WEDNESDAYS DEVOTION :)

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FROM: THE SEARCH FOR SIGNIFICANCE DEVOTIONAL

BY ROBERT S. MCGEE

THE FATHOMLESS LOVE OF CHRIST

FOR I AM CONVINCED THAT

NEITHER DEATH, NOR LIFE, NOR

ANGELS, NOR PRINCIPALITIES,

NOR THINGS PRESENT, NOR

THINGS TO COME, NOR POWERS,

NOR HEIGHT, NOR DEPTH, NOR

ANY OTHER CREATED THING,

SHALL BE ABLE TO SEPARATE US

FROM THE LOVE OF GOD, WHICH

IS IN CHRIST JESUS OUR LORD.

___________________ROMANS 8:38-39

WHO CAN MEASURE THE FATHOMLESS DEPTH OF LOVE THAT SENT CHRIST TO THE

CROSS? WHILE WE WERE THE ENEMIES OF GOD, CHRIST AVERTED THE WRATH WE

DESERVED SO THAT WE MIGHT BECOME THE SONS OF GOD.

WHAT CAN WE SAY OF OUR HOLY HEAVENLY FATHER? SURELY, HE DID NOT

ESCAPE SEEING CHRIST'S MISTREATMENT AT THE HANDS OF SINFUL MEN---THE

SCOURGINGS, THE HUMILIATION, THE BEATINGS. SURELY, HE WHO SPOKE THE

WORLD INTO BEING COULD HAVE DELIVERED CHRIST FROM THE ENTIRE ORDEAL. AND

YET, THE GOD OF HEAVEN PEERED DOWN THROUGH TIME AND SAW YOU AND ME.

THOUGH WE WERE HIS ENEMIES, HE LOVED US AND LONGED TO RESCUE US FROM OUR

SINS, AND DESIGNATED THE SINLESS CHRIST TO BECOME OUR SUBSTITUTE. ONLY

CHRIST COULD AVERT GOD'S RIGHTEOUS WRATH AGAINST SIN, SO IN LOVE, THE

FATHER KEPT SILENT AS JESUS HUNG FROM THE CROSS. ALL OF HIS ANGER, ALL

OF THE WRATH WE WOULD EVER DESERVE, WAS POURED UPON CHRIST, AND CHRIST

BECAME SIN FOR US (2 CORINTHIANS 5:21). BECAUSE HE PAID THE PENALTY FOR

OUR SINS, AND GOD'S WRATH WAS AVENGED, GOD NO LONGER LOOKS UPON US

THROUGH THE EYES OF JUDGEMENT, BUT INSTEAD, HE NOW LAVISHES HIS LOVE

UPON US. THE SCRIPTURES TEACH THAT ABSOLUTELY NOTHING CAN SEPARATE US

FROM GOD'S LOVE (ROMANS 8:38-39). HE HAS ADOPTED US INTO A TENDER,

INTIMATE, AND POWERFUL RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM (ROMANS 8:15).

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WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO " LAVISH LOVE " ON SOMEONE?

DO YOU SENSE THAT GOD LAVISHES HIS LOVE ON YOU? WHY OR WHY NOT?

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THANK YOU, GOD, FOR THE LOVE THAT YOU LAVISH ON ME. I FEEL . . .

GENTLEHUGS AND PRAYERS

SAM