Loving God

Ephesians 3:17-19 (King James Version)
 17That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
 18May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
 19And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
      
       As the Body of Christ we must be grounded in the Love of our Lord and to discover the Love of God is an adventure that will last forever. The Love of God passeth our knowledge. I believe no one will ever know the fullness of God's love until we enter into his Kingdom.Through this verse is revealed the importance of being grounded and rooted in the love of God, to know the Love of Christ is to be filled with the fullness of God. It's very easy to seek the bi-products of God's Love to us, such as healing and prosperity and all the wonderful gifts God so loves and enjoys giving to us, that we miss out on the best relationship we could ever have. I always encourage anyone I talk to to just get to know the lord, psalms 34:8 says  taste and see that the Lord is good. Blessed is the man that trusteth in him (KJV). God doesn't need us to defend his Love, lead someone simply to the love of God, let them taste it themselves. I can tell someone how great Momma's potato salad is, but until they taste and see for their self they will never know what heavenly potato salad they are missing. Jude 1:21 (NIV) says, keep yourself in God's love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life. But how am I able to tell someone how great Momma's potato salad is if I've never eaten it myself? Momma has cooked it, it is made, everyone tells me how good it is, it sounds good, smells good, looks good, but I personally have no idea how good it is until I grab a spoon out of the drawer dip it into that potato salad and shove a big heaping spoonful of heaven in my mouth. Now that I've tasted it I'm calling all my friends telling them, "Come over to my house Momma made her potato salad, it's incredible, come get some of it for yourself". You see it's important that we know the love of God for ourselves. We can hear about it all day, but until we've discovered it for ourselves we truly don't know. The only way we can spread the gospel is through the love of God. It's the only thing the world cannot attempt to counterfeit, Godly love. Plenty of people believe in something 100% and will try to persuade you to believe like them but it is never done in complete Godly love, because it can't be, the only group of people that have been blessed with the ability to show agape love is the Christians. We're the only ones with that ability and we only love Him because he first loved us, amen. (1 John 4:19 KJV). A major thing separating us from the world is God's love through us, and when we preach the gospel this must be our heart rather than, "I'm right, you're wrong, you're going to Hell, and I'm not". Thats not how Jesus did it and Jesus is the sole expression of God (Hebrews 1:3). For God so LOVED the world that he gave his only begotten son (john 3:16). Nothing can separate us from the love of God.
Romans 8:35-39 (King James Version)
 35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
 36As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
 37Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
 38For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
 39Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Nothing can separate us from the love of Jesus Christ, amen. Nothing the world can say or do, or nothing we can say or do, because God's love is in Christ Jesus, not in our works, but in Christ and his finished work (verse 39). In verse 35 this word love literally means, "The attitude of God towards his son", love not drawn out by any excellency in it's object. Praise God! his love isn't based on anything i have done or can do, it's love not drawn out by my excellency, but by Christs excellency, amen. I get the same love God gives Jesus for nothing at all. God's Love has made us more then conquerors, I don't know about you but being more than a conqueror sounds pretty good. I didn't even have to fight but I get to enjoy all the spoils and riches. In verse 37 this love means, "Love in its perfect participle form". Now that's awesome, God is the only one with perfect love, and it's ours to have, and we can't be separated from it. Man being blessed with the love of God just makes you want to pour it out to the world, amen. God's Love is endless and eternal, and Incredible to discover. I encourage you today to taste and see that the LORD IS GOOD.