A Bouquet of Love
He loves me he loves me not, he loves me……. did you ever play that game with the petals on a flower? A game where Love was left to chance....
I am Loved with a passion…..
Do you remember songs of the past?
All you need is love love…. Love is all you need
Love has filled the hearts and minds of people for all time
We each have a Deep desire to be loved we often do all we can to make someone notice us and love us. t
We often try to fit in to be loved
being willing to give up our true selves our own identity in order to fit in with the in crowd
Do you know or remember the great revival Hymn?
"Here is love vast as the ocean loving-kindness as the sea"
I for one love the ocean it is so deep and majestic so unfathomable so unknown so vast, it moves me to think that the God I worship is such a God of LOVE
Another of my favourite hymns is:-
"How deep the fathers love for me, how vast beyond all measure"
and one final one that I used to sing as a teenager.....
"Oh the deep, deep love of Jesus vast unmeasured boundless free"
A love without limits God is passionate about you
What is love ? I decided to take a quick look at a few aspects of such a deep LOVE:-
Aspects of love
Affirming love
We can walk in security knowing that we are loved with an everlasting love not a love resulting from certain behaviour or looks, there is no sense of having to attain to a specific standard before being loved…… I am loved of God and as he knows me through and through, I have nothing to hide I can be myself and be confident of His love
I don’t have to earn it….. I don’t have to impress
God has chosen to set his love on me this gives me a confidence to live
I am accepted as I am
This affirming love causes me to grow and become attractive to others
Protective love
I live under his banner under the shadow of his wing
His banner over me is love….. Song of Songs 2:4
Under the shadow of his wings Psalm 91
He hides me … there is a place of refuge in Him
In fact I cannot escape from this love… Romans 8 What can separate me…..
Psalm 139 where can I go from your presence…..
Creative love
A love that creates in me a clean heart
A love that perfects me
A love that enlarges be rather than locking me up
Corrective love bringing maturity
Psalm 94:12 blessed is the man you discipline o Lord, the man you teach from your law, you grant him relief from days of trouble…
Prov 3:12 the lord disciplines those he loves as a father the son he delights in,
Costly love chasing after us
Behold what manner of love …..
Psalm 139 where can I go from your presence…..
Consistent love
not subject to what we do or any moods
loved with an everlasting love I cannot make this love go away
"Oh love that will not let me go"
We live under love
I know I am loved regardless of what I do I am loved unconditionally
Knowing this makes me behave differently, live my life differently, no longer defensive but with a confidence
A love that gives us a name and an identity an authority
He Loved us enough to give us his name his authority
He has taken me to his banqueting hall psalm 23 he has prepared a table before me in the presence of my enemies…… personal private enemies…. Don’t need outside enemies enough within…
The table of the Lord place of intimate communion where we take in of Christ what we eat and drink has an effect on us come to the table of the lord and allow him to have an effect in us that will create an outward flow
A love that brings forth
