How Great Is Your Love for Me

One of my favorite worship songs is "Amazed" written by Jared Anderson. The words of this song talk about how wide, how deep, and how great God's love is for us. What is it about God's love that is so amazing? For an answer to that question, let us turn to scripture.

John 3:16 lets us know that God loved us so much that he was compelled to GIVE. Love denotes an action:
"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life"

As we read in Romans 8:38-39, we are INSEPARABLE from the love of God. Things may try to enter in, but nothing can come between us and the love that God has for us: "For I am sure that  neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord."

God's amazing love also prompted him to consider us His friends. We read in John 15:15, "No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made know to you."

Because of the amazing love that God has for us, we are also commanded to love one another. As it is stated in I John 4:9-12, "In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and Hs love is perfected in us."

My prayer each day is to love God and my brothers and sisters in Christ more and more.

Lord, I'm amazed by You

Lord, I'm amazed by You

Lord, I'm amazed by You

How You love me.

Ann L. Gantt, Ph.D., LCSW