October 4, 2017
Your number one calling in life is not to do something. You number one calling is to receive something. Let God love you.
The Bible says this in Ephesians 3: “I pray … and, as your pastor, this is my prayer for you during these six weeks … that Jesus Christ will be more and more at home in your hearts as you trust in Him. May your roots go down deep into the soil of God’s marvelous love and may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep His love really is. And may you experience the love of Christ … not just know it intellectually, experience it, experience it in every fiber of your being! … though it is so great you will never fully understand it.” (Ephesians 3:17-19)
It’s like an ant trying to understand the internet. Your brain doesn’t have the capacity to understand how much God loves you. But the Bible says, “Just go ahead and try, just try to wrap your mind around how wide, how long, how high, and how deep God’s love for you really is.”
Think of this … One-hundred billion years ago – before anything existed – God already thought about you. And, as He thought of you, He loved you. And God has been waiting your entire life for this moment, where He can get you to sit still for just a moment, and He could say this to you:
“My son, My daughter … You have no idea how much I love you. I have always loved you. There has never been a moment of your existence when I didn’t love you. I was the one who planned your birth. I allowed that fertilization and conception. I wanted you alive so I could love you. I saw you formed in your mother’s womb. I saw you take your first breath. I heard your first cry. There’s been no moment of your life when I turned my back on you, that I turned my eyes away from you, that I didn’t listen to you. I saw every pain you went through, every sin you’ve ever done, the celebrations and the sadness, the happy times and the sad times, the pain and the exhilaration. I’ve been there every moment. And, whether you realize it or not, I was gazing on you in love … because I made you to love you … because I made you to love you” … So it’s time to talk to God about it. This is your moment.