IRRESISTIBLE INVITATION

Conversations with the Pastor

Day 1: God’s Love is Amazing

GOD’S love is so amazing that very often he looks beyond our lack of response to his urging to do or not to do and helps us out of the consequences. His love is so amazing and tough at the same time that he commands that the exiles gather up their courage, in their wilderness, and build a highway for their God. For the next 40 days I would like to challenge you to build a HIGHway for our God. Take the courage to create a measure of space for exploring this Irresistible Invitation. Give it highest priority. And remember that regardless of what’s going on in your life God Loves YOU. When you are in a situation that leaves you overwhelmed and comfortless you have a God that loves you and who is completely committed to you.

Your mountains, and your mole hills, and all the business of the day cannot keep God from you. Those things might keep you for God but Paul says in Romans 8: Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?” We already have this assurance. As a matter of fact we are more than conquerors of all that we experience from day to day through him that loved us. “For I am convinced,” Paul continues, “that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, not powers, not height, not depth, not anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the [amazing] love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

What is it about God that makes his love so amazing? It’s not just a head thing or a heart thing. God loves us with the all the nature of God. We are told that:

And I told them of the hand of my God which had been upon me for good, and also of the words which the king had spoken to me. And they said, "Let us rise up and build." So they strengthened their hands for the good work. Nehemiah 2:18

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time: 1Peter 5:6

But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD. Genesis 6:8

For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the entire earth, to strengthen those whose heart is true to him. 2 Chronicles 16:9

The eyes of the LORD [are] upon the righteous, and his ears [are open] unto their cry. Psalm 34:15

And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the [son] of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfill all my will. Act 13:22

God uses his hands, his eyes, his heart and finally God uses his only Son, whom He loved, as a sacrifice, so that we might live better quality lives.

Do not fear to share yourself with the Lord for a few moments each day. God has your back.

Get yourselves up and build a highway. The faster you can have hope in God for the future the better the future looks and the more creative you can be in your present situation. Build a Highway for your God. Get him here quickly. It is urgent that Your God comes to your aid.

Is anything too hard for the LORD? “At the appointed time I will return to you, in the spring, and Sarah shall have a son.” Gen 18:14

Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. James 4:8

Consequently he is able for all time to save those who approach God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them. Hebrews 7:25

Don’t then just make space for God, make a Highway for the Lord by putting him first in your life today, everyday. Consequently he is able for all time to save* those who approach God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.