How He Loves

Well, today I got back from High Sierra Scholarship Camp and what a week it was. It was filled with emotion, learning, meeting new friends, reuniting with old ones, and just basking in the love of Christ. This week was literally saturated with the revealing of God to me and his undeniable, unfailing love. Words will never express the awesomeness and power of God.

Anyways, one of the most cool things about it was the people, as always. Having that many Christians in one place united for the same cause is just flat-out breathtaking. Almost everyone had the same mindset and heartset as you did, and that feeling...is indescribably incomparable to anything else I've ever experienced. I've been to mission trips and "mountain-top" trips before but never have I felt the presence of God amongst so many believers to this potency. The last night made this fact the most evident. Basically, on this night, all the high school campers would gather around the bonfire and talk about what God did in their lives during the week. After a few would give their testimonies, the worship team would come up and sing a song or two followed by more testimonials. One of these songs was one of my favorites...How He Loves. This song has so much emotion and heartache poured into it and you really feel it full blast. It gets you thinking about the true love of Christ and how unbelievably amazing it really is. It is unthinkable. It is incomparable. It is unconditional. It is nothing you have ever experienced before. When we sang that song, visions of what Christ went through for us went through my mind and I tried to comprehend what or why He did it all for us.

I have come to this conclusion. His love is beyond understanding. It is incomprehensible. How could it be when an infinite nature is so in love with finite beings? So what is love?

1 John 3:16-"¹⁶This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers." From what I have learned and experienced, love is something that seems to be very similar to grace. Grace is a free gift which we do not deserve (eternal life/children of God). In this way, love is something we do not deserve. None of us, no matter how important we may think we are, deserve to have someone die for us.

Romans 3:23-"For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God."

We always come up short, but through the death and resurrection of Christ that gap is bridged and our connection to Him is made possible.

1 John 4:18-19-"¹⁸There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.¹⁹We love because he first loved us."

Who possesses perfect love? Only our God above. It is He who takes our fear away and makes us fearless. It is He who takes the pain away to make our strife bearable. What a God and How He Loves Us!