May 16
Profound but Simple Truth
I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn you.
Jeremiah 31:3 (NKJV)
Love covers all transgressions.
Proverbs 10:12 (NAS)
Last Sunday was a great day at church. Not only did we have positive attendance numbers—numbers we hadn't seen in awhile—but we also had an incredible time worshipping God as an entire congregation. And do you know what the highlight of our worship experience was? It was when the children came forward and led us in singing that old favorite, Jesus Loves Me. Up they came, some shy, some exuberant. Pointing, waving, or cowering behind a friend. They began in their tiny but happy soprano. Soon, all across the auditorium, every voice was proclaiming it, and every heart was into it. It was profound but simple truth for all of us.
Profound but Simple Truth
I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn you.
Jeremiah 31:3 (NKJV)
Love covers all transgressions.
Proverbs 10:12 (NAS)
Last Sunday was a great day at church. Not only did we have positive attendance numbers—numbers we hadn't seen in awhile—but we also had an incredible time worshipping God as an entire congregation. And do you know what the highlight of our worship experience was? It was when the children came forward and led us in singing that old favorite, Jesus Loves Me. Up they came, some shy, some exuberant. Pointing, waving, or cowering behind a friend. They began in their tiny but happy soprano. Soon, all across the auditorium, every voice was proclaiming it, and every heart was into it. It was profound but simple truth for all of us.
Is there anything as wondrous or awe inspiring as the love of God? Someone once said, If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it! I believe it. I don’t understand it, but I truly do believe it. God loves us! Isn’t that the best news you’ve ever heard?
No doubt a lot has been written and said about love in general ... in poetry, in movies, and in books. We sing of it, we declare it, and we dream of it. We fall into it, we agonize over it, and we fight about it. It preoccupies our minds, and yet we don’t understand it—and that’s just human love. When we consider God’s love ... well now, that’s overwhelming!
What we do understand is that no matter how rotten we’ve been, how low we’ve sunk, or what we’ve been through, God still loves us! And that will never change. Amazing.
It is profound. It is simple.
Others agree. In 1962, an American reporter asked Karl Barth, the great Swiss theologian, how he would summarize the essence of the millions of words he had published. How do you think this incredibly bright and influential theologian responded? Without hesitation, Barth said, “Jesus loves me this I know for the Bible tells me so.”
No truth is simpler than this; no truth is more profound. And this is the truth I embrace. This is God’s truth ... for all of us.
Father God, bring all to this understanding: “For God so loved the world....” Amen.
No doubt a lot has been written and said about love in general ... in poetry, in movies, and in books. We sing of it, we declare it, and we dream of it. We fall into it, we agonize over it, and we fight about it. It preoccupies our minds, and yet we don’t understand it—and that’s just human love. When we consider God’s love ... well now, that’s overwhelming!
What we do understand is that no matter how rotten we’ve been, how low we’ve sunk, or what we’ve been through, God still loves us! And that will never change. Amazing.
It is profound. It is simple.
Others agree. In 1962, an American reporter asked Karl Barth, the great Swiss theologian, how he would summarize the essence of the millions of words he had published. How do you think this incredibly bright and influential theologian responded? Without hesitation, Barth said, “Jesus loves me this I know for the Bible tells me so.”
No truth is simpler than this; no truth is more profound. And this is the truth I embrace. This is God’s truth ... for all of us.
Father God, bring all to this understanding: “For God so loved the world....” Amen.
posted by Craig Soderquist at 10:40 PM
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