The Great X-cape II: God's Amazing Love

by Brown, Angel

• ISBN13: 9781456761691
• ISBN10: 1456761692
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-09-07
• Publisher: Author Solutions

Excerpts

Many times, I thought that if I loved someone with all of my heart that they would automatically love me back. I found out from experience that the measure of love that I have for someone else is not always an accurate indicator of their love for me. Many times, we have our own perceptions of love, and we have our own ideas regarding the individuals in our lives that we feel should love us. Mothers should love their children. Husbands should love their wives. Children should love their parents, and pastors should love the members of their congregation. We usually do strive to love the people in our lives whom we are taught that we are supposed to love, but do we really love them according to the measure, capacity, and by the standards by which God loves us or desires us to love? Our love has conditions, but God's love is unconditional and without limits. As we seek for the answers to the questions that we have, and we seek those answers from the One who has the answers, we will find that God's love for us is beyond our human capacity of comprehension. Only when we allow Christ to love others through us, will we truly find the answers to all of the questions that we have ever had, and we will come to the realization of God's divine, unconditional love for us all. We will no longer question His love for us regardless of situations and circumstances that take place in our lives. We will come to the realization that all things work together for good to them that love God and are called according to His purpose as we finally come to the realization of God's unconditional love for us. Only when we walk in a man's shoes can we truly understand their motives and their reasoning for the things that they do. Only when we walk in the shoes of Christ as we allow Christ in us to love others through us will we truly come to the understanding of who Christ is. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then we shall also appear with Him in glory. (Colossians 3: 4). When Christ becomes our life, He will appear in us, and we shall then appear with Him in glory as we begin to walk in His shoes and allow Him to love others through us. When others begin to persecute us and say all manner of evil against us, we will then count it a blessing to forgive them, just as Christ said to His Father, "Forgive them, Lord, for they know not what they do."