God's Love

The Lord has been teaching me so much about His love and His grace the past few weeks. One thought I was mulling over is how we are called to love as Christ loved. Jesus was whipped, beaten, spit on and crucified by the ones he created. The ones he loved the most and were so dear to His heart. He WILLINGLY went to the cross. Can you imagine not only the physical pain but the emotional pain as well?
The only way that Christ finally died (physically) was when the Father turned his back. It was when God forsook him that He died and since Jesus is God, this shows that God forsook himself on behalf of the human race. He forsook himself to show his love. He forsook himself to shed his blood. And In scripture we are called to love and God has loved us. We are called to forgive as Christ has forgiven us. WOW. I don't know about you but that renders me speechless and totally inadequit. And thats a good place to be. God's love is so big and so great that I can't even begin to think about loving somone else like that. Thats where the Holy Spirit comes in. If I yeild to Christ, who lives in me, he will manifest his own life through me. Galatians 2:20 says, " I have been crucified with Christ, it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me."
I am nothing apart from HIm.

Another thought that came to mind as I was typing this out was that Christ died because the Father forsook him. That shows the relationship that Christ had with the Father. They were so one that Christ died without Him. Shouldn't our reliance on God look the same? That we would died with out the Father?

I challenge you to dig into this. To dig into the love of God in the Word of God. He loves you. Experience it. Live in it. Dwell there. There is no better place to be.