{"id":12160,"date":"2022-02-03T09:11:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T14:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westpark-baptist-dev.com\/?p=12160"},"modified":"2022-06-08T12:07:29","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T16:07:29","slug":"with-love-from-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westpark-baptist-dev.com\/with-love-from-god\/","title":{"rendered":"With Love, From God"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><h3>Our Heart&#8217;s Desire<\/h3>\r\n<p>What does the human spirit crave most? Is it not love? A perpetual love that is unconditional, selfless, and giving is all that our innermost being desires. But where can one find such love? Human love and brotherly love cannot suffice. It is that deep yearning within our soul that recognizes there is a love that surpasses anything known to mankind. Only God\u2019s love can satiate the hunger the soul longs for.<\/p>\r\n<p>God\u2019s divine love rises above any love that we can possibly imagine. If we heaped all the love humankind could muster it would fall short of the splendor and abundance of God\u2019s love. It is hard for us to conceive that such a love even exists. But it does, even before the earth and heavens were formed. It is a love so powerful, so encompassing, so vast, never waning, yet so personal, God freely gives it to every individual who accepts it.<\/p>\r\n<p>It is there for the taking for anyone to receive even to those who reject God\u2019s love. Once they come to their senses and come face to face with the glory of God\u2019s redeeming love, resistance is futile. With complete abandon, we forsake all that has brought us to this point so that we can accept that great resplendent gift that is God\u2019s love. Even our very soul leaps for joy to reconnect with its great Creator. We cannot help but desire its total completeness, its tenderness, its overwhelming peace, and its comfort of hope.<\/p>\r\n<p>God chose to deliver us from sin because He loves us. God is love. It was His plan that only through the great sacrifice of His Son, Jesus Christ, would His love story unfold to save us. It is salvation\u2019s plan, the ultimate act of love. No rituals or ceremony, simply accept this everlasting gift handed to us through God\u2019s grace. It is the ultimate love story sent to us with love from God.<\/p>\r\n<h3>Finding Love In God&#8217;s Word<\/h3>\r\n<p>God\u2019s love is expressed throughout the Bible. Here are just some passages God preserved for us so we could learn of His love. Which is your favorite?<\/p>\r\n<p>Proverbs 8:17: \u201cI\u00a0love\u00a0them that\u00a0love\u00a0me; and those that seek me early shall find me.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>1 John 4:16: \u201cAnd we have known and believed the\u00a0love\u00a0that God hath to us. God is\u00a0love; and he that dwelleth in\u00a0love\u00a0dwelleth in God, and God in him.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>1 John 4:7: \u201cBeloved, let us\u00a0love\u00a0one another: for\u00a0love\u00a0is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>John 14:23: \u201cJesus answered and said unto him, If a man\u00a0love\u00a0me, he will keep my words: and my Father will\u00a0love\u00a0him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>1 Corinthians 8:3: \u201cBut if any man\u00a0love\u00a0God, the same is known of him.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>Ephesians 2:4: \u201cBut God, who is rich in mercy, for his great\u00a0love\u00a0wherewith he loved us,\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>Titus 3:4: \u201cBut after that the kindness and\u00a0love\u00a0of God our Saviour toward man appeared,\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>Romans 5:8: \u201cBut God commendeth his\u00a0love\u00a0toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>John 15:9: \u201cAs the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my\u00a0love.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>Romans 8:35: \u201cWho shall separate us from the\u00a0love\u00a0of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>Ephesians 3:19: \u201cAnd to know the\u00a0love\u00a0of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>Romans 5:5: \u201cAnd hope maketh not ashamed; because the\u00a0love\u00a0of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>Romans 8:39: \u201cNor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the\u00a0love\u00a0of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>1 John 4:10: \u201cHerein is\u00a0love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>Jeremiah 31:3: \u201cThe LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting\u00a0love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>1 John 3:1: \u201cBehold, what manner of\u00a0love\u00a0the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>1 John 4:9: \u201cIn this was manifested the\u00a0love\u00a0of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>Ephesians 5:2: \u201cAnd walk in\u00a0love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>2 Thessalonians 3:5: \u201cAnd the Lord direct your hearts into the\u00a0love\u00a0of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>And for a real treat, listen to the song \u201cO Glorious Love!\u201d written by John W. 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