Perfect Love

"This is how we know, this is how we know what love is
                      
  Just one look at Your cross
                                                       
And this is where we see, this is where we see how love works
                        
  For You surrendered Your all
                                    
  And this is how we know that You have loved us first
                                  
  This is where we chose to love You in return

                                    
For You so loved the world that You gave Your only Son
                                           
Love amazing, so divine, we will love You in return
                                   
For this life that You give, for this death that You have died
                                            
Love amazing, so divine, we will love You in reply, Lord" ("This is how we know" - Matt Redman)

I love this song. I love having Matt Redman and Chris Tomlin as worship pastors. How can the words not speak to you? "For You so loved the world that You gave Your only Son. Love amazing, so divine, we will love You in return." Nobody can actually fathom what happened on Calvary's Cross that day. It;s not entirely "normal" to want to give your only, earthly, life for someone that you love because of the depth of your love for them. But Christ did! How amazing! Christ died for our sins, for you and me, we've all heard it; but.

... the only thing He wants from you is a relationship. Think of how little that is of us that He asks. He carried  a cross!... not just a cross but the cross -- the cross that gave us life! I personally cannot imagine how heavy carrying a cross would be! Furthermore, after carrying the cross he was nailed to it! I don't know about you, but I would stop after carrying it. I'd be dead already. But Christ kept going! He kept going for you. And you! And me..

And the only thing he wants from us is a relationship?! Are you KIDDING?! Nope. He just wants your attention, your love! 

"And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Romans 8:38-39)

Nothing.. Nothing.. NOTHING can ever surpass the love God has for you and the title He has given you by calling you His children. Louie Giglio calls Him "The Perfect Father" because he is. Maybe you had a mediocre father growing up, a bad one, maybe even an absent one. It's ok because no matter what you've come to believe about God being just like your earthly father,

IT JUST ISN'T TRUE.


God knew you before you were born, in Isaiah it says he "knitted you in your mother's womb." He has a plan, a purpose for YOUR life RIGHT. NOW. He could ONLY  fulfill that purpose by carrying an overwhelmingly heavy cross, and sacrifice being nailed to it. And you mean to tell me that by being a perfect Father, knowing me before I was born, knowing that I wasn't an accident even though my parents may say so, and being the perfet MARTYR for me that he nailed himself to a cross so I could have a relationship with him? Not just "a relationship" but a perfect relationship? You mean one that has unconditional love that maybe my family, friends, whomever never showed me? You mean one that is so amazing, so divine, all he wants is love in reply? That's it?


Yep.