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Can We Ever Really Fathom God’s Love for Us?

6/3/2016

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Well, it’s been awhile since you heard from me, and I want to apologize for that. I’m busy working on my newest project, The Irrationality of Poetry, and have been absolutely consumed by this book. But as I was writing today, I became overwhelmed with the question that lies deep within the message of the book: what must it feel like to truly understand God’s love for us?

I’m not talking about knowing that Jesus loves us on some logical level, or even having it tucked away lightly in our hearts. I’m talking about walking in that knowledge with each and every step we take every day.

I’m talking about breathing it in every time we take a breath. Knowing it when things are good and when they’re horrible. Never, ever doubting, even for one moment that God, the Creator of the Universe, loves us.

Loves us.

Lives for us. Died for us. And this, despite the fact that He knows us more intimately than anyone else.

It just leaves you breathless, doesn’t it?

Paul was overcome with the emotion himself when he wrote Romans 8:37-39

“For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height or depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

Did he leave anything out? Tragedy or hurt? No, that’s covered. Huge obstacles? Nope. People in positions of authority that impact us negatively in some way? Not even them.

So, here’s my question. If everyone understood this on a deep, soul kind of level, how different would our world be? How different would our lives be? Us? Our families? Our workplaces? Our friendships, and loves, and priorities and goals? Don’t you think we would all rearrange our priorities and assign less importance to the majority of those things in our lives that cause us stress?

My gosh, if we could only get the magnitude of this one truth embedded deep into our souls, we could change the world.

And isn’t that what He calls us to do?

Let the very next breath you take be filled with the knowledge that HE LOVES YOU.



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5 Comments
Marsha
6/3/2016 07:27:03 pm

Very inspiring! I loved your last book!!

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April
6/3/2016 08:41:38 pm

Thank you, Marsha!!

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6/4/2016 11:41:58 am

Another great blog! I loved it because that is one of my favorite verses and you put wings to it!
(and also, that it sounded just like YOU!
And, yes your last book as my favorite...so far!
Can't wait for the next!

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4/18/2021 11:32:21 am

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    ​April Geremia has made her living as a professional writer for 20 years, and has recently turned her attention toward her true love—fiction. She loves God, her family and friends, the sea, mysteries, and stories of people battling impossible situations. The books in this series, Souls of the Sea, have all those elements in common.
     
    When she’s not writing, you’ll find her coaxing vegetables out of the ground, playing with her chickens, or whipping up a simple gourmet meal in her tiny house by the sea. Her favorite part of any day is connecting with her readers. 

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