Last night our youth hosted a special valentine's banquet for our church family. Our guest speaker for the night talked about the Father's love for his children. He spoke of God's love being better than life. God's love is better than the love we share with our spouses, our boyfriends or girlfriends, our children, or any other earthly relationship. Gods' love is better than any thing we could ever experience in this world. But, the only way we know that in our innermost being is to experience God's love on a very personal level. Psalm 63: says, "Because Your lovingkindness is better than life..." Wow!
At the end of his message he asked each of us to close our eyes and ask the Father to let us see ourselves the way that He sees us? As I did that last night and again this morning these are the thoughts that went through my mind:
I had quick, but vivid snapshots of being a young boy and walking through the woods, or sitting by the creek, or even sitting up in a tree and I sensed His presence as if it were yesterday. I recalled moments of being filled with fear and worry, and I sensed Him holding me, I recalled tears and I sensed that He cried with me, I also remember being filled with happiness and joy and literally singing "This is the Day that the Lord hath made, or "I Love you Lord" and I sensed that He rejoiced with me.
And then it dawned on me, Father your presence and love for me was just as real and alive then as it is today, and still you pursue my heart with your lovingkindness. At 31 years old now with my own wife and family you still hold me when fear takes its grip, you still cry with me, and you still rejoice with me when my heart is flooded with your presence and peace.
Father, I trust in your loving kindness, you have been good to me! Your Love is better than Life!
"But I have trusted in Your loving kindness; My heart shall rejoice in Your salvation. I will sing to the Lord, Because He has dealt bountifully with me." -Psalm 13:5-6
At the end of his message he asked each of us to close our eyes and ask the Father to let us see ourselves the way that He sees us? As I did that last night and again this morning these are the thoughts that went through my mind:
I had quick, but vivid snapshots of being a young boy and walking through the woods, or sitting by the creek, or even sitting up in a tree and I sensed His presence as if it were yesterday. I recalled moments of being filled with fear and worry, and I sensed Him holding me, I recalled tears and I sensed that He cried with me, I also remember being filled with happiness and joy and literally singing "This is the Day that the Lord hath made, or "I Love you Lord" and I sensed that He rejoiced with me.
And then it dawned on me, Father your presence and love for me was just as real and alive then as it is today, and still you pursue my heart with your lovingkindness. At 31 years old now with my own wife and family you still hold me when fear takes its grip, you still cry with me, and you still rejoice with me when my heart is flooded with your presence and peace.
Father, I trust in your loving kindness, you have been good to me! Your Love is better than Life!
"But I have trusted in Your loving kindness; My heart shall rejoice in Your salvation. I will sing to the Lord, Because He has dealt bountifully with me." -Psalm 13:5-6
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