LOVE WINS.

I saw the title for this post today on a bumper sticker.  Very simple white lettering on a black background.

Yes, I had one of those moments.  You know the moments in our walk with Christ where we become awestruck with a flood of images.  Christ on the cross with His arms held open.  Truth is we have example after example where Christ embodied the love of God in His short life here on this earth.

Verses that give us great descriptions of God's displayed love.  From the beginning right through to the point where our Father kicked Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden.  "Then the Lord God said, 'Behold the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil.  Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever-' therefore the Lord God sent him out from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken." Genesis 3:22-23

God couldn't allow us to live forever in this condition.  Separated from Himself for all eternity by our sinful flesh, this wasn't in God's plan for mankind.  Tossed out because of His great love, not out of anger or as a punishment.  Just shown the door so the plan of redemption could begin in earnest.

This one example sets up the beginning of centuries where God with grace, only the grace He alone can provide, shows mankind over and over again His love.  The depth and breadth of which we only ever catch but a glance.  Aw moments in this life.

We really only get very little pictures into God's great love.  We struggle with "cast all our sins into the depths of the sea." (Micah 7:19)  or "as far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us." (Psalm 103:12)  The bottom line is that has never changed and never will.  His great love for us cannot and will not change.


All the way to the cross God has shared His love for mankind.  The goal is the same now as it has always been.  Our creator desires a relationship with us that is deeper than any we've ever know. For some, we had great relationships in this life and other haven't been so blessed.  Regardless of where we stand in the previous sentence, God desires to show us love as only He can.


Seek God and you will find him!  Draw near to Him and He will draw near to you - James 4:8, paraphrase.


Blessings & Peace