Today I've been contemplating the love of God. It is always a reality, but some days it just HITS you. Like the popular song "how he Loves" describes it---like His love is a hurricane, and I am but a tree....
Actually it reminds me of Japan last year. When we were in Fukuoka, there was one day where our team decided to walk to this mall about 25 minutes away. Before we left, we heard that it was supposed to rain, and brought several umbrellas with us..... Little did we know how much we would need these. Upon leaving the mall, we saw it----full-fledged rainstorm. I have never seen rain like that in my life. I think we each had an umbrella, but that didn't stop us from getting soaked. There was about 3 inches of water on the street, the rain was blowing sideways, and all the Japanese people were running for cover, as our group happily waltzed home in the rain, singing to ourselves. As we were walking home I heard that small whispering voice of the Lord saying "Gwenjo, this is my love." Wow. You couldn't escape the rain at all, no matter how you held your umbrella.....the water was above you, pooling around your feet, soaking through your clothes. And that is His love for us! Wow. It leaves me speechless....
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...
Oh Love of God! How rich and pure
how measureless and strong
it shall forever more endure
the saints' and angels' song!
goose bumps.
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