GOOD NEWS

God is Love . That is His very nature. He looks at us love-starved and seeks to fill us because only He can. We were all made from love with a key-way whose only key is love and no other key can fit.

He desires mercy. He wants to love us irrespective of who we are. Every mother looks at her child and is proud. No one sees a child as the mother does. How then can we describe this one that has called us to love us. What can we give Him that He does not already have but ourselves. Surrendering to Him does not increase Him but makes us whole and that is what He seeks. When He looks at you, He does not see you like others do. Through His loving eyes, your faults and weaknesses grow strangely dim. He is LOVE that called us. He does not seek what we have but who we are.

He never had a reputation. Reclining with sinners without caring about what would be said of Him. While man saw their sins, He saw their souls.

He desires mercy not judgement, never giving us what we deserve as we all deserve death. Woe to those that preach works, classifying the love of the master with scales not even worthy. Who can stand before the Lord? Who can defend rights to the love of God? Can't we see He does not need us to be perfect but calls us to be.

Words can never fully describe this love so indescribable. This uneven relationship between righteous God and righteous man. He calls us righteous not because of what we've done but what He has.

He wants the dead raised into life with Him because there is no other way. Seeing righteousness in our sinful nature makes it all sin as doing all right does not make for righteousness. Why won't we accept a saviour as we cannot do it all.

For what He has done, He expects no reward from us but all He desires from us, He has given to us - His life that in Him, we may live. As oxygen is the only gas we can breathe, He is the only life we can live. He has become all things to all people, a sheep so we would never be one (i.e. molested, pushed around, led to slaughter), sin so we can be righteous, hope so we could look to Him.

Every other door is a dead end as He is the only way.

Who then are you to call unclean what He has made clean, to call unrighteous you who He has made righteous even by becoming sin in the process.

He says the you there because most of the time, we condemn ourselves more than the devil even has to as we even inspire him, doing it in ways he would never have.

"All we can do is all we can do but all we can do is enough". -

All we can do is accept this love that has been given so generously, sold with the currency of faith not works.

All I'm saying is - God loves you. He not just loves you but He's in love with you and it's not based on you and there is nothing you can do to take it away. He has always loved you and won't stop now.

The ones that condemn you, do they have nail prints in their hands and love in their eyes? All this is but a fragment of God's love, it can never be fully explained or understood only experienced and accepted.

He said that He was consumed by the zeal of His father's house but He was driven by His love for us. He did all He could and says if there's more He would. It's not about the pain of the cross but the weight of His love for us. Again, He did not come to make an impact that will outlive Him but because He saw you and me in hell. Hell is simply being separated from God. It's not about the fire that burns without but the fire that burns within. How can you truly know God's love and fall away?

It's not just about speaking mysteries that will get people thinking or give them a shiver in their bones. If they do not know the one that has called them to love them, what use is it?

The cry of the church is not for more prayers / grace. It's not for more growth/funds but the cry of love. How would the very thing that bound us be so much in lack.

Know this: God loves you.

Reference: Matthew 9