The Love of God

God tells me "I LOVE YOU" every day, every moment. "And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose." So everything that happens to me is a gift from God and is good. I was listening to John Piper's "God is the gospel" sermon this morning and one of the things he was saying was that God uses all things in our lives to glorify Himself and, therefore to show us He loves us, since His glory is the most satisfying thing for our soul. Sometimes it's hard to see that. But i realized that's just me lacking faith in the promises of God. And it usually happens when i don't delight in one of His greatest gifts to me: His Word, that feeds me, washes me and puts me back on the right track. "His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.".(2Peter 1:3-4) God loves me so much! He gave me the one thing that can truly satisfy my soul, which is the knowledge of Him and the revealing of His glory.

Yesterday was an amazing day. I was reading the first 3 chapters of Galatians in the morning and God just answered a lot of questions i had. After that, i was flying the whole day. I've done work with songs of praises in my head and went swimming in the evening. As i was walking home through the park, i saw a rainbow! A whole rainbow, over the sky, sitting on dark and very beautiful clouds. I've never seen such a perfect sky. I wanted to call everybody, but realized i'd forgotten my phone at home. The rainbow accompanied me the whole way home though. I was very excited and realized that had i walked the other way, i would have never seen the rainbow! When i got home, i grabbed my phone and my camera and went outside to make phone calls and take pictures. I was so loud on the phone that people were getting out of their houses and started looking at the rainbow and stopping other people in the street to look at it. It was great! Then i remembered Mrs Parker was sending an email about seeing a rainbow just a couple of days ago! Thinking that God planned all this to happen before creation blew my mind. It made me think of a parent who knows their child so well and can, at any point figure out what would get their kid excited!



"Could we with ink the ocean fill,
And were the skies of parchment made,
Were every stalk on earth a quill,
And every man a scribe by trade,
To write the love of God above,
Would drain the ocean dry.
Nor could the scroll contain the whole,
Though stretched from sky to sky."
(from "The Love of God" by F Lehman)

PS: Rainbow 2 days in a row!!