The love of God

Lately it seems like life is going crazy and people are just going their own ways and doing whatever makes them feel good.  Maybe that’s always happened and I’m just not noticing it.  James 1 talks about how it is our desires that lead to sin.  Anymore people just want to do whatever makes them feel good.  The world says if it makes you feel good do it, God says do what He says is good.  If we trust and obey God we may not always have all the successes and we may not be famous but God will know our name and that is all that matters. The love of God is great and His mercy and forgiveness is great.  It surpasses anything we will ever understand. It’s easy to get discouraged but if we trust God He will work everything out according to His plan. If you do not know Him turn to Him and trust Him today He is always waiting for you.  Life is hard sometimes and there may be challenges that we may never have thought we would have to face but God will always be with us. 

I love the lyrics to this song:

There's a wideness in God's mercy
I cannot find in my own
And He keeps His fire burning
To melt this heart of stone
Keeps me aching with a yearning
Keeps me glad to have been caught
In the reckless raging fury
That they call the love of God
Now I've seen no band of angels
But I've heard the soldiers' songs
Love hangs over them like a banner
Love within them leads them on
To the battle on the journey
And it's never gonna stop
Ever widening their mercies
And the fury of His love
Oh the love of God
And oh, the love of God
The love of God
Joy and sorrow are this ocean
And in their every ebb and flow
Now the Lord a door has opened
That all Hell could never close
Here I'm tested and made worthy
Tossed about but lifted up
In the reckless raging fury
That they call the love of God
 
"Who will separate us from the love of [b]Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 Just as it is written,
“For Your sake we are being put to death all day long;
We were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
37 But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 8:35-39
 

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  1. NinaMay 24, 2019 at 9:11 PM

    I love what you said. "It’s easy to get discouraged but if we trust God He will work everything out according to His plan". God has a perfect plan for our lives and all we have to do is to trust in the Lord, to follow His word and be obedient to Him so that He will direct our paths. God bless you as your continue to serve Him.

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