{"id":405,"date":"2009-01-27T06:00:20","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T13:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/dailyevotional\/archives\/405"},"modified":"2009-01-27T06:02:12","modified_gmt":"2009-01-27T13:02:12","slug":"the-love-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/the-love-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"“THE LOVE OF GOD!”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Romans 8:38-39<\/strong><\/p>\n

“For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As I was praying and meditating about what to write today, I began to think of the mighty love of God. There is nothing that we can ever do to merit His love. The only thing we can do is receive His offer of eternal salvation. After we have been born again we cannot merit His favor by what we do\u2014our obedience to His commands is part of our new spiritual life.<\/p>\n

I cannot think of any better way to express the majesty of God\u2019s love for us than the old hymn by L. M. Lehman, The Love of God. Here is what Mr. Lehman wrote about how the hymn came about:<\/p>\n

\u201cOne day, during short intervals of inattention to our work, we picked up a scrap of paper and, seated upon an empty lemon box pushed against the wall, with a stub pencil, added the (first) two stanzas and chorus of the song\u2026Since the lines (3rd stanza from the Jewish poem) had been found penciled on the wall of a patient\u2019s room in an insane asylum after he had been carried to his grave, the general opinion was that this inmate had written the epic in moments of sanity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prayerfully read the words:<\/p>\n

The love of God is greater far
\nThan tongue or pen can ever tell;
\nIt goes beyond the highest star,
\nAnd reaches to the lowest hell;
\nThe guilty pair, bowed down with care,
\nGod gave His Son to win;
\nHis erring child He reconciled,
\nAnd pardoned from his sin.<\/p>\n

Refrain: O love of God, how rich and pure!
\nHow measureless and strong!
\nIt shall forevermore endure,
\nThe saints and angels\u2019 song<\/p>\n

When years of time shall pass away,
\nAnd earthly thrones and kingdoms fall,
\nWhen men, who here refuse to pray,
\nOn rocks and hills and mountains call,
\nGod\u2019s love so sure, shall still endure,
\nAll measureless and strong;
\nRedeeming grace to Adam\u2019s race\u2014
\nThe saints\u2019 and angels\u2019 song.<\/p>\n

Refrain<\/p>\n

Could we with ink the ocean fill,
\nAnd were the skies of parchment made,
\nWere every stalk on earth a quill,
\nAnd every man a scribe by trade,
\nTo write the love of God above,
\nWould drain the ocean dry.
\nNor could the scroll contain the whole,
\nThough stretched from sky to sky.<\/p>\n

Refrain<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Blessings dear hearts. Draw near to God today, trust Him completely and be a blessing!<\/p>\n

– – – Pastor Cecil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Romans 8:38-39 “For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” As I was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-romans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}