HE LOVES ME
Ok, ladies, admit it...you too spent some youthful moments
in the backyard pluckin' the petals off of a daisy or dandelion hoping to learn
if the guy you had your latest crush on really liked you or not. Unless you
found some creative method to assure better odds, like getting distracted with
three petals left and starting up at "he loves me", the odds were
only 50/50 that you'd get the answer you hoped for.
This mixed media collage canvas piece that I created
recently depicts a powerful promise from our Lord and Savior.
"This is LOVE, not that we
loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for
our sins." 1 John 4:10
The daisy of God's love is a sure deal - 100% guarantee that
HE loves us. And to prove it, he sent Jesus to die on the cross for me and you
(a.k.a. sinners).
"Very rarely will anyone die
for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to
die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still
sinners, Christ died for us. Since we have now been justified by his blood, how
much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him! Romans 5:7-9
And as a believer in Christ and in his atoning sacrifice and
resurrection, this assurance is priceless and worth reminding myself of often.
"For I am convinced that
neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the
present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything
else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in
Christ Jesus our Lord."
Romans 8:38-39
I hope that the next time you see a daisy or a dandelion
that you are reminded that the God of the Universe loves "you"...yes
even you!
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