Happy Valentine's Day! Today I'm going to talk about love which is a pretty trending topic right now being "the day of love" and all. But I'm going to talk about a different love. A reckless, overwhelming, never-ending love. I'm sure a lot of you who listen to worship music has heard "Reckless Love" by Bethel Music and if you haven't, I ten out of ten recommend it. Music is how I connect, understand, and learn. It's my language. This song describes the kind of love that never goes away. The love we should all come to know first. Here's the first verse "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" God formed us in our mother's womb, He knew us before the world knew us. He loved us before we loved Him. Here's the chorus "Oh the overwhelming, never-ending, reckless love of God Oh it chases me down, fights 'till I'm found, leaves the ninety-nine I couldn't earn it, I don't deserve it, still You give Yourself away Oh the overwhelming, never-ending, reckless love of God" His love is overwhelming and indescribable. It passes our understanding and is never-ending. No matter what we do His love never stops. It's reckless. Reckless as in unheeding. He never stops pursuing. He chases us down and seeks us out even if we don't know it. He fights to win us over and find who we really are in Him. He leaves the ninety-nine. Matthew 18:12 "What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will He not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off?" If we're all following Him and one of us wanders off and loses sight of Him, He will come looking for us to bring us back. This love He shows us is something we can't earn. He's God and He's perfect, there's nothing we could do. He just loves us. We don't deserve it. We're sinners and we've all fallen short from the glory of God. He shows us forgiveness when we think we don't deserve it. Maybe we don't deserve this amazing love He shows us but He loves us anyway because we are His children. We don't deserve any of this but Jesus still died for us and gave Himself away for us. Because He loved us so much He died so we could enter Heaven to be with Him. It's overwhelming. It's never-ending. It's what love really is. Here's verse two "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" When I was against You, when I doubted You, when I didn't believe. You still fought to win me over. Your love conquered death. When I was against You, You were still for me. When I felt no worth, when I was at my lowest times, when I thought no one loved me, You did the unthinkable. The greatest display of love. You lost Your only son. You died for me. You paid for all my sins and by Your stripes (wounds) I am healed. Because You see us as worthy. There's nothing you won't do to get to us. Your love is immeasurable. And now the bridge "There's no shadow You won't light up Mountain You won't climb up Coming after me There's no wall You won't kick down Lie You won't tear down Coming after me" The darkness doesn't effect Him. There's no shadow no darkness He won't light up. There's no limit to height He's willing to go for us. There's not a wall we could put up He won't kick down to get to us. There's no lie someone tells us He won't tear down. No lie we believe about ourselves or have been told. Nothing will stand in His way of the love He has for you! Celebrate this love today and everyday Love you all! This was a collaboration with five other girls! Go check out there different topics for Valentine's day linked below
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The word "Christian" gets tossed around a lot nowadays. People who say they are Christian but don't live or act like it. There's too many people like that out there. What if we took the word Christian away? What would we as believers call ourselves? Back in day, over 2,000 years ago the first followers of Jesus were called just that, followers of Jesus. I know they had other names but this is the base of them all. Matthew 4:18-22 talks about when He saw Peter and Andrew and then later James and John, He said "Follow Me" and they dropped what they were doing and followed Him. We say we are Christians, but do we follow Him? We are supposed to thrive to be like Jesus. Preaching the gospel, healing others, showing kindness, and the list goes on and on. But we forget. The world has hidden the meaning of being a true Christian, we've given it our own meaning to fit our needs and make it easy. The disciples were first called Christians in Acts 11:26 in Antioch. Being a Christian is so much more than labeling ourselves with that name. It's remembering we're followers of Christ. We're here to be a light, to show people the Way, the Truth and the Life. Sometimes we have to reflect on ourselves and the things we do to make sure it's lining up with His will. The world can be distracting and people can lead you down the wrong roads but God gave us the Bible as navigation through everything. The Bible is vital and it shows us who Jesus is and how to be true followers of Him. I recommend starting in New Testament or even re-reading the first four books and studying them to learn and refresh our minds. I hope this got you thinking and maybe helped a bit :) I hope to be posting again here soon. See you later! To stay more connected and for more content follow some of these medias My main Christian Instagram account
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