own evidence along with it most persistently. GOD IS LOVE.

In the future, when trials and difficulties await you, do not be fearful. Let not this faith slip from you; GOD IS LOVE. Whisper it not only to your heart in its hour of darkness, but here in the corner of God's earth. Live in the belief of it; preach it by your sweetened, chastened, happy life; sing it in consecrated moments of peaceful joy, sing until the world around you "is wrought to sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not."

The world does not invite you to sing, but God does. Song is the sign of an unburdened heart; so sing your songs of love uninvited, rising even higher and higher into a fuller concept of the greatest, grandest fact on the stage of life: GOD IS LOVE!

But words and emotions pass, precious as their influence may be for the time. So when the duller moments come and the mind needs something more certain and sure to consider than the memory of mere emotions and stirring sentiments, consider this revelation: the eternal fact that God is love -- not, God is loving.

We must keep ourselves in the love of God be meditating on this fact; then we shall not despair for long. The love of God performs a miracle of grace in graceless human hearts. GOD IS LOVE. One brief sentence; it is the gospel. (from HOW GREAT THOU ART -- Multnomah)

I don't know who you are ... but God does. He wants you to hear from Him this morning: I LOVE YOU! Respond to His love today, my brother! -- Bill Welte is President and CEO of America's KESWICK

Digging Deeper: Proverbs 22; Numbers 3-4; Mark 3:20-35

Dig This Quote: Repentance is the process of “changing our brains” so we think the way the Lord thinks. When we repent, we turn and walk away from a path that prevents us from seeing the desires of God manifest in our lives. When we turn and think the way God would have us think, we turn onto a path that brings life, and life abundant. So keep turning until you have turned into the new path ahead. – Chuck D. Pierce

Determined Digging: (Level 1) Psalm 28:7; (Level 2) Psalm 37:3-11