Perry Noble » God Scripture Heart Devotions Sin

The other night I was putting Charisse, my three year old, to bed and told her I loved her. She replied, “I love you too daddy.”

I then told her, “Charisse, I love you more than you could ever imagine!”

“What does imagine mean?” she asked.

“I love you bigger than you could ever think about or dream,” I replied.

Her eyes got really wide and she looked at me with the most serious look I’ve ever seen on her face and asked, “Do you love me more than 18 dollars?”

18 dollars was as big as she could imagine, and when I told her I loved her so much more than 18 dollars, she had the biggest smile on her face. It absolutely amazed her my love for her was greater than something she thought was of so much value.

And God Loves You Even More

When I left her room, laughing at how “cute” that moment was, I felt the Lord move in my heart and show me that trying to comprehend his love for me is like Charisse trying to comprehend my love for her; my mind could never conceive it! (Ephesians 3:17-19). God loves his children, not based on their performance, but rather as their position as his children.

If you belong to Jesus, God’s love for you is more powerful than the sin that seems to haunt you:

• God loves you even though you are wrestling through an addiction
• God loves you despite the abortion
• God loves you even though the divorce was finalized
• God loves you even though you can’t stop thinking about your past 
• God loves you even though you rejected his love and sought to be religious to gain his approval
• God loves you even though you turned your back on him and ran as hard as you could

He loves you because you are his child (Romans 8:38-39) and the love he has for us is greater than anything we could imagine or fathom. When we try to describe his love we wind up saying really silly things like, “God, do you love me more than $18?” To which he replies, I love you more than you could ever imagine.

If you belong to Jesus, God’s love for you is more powerful than the sin that seems to haunt you.

Unbelievable Love

God gave his Son to pay for our sins—that’s unbelievable love! If someone told me it would take the life of my daughter to pay for your sins, sorry, you would be in hell. But God, in his mercy, sent Jesus to absorb his wrath in our place. Not because we deserved it, but because of his unbelievable love (Romans 5:6-8).

His love causes me to be in awe of him; how he could love me not because of who I am, but in spite of who I am, and love me more than my greatest sin?

 

This post is adapted from Perry Noble's blog

 

« Newer Older »