Unfathomable Love

Most of us, don't realize how much we're loved!
Whether it's love from another person, love from God, or both!
I'm one of those people. I go through the day, and I have to remind myself, and prove to myself, all day, that God loves me! In-spite of every sin I do, in-spite of every time I fall short. God Loves Me. In John 3:16 it says: "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him, should not perish but have ever lasting life."
Now I don't know about you, but I've spent a lot of time thinking about this verse. Unable to believe that it applies to me! I've taken this verse apart so many times, and I stop dead when it says "He gave His Only  begotten Son". Oh my word! Have you ever stopped to think about that! God, the creater of the universe! The creater of you! gave up His only Son, so that you could spend eternity with Him! Have you ever seen or expereiced a bran new daddy? Have you seen the look on their face? It is unexplainable! There is so much love and Joy, and that mans face! You know right then and there that that man would do anything to save this child from pain, or suffering. But God loved us so much, and He knew the only way for us to be saved from eternal death, was to give up His son. The one that He looked at and that unexplainable face flashed across His. He gave His ONLY son, so that we could spend eternity with Him! That just blows me away! I have a nephew, and even though He's not my child, I wouldn't put him through that! I mean it pains me just to punish him! I can't imagine how much pain God endured, so we could know His love! That, is just unfathomable to me! I can't beleive God would do that to save me! Alot of the time I think, "Well, He did that for everyone else, I wasn't on His mind when He made that decision, to give up His son." I have such a hard time beleiving that God loves me! personally, so whenever I think of that verse I've always come to this question. "God, if I were the only unsaved sinner left on this planet, would You come and die again, just for me"? Now, for me, to believe that God would do that for me....no. But when I look at other people, and see how much I love them, I'm reminded that God loves them infinity times the amount I do! and I can say without a doubt that God would do that for them! Because He loves them SO much. And I try to beleive that He would do that for me. Because I have friends, who love me! and they remind me, "God loves you so much more!"

I am so thankful for the people who love me! even though, I struggle to believe they love me. If I stop and think rationally about it. I can see that they love me. Even if it's just a teeny, tiny, bit. And God, loves me Infinity, times more!

 

The Being Within

The sixth commandment says “THOU SHALT NOT KILL”. This means you may not touch any living being with the intention of doing them harm. You may not harm any living being with the intention of ending its life.

One of the biggest questions about abortion today is how long is the “thing” inside the woman a “fetus” before it becomes a baby. A few years ago, we did not have the technology to enable a baby five months early to live. However, now in the year 2011 there have been a few cases of babies with paper thin skin, and a body only slightly bigger than a dollar bill, survive a premature birth. Technology has allowed us to see that a “fetus” is alive and breathing after only a couple of months, maybe less, in the womb of a mother. Technology has also shown us that this “fetus” can live outside of the womb as an individual entity.

Genesis 1:27 says “God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him...”

God created human beings in the perfect image of Himself. God creates human beings in the womb of a mother, in the image of Himself. When we were created, we were created with innocence, an undying love for God, and the perfection of His image. Adam and Eve were innocent. They were without flaw, and without sin. They were perfect. When Adam and Eve ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, they became subject to sin. They were no longer innocent. They had an understanding of right and wrong, and were no longer perfect. Because of this, they could no longer be with God, for where sin is, God cannot be.

After eating the fruit, all humans were cast out of the Garden. Both man and woman walked out of the Garden in sorrow, now bearing the toils of sin, and the pain of understanding. Even though God cast us out of the Garden, we are still made in His image. We are still part of His reflection, though now marred with sin. However, a baby is His perfect reflection. A baby is innocent and does not know good from evil, just as we were when God created man.

Will you consider the life of the thing inside you? Will you think about the innocence you are about to dismember? Will you consider the consequence of the ending being inside you, and the dangers it brings to yourself, before you commit a murder and a double sin? If technology continues to progress in the way it has, I wonder just how long it will take for our society and government to see that “a person's a person, no matter how small”. (Dr. Suess)