The Love of God

Complete contentment and happiness in life is nothing compared to the love of God.

Contentment in all it's fullness is powerful, making a person confident, fulfilled and limitless. Able to just 'be'. And simply 'being' is a task that generations have yet to conquer. We have all been found guilty of striving, achieving, obtaining. 'Being' is beautiful. It fits us like no other state of mind or life could be tailored to. 'Being' is a matter of choosing today and not yesterday, not tomorrow. 'Being' means acceptance. Acceptance of situations. Acceptance towards people. Acceptance of bad and even of good. 'Being' is peace. It's an unsurpassable, unpredictable, incomprehensible ability to rest in wind, rest in rain, rest in sun and rest in storms.

Even this though, with all of the power it beholds cannot come close to the love of God.

Happiness is life-giving. It comes both easily and with great difficulty. Good coffee could make a person happy, so could a restored relationship, a new relationship, traveling, gifts, beauty.. the list continues forever. 

Even this happiness is nothing next to God's love. 

Love, His love, completely transforms lives. It forgives, renews, justifies, frees, disciplines, gives. Words just can't seem to embrace the magnitude of the love of God. I feel it in an instant, no matter where I am. It sits heavy on my chest and shoulders, making me just want to cry. And I do.

God's unconditional love sustains me. It carries me. It impacts eternities through me. It assures me that I can do all things. It makes me walk with my head held high when I need to and then at other times causes me to curl up on the floor like a child, because I need that too.

The love of God is perfect. Timeless.

The work here in Khon Kaen, Thailand is going incredibly. Yesterday I was able to lead a sweet woman to baptism in Holy Spirit out in a village and tonight I'll be preaching for a cell group of Thai and Chinese disciples. The SOS missionaries are wonderful too. I'm so blessed and in love with Jesus!