The past few days I have had my mind on the subject of the word “Big”. I wrote a post on my personal blog a few weeks ago but wanted to share it with all of our readers on Dive Deep because I believe this is something that God wants to stir in us.
God Bless,
Kyle
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Big. Funny how such a small word could talk about something well… Big. But it does. It seems that I could say that Big is not truly a word that adequately describes something that is large. The word itself seems to be a parodox because it is actually quite small.
As I sit in my favorite place to blog (the back porch) I can look out and see the vastness of the clear sky over the glow of my laptop computer screen. My it looks beautiful tonight. Even though yet again I am being attacked by bugs it is totally worth it to sit and enjoy nature. It makes me think that beautiful is quite an inadequate word to describe the beauty that I get to have a front seat unimpeded view to. Just stopping to listen and look fills me with a childlike awe. Even as I took the trash to the road I was walking back just starting at the sky.
I started to think, hey, God made all this. Not just for any reason, but for us. Yep, he made this for little old us. I can’t even see all the stars but I know there are millions of them, each put in their place by God for us. That is how much he loves us, that he would create an entire stage of beauty for us to sit on the front row of the audience and just stare.
Recently the subject of God’s love has been on my mind. He loves you and I so much. But again, there isn’t any word to truly show how much God loves us which shows us how much he loves us. He wants us to live in his will and worship him, and in him we are complete (due to popular culture’s belief). He is the One who created everything just for us. Thats cool to think about, awesome actually. But I will never fully comprehend the love of God for me, not until I arrive face to face with him.
I don’t understand God, but I don’t think anyone does. I just know that just as there are mysteries in the Heavens, God is the same, but at the same time he is fully logical and understandable, just more than my 21 year old developed brain can comprehend. God is so big. I mean like REALLY REALLY BIG. I mean, check out the earth, its small compared to him and I think the earth is huge.
God is big and he is Love. And his love is never ending. Wow. Just sit in that for a few minutes. His love never ends. I feel like a child and I just want to sit and let my mouth hang open at that.
And the part I love to death is that even if we don’t love him, HE STILL LOVES US JUST AS BIG. Yep, you can shut him out, walk away from him, turn to another path, and he still loves you. It is his desire not to allow anyone to perish, he never turns his back on us. He can’t, we are all his kids. But just as some children chose a different path than their parents would chose, God has to allow us to make our own decision. Love is a choice, not an obligation. So we are allowed to wander, much to the sorrow of our creator, but he rejoices when we come back to him.
God’s love is never ending, no matter what. To the atheist, the Christian hater, the terrorist, the unwanted, the unknown, the lost, the confused, and anyone else, God loves you. That truly makes me smile, because its pure truth. God’s love is not given out of meeting a list of requirements or following a bunch of rules. God’s love is given because he loves us. Simple, yet our little human brain can’t understand it. And God’s love isn’t like earthly love, its pure.
Furthermore, God does not only love us, but he is love itself. He came up with the big idea of love from day one. He knows everything there is about love, pure love. He didn’t have to go to a class or figure it out, he is.
So we have to begin to know our creator if we are ever going to love big. We have to press into Him to love others. If you want to learn something you have to get to know about who created it. To be good in a subject, you have to study it and be around it. To learn how to love, you have to be in fellowship with Love, who is God. Even if you have never experianced love, you can learn how to love by loving God. Become lost in his vast ocean of love. Yeah, you might have to doggy paddle for a while, but soon you will learn to swim and then you will be able to love better.
So love. God loves us. He is big but that isn’t a good word to describe him. He is Love. He loves us, no matter what, all we have to do is love him back. Everything else falls into place.
Life is not about looking for shelter from the rain, its about standing out in the middle of the pouring down rain with our hands held skyward falling to our knees. Its about accepting that we are loved and we can’t understand, comprehend, nor reciprocate it. Learn how to worship, how to draw closer to God through following him, and love comes naturally.
Dive Deep,
Kyle
