How He loves

Well, I know it's been a little while-
but I spent the last two weeks at the beach.

However, these eyes of mine have seen quite a lot-
and this mind, well it's been reeling.

The beach always has a way of putting things into perspective for me.
I'm not sure why,
but I can sit on the beach and stare out into infinity for hours and hours and just simply be reminded of the endless possibilities of the gracious and good God we serve.
It just makes the things I worry about seem smaller and the things I dream about so much bigger.

However, this past week I woke up one morning to some startling information.
12 killed and 58 injured...
A massacre...
A monster...
A nation in shock...
As you realize, I am talking about the shooting in Colorado.
My brain and my heart where having a hard time working together to try to process this all.
To feel it and be rational with it all, and still try to remain objective.
I didn't understand a lot, nor did I say a lot.
Then proceeded to pour a bowl of cocoa puffs.

Well, it happened to rain a little more that day and we went shopping at some of the outlets.
I stumbled upon this frame with the verse written on it from 1 John 4:19 stating
"We love because He first loved us."
I automatically loved the frame and thought about what it was really meaning.
Of course my mind went to several people and several cute pictures that I could see in that frame,
So- I bought it and went on about my business.

A few days later I was sitting waiting to go eat dinner and that verse hit me like a ton of bricks-
He loves us endlessly.
He loves us extravagantly.
He loves us despite, well us.
He loves James Holmes, the man who killed all of these people-
just as much as He loves me,
just as much as He loves you.

Now I am not trying to minimize the events that happened in that theater or the pain that those people and those families feel- because I can't fathom it.
But to think that Yahweh, the King of my heart and the lover of my soul-
loves me despite my countless, continuous flaws and failures,
loves all of us despite of ourselves and what we could ever do.
Always. Unending. Forever. Eternally.
It's a thought that can wreck you of anything you have ever pondered.
It did me, and it still does as a write this.


I have to sit and wonder-
What this world would look like if it could be violently wrecked with the revelation of the love of Jesus?
What would our lives look like if we could live out the knowledge of the matchless love of Jesus?

It would start a revolution.
A love revolution.


It would change the world.

Oh, how He loves us.
How He loves us, so.



Praying so much for the love of Jesus to flood the families in Colorado and comfort them in a way that only a Savior could. A love so undeniable. A love so uncontainable. A love that brings peace. Praying also for James Holmes and for the same undeniable, uncontainable, peace bringing love to flood the corridors of his heart.