Living In The Love of God
Psalm 36.5 Your love, O LORD reaches to the heavens,
Your faithfulness to the skies.
6 Your righteousness is like the highest mountains,
Your justice like the great deep.
You, O LORD, preserve both people and animals.
7 How priceless is Your unfailing love, O God!
People take refuge in the shadow of Your wings.
8 They feast on the abundance of Your house;
You give them drink from Your river of delights.
9 For with You is the fountain of life;
in Your light we see light.
God is love. He has told that in a number of places in His Word.
God loves you. The Apostle John, also called the Apostle whom Jesus loved and the Apostle of Love wrote, "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 them."
I John 4.16
We can live in the love of God. It is the only place to live!
1. His Love is Greater Than We Can Imagine- v.5
Paul prayed that we may know the unknowable.
Ephesians 3.17a And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
We can experience this love that is beyond our ability to comprehend.
I believe that is to be a significant portion of our experience/ relationship with God: experiencing things we cannot comprehend. We are to grow in the knowledge of our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ but there are also things many things we will not understand until we see Him Face to face.
This is in difficult things and in blessings.
We have talked much about trials and how we seldom understand why.
How about His blessings? There are many which we don't understand.
Grace- we can define it but as we experience it we really don't understand.
Numerous blessings- the extent to which God blesses us is often beyond our ability to understand.
When it comes to Him loving us Andre Crouch's song says it well, "I don't know why Jesus loved me, I don't know why He cared..." I really don't!
God's love for us is huge.
It reaches to the heavens.
Psalm 57.10 For Your lovingkindness is great to the heavens And Your truth to the clouds.
Psalm 89:2
For I have said, "Lovingkindness will be built up forever; In the heavens You will establish Your faithfulness."
Psalm 103:11
For as high as the heavens are above the earth, So great is His lovingkindness toward those who fear Him.
Psalm 108:4
For Your lovingkindness is great above the heavens, And Your truth reaches to the skies.
Living in His Love means many things happening in our lives we do not understand! It is beyond measure.
2. He Cares About People And Animals
He feeds the birds. Matthew 6.26
"Your Heavenly Father feeds them."
He was concerned about the animals in Ninevah.
Jonah 4.11 And should I not have concern for the great city of Nineveh, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot tell their right hand from their left—and also many animals?”
Proverbs 12.10 A righteous care for the needs of their animals
God's Love For Us:
He gave up His life for us.
He is with us.
Luke 12.22 Then Jesus said to his disciples: “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; or about your body, what you will wear. 23 For life is more than food, and the body more than clothes. 24 Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them. And how much more valuable you are than birds!
3. His Love is Priceless.
Beyond ability to measure monetarily.
Some versions have excellent. The Hebrew word literally means valuable, prized, weighty, precious, rare, splendid, costly, highly valued, precious stones or jewels. It is a term used for appraising precious stones.
Impossible to measure, none like it.
4. Love Never Fails
People take refuge in the shadow of Your wings
I Corinthians 13.8
Put Jesus' Name in
Put your name in place of love, how far can you get?
5. Refuge, Feasting, Drinking, Living in Light are all gifts of His Love.
We experience life. Living In the love of God.
He is our refuge.
We feast on His goodness, and drink from the rivers of life.
We live in His light.
Live in the Love of God always. Remain in His love.
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