The Strengthening Of God's Love

 Before I spoke a word, You were singing over me, You have been so, so good to me, Before I took a breath, You breathed Your life in me, You have been so, so kind to me, Oh, the overwhelming, never-ending, reckless love of God, Oh, it chases me down, fights 'til I'm found, leaves the ninety-nine, I couldn't earn it, and I don't deserve it, still, You give Yourself away, Oh, the overwhelming, never-ending, reckless love of God, yeah, When I was Your foe, still Your love fought for me, You have been so, so good to me, When I felt no worth, You paid it all for me, You have been so, so kind to me, Oh, the overwhelming, never-ending, reckless love of God, Oh, it chases me down, fights 'til I'm found, leaves the ninety-nine, I couldn't earn it, and I don't deserve it, still, You give Yourself away, Oh, the overwhelming, never-ending, reckless love of God, yeah.

I'm Amazed That You Would Give Your Life For Me, You Bore The Weight Of Shame And Suffering.

It's Incredible, Astonishing, You Would Go To That Extreme, You Chose The Cross, You Paid The Cost.

Your Love Is Outrageous, It's A Love Beyond Belief, It Never Changes But I Know It's Changing Me.

For Your Goodness And Your Mercy, I Will Praise You Endlessly. Your Love Is Outrageous For Me.

I Don't Deserve Forgiveness But Your Kind, You Heal The Brokenness I Hold Inside. It's Incredible, Astonishing, I've Been Redeemed From Death To Life. A Heart Revived, Your Love Is Outrageous It's A Love Beyond Belief, It Never Changes But I Know It's Changing Me. For Your Goodness And Your Mercy, I Will Praise You Endlessly. Your Love Is Outrageous For Me.

I chose Cory Asbury's Reckless Love and Dave Langdon's song Outrageous Love because I wanted to share these two songs before going into the scriptures because I think it's important to understand that in Romans 5 verse 8 it says: While We Were Still Sinners, Christ Died For Us. You see in these two songs, we aren't focusing on God's Word being Outrageous or Reckless, we are focusing on His Wondrous Love, The Beauty of His Radiant Love for us because when you think about the lyrics from the first song, you see that before we spoke a word, and even took a breath, we were made in the Image of Christ because if you really think about that for a second, God loves us so much that He doesn't see His Children as Outrageous or Reckless, but He sees us as Beloved and Beautiful. 

The moments we take from the second song of I'm Amazed That You Would Give Your Life For Me, you see God sent His Son to die on the Cross, so that we could have everlasting and eternal life. His Son paid the price for our sins, so that we could be forgiven and what great it is to know that His Love Is Outrageous and what I mean with that is knowing that His Love is Radiant and Extravagant that It's A Greater Love Beyond Belief because it never changes but we know it changes us for the better.

We need to let our Hearts be Revived and we we need to praise Him Endlessly because God's Love is enough for us and every step we take, we know that God is changing our lives for the better of it all.

John 3:16-17- For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

1 John 3 verse 1- See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

John 15 verse 13-  Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.

Jeremiah 29 verse 11- For I Know The Plans I Have For You Declares The Lord, Plans To Prosper You And Not To Harm You But To Give You A Hope And A Future.

John 13 verse 34-35-  “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”

To me these last two things remind me of why I wanted to do this study, and why I felt it was important to share about God's Love for us because no matter what with the overwhelming and ever ending reckless love and outrageous love, we can go out into this world and share about His Unfailing Love that doesn't end because He is Love and because of that, we can count on the Love of God to be forever and He'll continue to Love us forever and always because no matter we go, we should want to as a Matthew West song title says: Love On The Radio, because that's what we should want to do. We should want to go out into the world and put His Love on the radio, we should want to show Love towards one another just as Christ has and continues to do for us and we should first and foremost want to spread God's Love to those we know and love but we should always want to spread His Love to those who may not know Christ and are longing for that relationship and looking for God's Unfailing Love.

I think even in the scriptures that this study can speak to the heart of many who are looking for that purpose and plan that God has for them, but also look into the heart of God's Love where He doesn't abandon us, but He strengthens us and equips us to do a good work in Him because without God we would have nothing and with the Love of God we know we have everything because just like in Sarah Kroger's Song Belovedness, she says: Beloved Believe, He died to make your heart His Home. That line for all of us, should be an indication as to why we need God's Love surrounding us in Hope, but also why we need God to help us show the kind of love to those around us even more because God gives us the strength and the ability to overcome in the kind of Love that He has for all of us as His Child.