The love my God has shown this morning is so all-surrounding and overwhelming, it is as a mighty ocean in it's fullness around me!
Oh, the deep, deep love of Jesus! Underneath me, all around me, is the song of His love for His children.
"See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called the children of God; and so we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him." -1 John 3:1
Let me thank you, Lord, let me dance for you in the only way I know how.
Bless my shaking hands with the power to love as you do, selflessly, with an unchanging devotion that echoes the depth of your agape love.
Still my tongue to silence, do not let me slay the ones I love with hasty words. Irrespective of fault, let me know you better by loving as you do.
Thank you, Father, for your promises, for the blessings you have stored up for the child who is faithful. For the grace with which you have flooded my feeble heart, let me sing!
The coastline bears its teeth, and the winds above batters the head of your child, yet you are there, in the hush of the aftermath I hear your still, quiet voice.
Your silence is long, and the days of my anguish stretch as though un-ending. Do not let me wander from your ways. Speak to me, for I know you walk beside me, that you hold my hand in your silence towards me.
Challenge my heart, O God, and though I will fall, and though I will give in to temptation, discipline me to the likeness of Christ -- conform me to the image of Jesus.
"For those he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers." -Romans 8:29
Lord, teach me to love.
"Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere, brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart..." -1 Peter 1:22
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