“And we have known and believed the love
that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God,
and God in him.” – 1 John 4:16
According to
IPAC: “A light-year is the distance that light travels in 1 year.
Since light has a speed of 186,000 miles per second (light can travel about 7
times around the entire earth in 1 second!), light travels about
5,865,696,000,000 miles in just one year. The farthest that Hubble has seen so
far is about 10-15 billion light-years away.” (http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/ask/284-How-far-can-the-Hubble-Space-Telescope-see-)
The description above is what is
known to us as the observable universe.
The part of the universe we can see, and mind blowing thing is there is
no indication that it stops there. For
all we know there is unobservable universe that continues far beyond our
limited understanding. This is God’s
love, so vast and unending that we cannot even begin to comprehend it. This is God’s love toward us, over us, and if
we want it to be: in us.
Jesus often referred to God as his
Father, even at the risk of his life (to the Jews, making yourself equal with
God was considered blasphemy punishable by death). In my opinion he did this for at least two
reasons, the first was simply because God was his Father, and the second was to
underscore the message that God would be a Father to all who come unto
him. God loves us, he desires fellowship
with us, and he sent his Son to die for us.
Before you and I were born God had predestined love toward us, and over us. Saint or sinner, the love of God and the
blood of Christ will be toward you and for you.
It is in his nature, for God is love.
This kind of love is marginally reflected in the love between a good parent
and their children. We see it in
humanity and we see it nature. A goose
will fight and die for her goslings; and you better believe a sane Mother will
do the same. A majority of children come
into this world with a love toward them that they were predestined to simply
because they were birthed to a good mother and a good father (our prayers and
help need to be toward those who do not have this). The parental love is toward them and over them,
however it is not in them. Furthermore, I
am convinced that there are something in life that you cannot fully understand
until you have experience it; and the love a parent has for their child is one
of them. If you were blessed to have
loving parents then you know what it is like to have a Father and Mother who
loves toward you and over you, but unless you are a parent, you cannot truly
know what it is like to have a parental love in you. However (as I am told), once you are a parent,
the instant you are; you then have that love in you. In a moment, the second you lay eyes on your
new baby, that love is there within you.
It is a perfect love, a complete love, and it only grows. When a son becomes a father or a daughter a
mother, a new dimension of love is introduced within; love that was once only
experienced without.
God went the extra mile with His
creation. He loved toward us, over us,
and committed His love to us. His desire
was to bring His love to us and put it within us. Saint or sinner, you can understand the
Father’s love over you if you desire to.
However, only those who are born again, those who have that new man
birthed within can truly know what it is like to have the love of God within. When something that great and wonderful finds
its way into your heart it fundamentally changes who you are. You treat your wife different, your kids
different, your neighbor, your job, your trials and tribulations; it is the
best thing in life because it brings within you the best thing in life. I thank God that he didn't just want us to
know we were love, he wanted us to know love; His love. He want us to know the Holy Spirit in us, which
is Christ in us, that is God in us, and therefore His love in us; and where God
is there is no sin.
