How Strong a Love

~ sweetdeedyer

When my son was born, I thought my heart would explode.

I had never, in my entirety felt a love so strong, so powerful; it came over me in a wave and has not ceased crashing since it began. It is completely out of my control and unconditional. 

For the first time in my life, I have a glimpse of what unconditional love means.

When Jesus went to the cross, He displayed His unconditional love for humankind. But what about God the Father?

He chose to allow his only Son to take on the sin of the world, to die a horrible human death, to save all of humanity… Oh, but what of His heart?? 

There is not a chance on this earth I would ever think of letting my son do something like that. Even if it was to save all of humanity, I don’t think I could part with him. I believe this shows my humanness.

How strong a love must it have been for God the Father to give up His son in this way?

Looking at Easter in this light makes me shudder.

Tears sting my eyes as I think of God the Father losing his son and Jesus losing His life, all to save me.

To save you

The cost was so great, but to Him, we are worth it.

Go into this Easter weekend with praise, knowing that we are worth dying for, just as we are, covered in our sins and wrongdoings, because “God demonstrates his own love for us in this: while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” -Romans 5:8

All praise be to God!

“But because Jesus did rise from the dead, every glorious sunrise (even the early ones) marches forward and points us to look ahead to the day that is coming, which will be the end of darkness forever. On that day we will all see our Savior face-to-face with no more doubting or lukewarm affections or soul sluggishness. Then we will call each other to worship God forever and ever, saying, ‘To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor and glory and might forever and ever!’ (Rev. 5:13b)” -Gloria Furman

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3 thoughts on “How Strong a Love”

  2. Your comments are so true and honoring to both the Father and His Son. Your message portrays the essence of the Fathers FIRST LOVE for His Son Jesus Christ being spread over and upon each of His adopted children as God’s Plan A for humanity to become restored in Union and Fellowship with our Lord God. The FIRST LOVE of God for Jesus was gifted to us on Calvary over 2,000 years ago where, as Paul said, " I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God Who loved me and gave Himself up for me". Galatians 2:20. Graham Cooke describes this as a love Oreo cookie, where we are the filling and the Father’s First love for Jesus and Jesus’ s First love for His Father are the surrounding outside wafers of the cookie. As Jesus said to Peter when he correctly answered the inquiry of " Who do you say that I am?", your blog post did not come from flesh and blood, but from the Holy Spirit. Bless you Proverbs 31:10 wife and Mother.

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