Comments on: What is the True Measure of God’s Love?

By: kanj

kanj — Sun, 10 May 2009 21:17:59 +0000

Helen, thank you for this devotional. I remind myself of the ‘worst’ days and remember how I’ve come to the good days. When the bad/worst days come (and they have) I know that the Lord is with me.
”He who trusts in the LORD, mercy shall surround him.”-Psalm 32:10

By: sharon b

sharon b — Wed, 06 May 2009 21:22:22 +0000

i know i could not have made it through all of the bad days with out Him. thats how i know He loves me

By: Rosie

Rosie — Mon, 04 May 2009 18:37:13 +0000

I would like to make one more further comment…
My house burned down to the very ground this last January 13, 2009. The Lord woke me up at 1:30 in the morning and my husband and I got out with only the pajamas on our back within only seven minutes of our lives or we would have burned with the fire. Yes, it was a total devastation. Never the less, my husband and I felt an incredible presence of God’s love through everything. And, we had this incredible peace (we definitely cried too) but for some reason God gave us His special joy and we new that everything was going to be alright. We continued to worship Him with all our hearts in the congregation (and this was not forced joy) we had a real sense of God’s provisional presence and love. In addition, I had been battling a life threatening illness. BUT GOD….supplies all our needs more abundantly than we could EVER have imagined. Three different congregations helped us with gifts and finances. Strangers…I’m not kidding…strangers just handed us money and gave us gifts. The house we are in now was the only house we looked at.We both knew in our hearts it was the one from the Lord, though 10 others had come before wanting the house, the owner turned them away, and when he saw us he said he knew we were the ones. The Lord returned everything even more and better than what we had had. But the greatest blessing was experiencing HIS awesome love in the midst of our devastating circumstances. We know with all hearts who HE is and we love Him so dearly. “Thank you LORD, You are an incredible friend and LORD of all…we love You.”

By: Rosie

Rosie — Mon, 04 May 2009 16:17:45 +0000

My reflection on this devotion and posed question:
It’s much more than just realizing that He gave His life as a sacrifice, but rather why the sacrifice? Yes, because this is the ultimate expression of His love. Understanding where God is in a circumstance begins with really understanding that He IS love. It’s having an understanding of His very nature; of understanding His personal attributes and character which comes through reading the scripture and through an intimate ongoing relationship with the LORD. By seeking Him with all your heart to know Him, to understand Him, we learn that He truly loves us, and that circumstances are just waves in the sea that Jesus tells us not to look. Rather Jesus tells us to keep our eyes fixed on Him.
In Matthew 5:45 in Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, He teaches on the principles of how to love. He teaches that we are to love our enemy if we are to be called children of God….sometimes evil things can happen…but that doesn’t mean that comes from God. Jesus continues to tell us that “the rain falls on the just and unjust”.
In this world we will have tribulation and we will experience seasons that change but God’s love an nature never changes….this is a reminding comfort as I asses my circumstances….yes, HE has OVERCOME the world, yes, on the tree of sacrifice as earlier expressed, because that is the true expression of His very nature. God is not evil; He in fact is GOOD. GOD IS LOVE… always has been and always will be.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Mon, 04 May 2009 15:09:02 +0000

Thanks Karen for sharing this. It is a great addition to the devotional today. :)

By: Kara

Kara — Mon, 04 May 2009 12:36:55 +0000

We have been talking a lot in our womens group at church about how life is a puzzle and our lives are just different parts of that puzzle. They all fit together for God’s ultimate plan. He loves each one of us and wants us to reach others. If we did not sometimes have to go through the storms in this life, how would we reach those that have not yet come to the understanding of God’s love. Just as in the when we are maybe diagnosed with that incurable disease, there might be someone in that doctors office that needs a glimpse of hope and you are that hope and the love you have for your Savior. This life throws many things our way but God uses them for his good and now you are the light that that person neeeded to find a wonderful Savior. Just remember that you are a piece of God’s puzzle.