Outrageous Love

"O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good; His love [mercy] endureth forever" - Ps 136:1

I was overwhelmed by the magnitude and resilience of God's love for us - especially because I know many a times my love for certain people has faded after and argument or when they just seemed to stop caring.
God wants to love on us. He wants us to immerse ourselves in His abundant and plentiful love.... It is so abundant it can never and will never run out (i'm not trying to quantify love here, but i'm simply trying to put things into perspective here).
It's impossible for God to stop loving us because He is LOVE. Everything that comes from God is love:

 The rising sun,

The shining stars,

The raging seas,

The wildebeest in the wild,

The laughter of a child...

 All these things and more are but a glimpse of God's love for us. Think about it this way: He loves us so much, He placed us far enough from the sun so we wouldn't burn up yet close enough for us to be sustained. WOW! If that's not amazing enough, consider this: He knows us all by name - all 6 billion odd of us (how many people do you know by name...and not only that, but their address, their birthday, their number, their family, their habits.... everything?). He knows the number of hairs on our head - all 6 BILLION odd of us. And He's watching us all the time so much that when even one hair falls off, He smiles within Himself and says "OH... My son/daughter wouldn't be too happy if they knew about that one too...". Hahahahaha.... Praise God.
If still that's not good enough then try this: 2000 odd years ago, a man - the only SON OF GOD -  bruised and battered hung on a cross in pain, anguish and loss.... His body ached everywhere, His tongue was parched, His head throbbing from thorns digging into His skull.... Blood flowing out of His body like a river, holes in His wrists and feet, disgrace upon Him as the insults of those who wanted Him dead reached His ears.... worst of all, THE EYES OF THE FATHER GOD TURNED AWAY FROM HIM!
If that's not pure, true and awesome love.... Actually it is not. It is far more than that, if one cannot but marvel at it, woe to them.

That was a gesture of love.... one that cannot and should not be forgotten nor appreciated.
On the Cross, Jesus died to display first and foremost Gods love for us.... That love that has been there for all days and will be there for eternity. What will be our reaction?                                       1 John 4 : 10

If God were sitting across you right now and was watching you read about this account of His ultimate Gift, what would your reaction be? Here's mine:

" You demonstrated Your outrageous love for me 

when arms spread wide,

feet nailed for dead wood,

a head bearing a crown of thorns,

flesh torn apart,

marrow exposed,

spirit tormented,

the eyes of the Father cast away...

You, the defensible Prince of Peace,

were subjected to the cruelest and vilest form of punishment and crime...

You, the Lover of my soul,

bore it all in Love...

You hung there expressing the divine love that brings me now to your feet,

in lyrical adoration,

devout in my passion,

outrageous in my expression...."

Taken from a poem I co-wrote with a dear friend and beloved daughter of God

" I can never express nor explain it... Neither will I ever fully fathom God's love for me but I worship Him for WHO HE IS..."