The Love. The Holiness. The Grace.

God is love.
Therefore, everything God does is out of love for us.
He is incapable of acting otherwise.
Because it would be entirely outside of his nature.
There is such a balance...
between his love for us as people and his intolerance of the sin we commit.
When you realize how holy and set apart God is, that he cannot even coexist with sin...
it makes you realize how awesome the grace is.
How amazing his mercy truly is.
Because he has completely eradicated the sin from us, when we say "yes" to Him.
He could have chosen to smite all of us.
It would have been the easier way.
But he didn't.
Because easy isn't his thing.
He does everything with excellence.
EVERYTHING is intentional!
He is such a personal Person!
He could so simply open up the realms so that heaven literally invades earth without our consent-- but he chooses to showcase his glory through us!
Because he knows how much of a blessing and an honor it is to be a vessel... and he wants to teach us how to be his Body here on earth.
He wants to draw us into relationship with Him, and teach us how much better life is with Him at the helm.
When we let go of the control, and let Him shake out all the religion in us.
And all the impurity.
And all the unbelief.
Til there is nothing left but Him and His reality.




And we still choose to believe that there are certain areas of our life that are outside of God's control or interest?
Get Real.

Psalm 42:8

By day, the Lord directs His love; at night, his song is with me-- a prayer to the God of my life.

Joel 2:13

Rend your heart and not your garments. Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and he relents from sending calamity.

Romans 8:39

For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the presence nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to seperate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

1 John 4:16

And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.