Real Love

I John 4: 10-11

But this is real love--not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the Sacrifice to take away our sins. Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other.

That God would know that we would be so rebellious and wicked, and yet create us anyway, knowing what it would cost Him--this is beyond my ken to try to fathom His goodness and greatness and almighty power to give us freedom of will, yet use every one of us as part of His grand Plan of the Ages!

O my Father, Your wisdom and skill to work everything into Your Plan perfectly and seamlessly is amazing and astounding. And I see everything in my life and in this World around me all proceeding toward that tumultuous and shocking end.

Please, I pray, Father, strengthen me, and put a strong guard on my mouth and fingers, to pause to think first of how my words may be perceived by the hearers before expressing the thought; that I may not push people away, but draw them ever nearer to You, my God.

Even so, come, Lord Jesus!