LOVE AND MERCY

Most of us started life blessed with parents who loved us, no matter what trouble we got ourselves into. Parents may have been disappointed in us but forgave our youthful blunders and seemed to love us anyway. Sometimes we probably also disappoint our Heavenly Father. But we have been blessed with a heavenly Father who loves us in spite of our blunders and mistakes. One day He will welcome us into his loving arms. His mercy is as wide as the sea and His love is so boundless that we can’t begin to understand it. God truly blesses us with His love and mercy.

What then are we to say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not withhold his own son, but gave him up for all of us, will he not with him also give us everything else? Romans 8: 31-32

Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will hardship, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril or sword? .... No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. Romans 8: 35-37

For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8: 38-39

Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 1 John 4: 7-11

Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good. His love endures forever. Give thanks to the God of gods His love endures forever. Give thanks to the Lord of lords, for his steadfast love endures forever...Psalm 136: 1-3

Pastor Lynette