Sep 29 2007
Because He Chooses To
Love. We’ve all but worn out the word. This morning I used love to describe my feelings toward my wife and toward peanut butter. Far from identical emotions. I’ve never proposed to a jar of peanut butter (though I have let one sit on my lap during a television show). Overuse has defused the word, leaving it with the punch of a butterfly wing.
Biblical options still retain their starch. Scripture employs an artillery of terms for love, each one calibrated to reach a different target. Consider the one Moses used with his followers: “The LORD chose your ancestors as the objects of his love” (Deut.10:15 NLT).
This passage warms our hearts. But it shook the Hebrews’ world. They heard this: “The Lord binds [hasaq] himself to his people.” Hasaq speaks of a tethered love, a love attached to something or someone. I’m picturing a mom connected by a child harness to her rambunctious five-year-old as the two of them walk through the market. (I once thought the leashes were cruel; then I became a dad.) The strap serves two functions, yanking and claiming. You yank your kid out of trouble and in doing so proclaim, “Yes, he is as wild as a banshee. But he’s mine.”
In this case, God chained himself to Israel. Because the people were lovable? No. “GOD wasn’t attracted to you and didn’t choose you because you were big and important—the fact is, there was almost nothing to you. He did it out of sheer love, keeping the promise he made to your ancestors” (Deut. 7:7–8 MSG). God loves Israel and the rest of us because he chooses to.
by Max Lucado
God’s good and his mercy endures forever, he uses what would be deemed insignificant in the eyes man to move nations. His love is from everlasting to everlasting and it’s all ours - all we need to do is see it with a whole heart
Thank you Jesus !!!
Though I have failed many times, God’s love has kept me from failing all the time.
I often feel as if Gods love is to good for me, as I have failed many times. However I only need to look back in life to realise that Gods Love has been working with me. U started With 10 Failures and now I have 5. Praise God. Sometimes we look how far we have to go, and forget how far we have come.
Life is a big struggle and the devil will try what he can to hinder you in any way. He has been hard at work doing that with me, but I know where my faith and love lies and that is with my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Thank you my Lord for always caring, and forgiving, and picking me up in times of trouble. I Love You :-).