"This is how God showed his love for us: God sent his only Son into the world so we might live through him."
1 John 4:9 (The Message)
A few weeks ago I was driving to work like any other typical week day morning. I had a longer than usual route this particular Thursday providing more opportunity to listen to my CD's and for the songs to penetrate my mind. One of the tunes, which I've heard quite often, included words that hit me in a new way: "Jesus, you're the love of God". Okay, I know, these lyrics are really simple but the profundity of their explosive truth evoked a deeper revelation inside my heart than before. Jesus is the perfect reflection of Father God. O, how deep the father's love for me and O, how thankful I am to know his Son for to know Jesus is to bask in the almighty and enduring love of a great God. To know Jesus is to be covered by the wings of an omniscient and sovereign King.
Does the unexpected loss of my mother make my God any less God? Does my father's cancer diagnosis deplete His power? Do my doubts and fears subtract from His magnificence? The answer is no. Very slowly, I'm coming to learn that as flood waters grow in their intensity so too does the beauty of my God. His strength, grace, mercy and peace - all by products of his perfect love - increase, intensify and magnify in splendour, leading me to rejoice in the best thing going when it seems there is little earthly good left in which I can find any sort of genuine and lasting joy. Without a doubt, this is a process - I wax and wane as I'm tossed about by the storms that come my way. However, just as certain is my position in Christ: I'm in the boat with Jesus through it all. I simply need to be aware that he's there with me.
I would much rather do without life's myriad of challenges. However, Jesus, and the love of the Father, have never been as beautiful. Jesus, you ARE the love of God.
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