Hearts
rebuilt by divine Love
allow
pain to become peace.
There
is no escaping pain in this world.
Jesus
told us so Himself.
"In
this world you will have trouble and suffering,
but
take heart for I have overcome the world."
John
16:33
He
obviously didn't overcome the world
by
removing trouble and suffering.
He
overcame the world by incarnating
the
love of His Father.
"For
God so loved the world that He gave..."
His
love for us, in us and over us
protect
us from all trials we have in this life;
His
love is our "take heart" reason.
Paul
described the trouble and suffering as
life
and death, powers and principalities,
things
that are threatening and impending,
things
to come, heights and depths,
and
every sort of thing that can come at us.
None of
this fazes us because Jesus loves us.
I’m
absolutely convinced that nothing...
absolutely nothing can
get between us
and God’s
love because of the way
that Jesus
our Master has embraced us.
Romans
8:38-39
If
we could be persuaded by
revelation,
reason and experience
that
this one great truth is more real
than
the air we breathe,
then
"taking heart" would be our default.
Pain
doesn't separate us from His love;
pain
gets absorbed by His love.
His
banner over me was love,
for
love waved as a protecting and
comforting
banner over my head
when
I was near Him.
Song
of Solomon 2:4
His
banner of love is ever over us—
His
redeeming love, His everlasting love,
His
restoring, sanctifying, and atoning love.
His
love sets us free and delivers us from fear.
His
love is our life, our hope and our confidence.
We
are part of those armies of heaven
riding
behind the One named Faithful and True.
We
are carrying the same banner that He carries,
the
banner He carried on earth as in heaven.
The
banner with the word Love.
His
love heals every wound,
transforming
pain into peace.
In
a world flooded with trouble and suffering,
we
live under the banner of His love
that
we may demonstrate our union with Him.
At
this season, may we be persuaded that
absolutely nothing can
get between us
and
God’s love because of the way
that
Jesus our Master has embraced us.
As
His love rebuilds our hearts,
we then go out and help others see that
His divine love has
the power to transform
their pain and
allow it to become peace.
God is love and
He is the Prince of Peace.
He
is forever the reason
we can "take heart,"
and is exactly what the world
so desperately needs to know.
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