Spirit: Path To Praise - The Overflow DevoSample

Your Love Is Wild (Zealand Worship)

'Cause Your love is wild fire in my soul
Your love is wild greater than I know
And I'm coming alive coming alive and it's beautiful
'Cause Your love is wild

Have you ever been in love? Do you remember the explosive rush of adrenaline and emotion that swelled in your heart when that love sparked ablaze for the first time? It’s been said that love will make you do crazy things. Being in love, whether it is romantic or paternal, can cause someone to totally reevaluate and then change the way they are living. Love is dangerous, because in the wrong hands or wrong heart, unhealthy love can cause someone to go too far or to change their life in destructive ways.

God’s love for sinners like us is not a safe or tameable love.

Discovering and receiving God’s love for the first time is what causes someone to come alive in Christ, to be born again, to be transformed into a new creation, a beloved child of God! However, we are incapable of seeing the beautiful truth of God’s love without the power of His Holy Spirit opening our spiritually blind eyes.

Rediscovering and understanding more about God’s love is what continues to transform Christ followers, making us more like Jesus as we progress with Him on our journey of faith (sanctification). However, we are incapable of understanding more about God’s love without the power of His Holy Spirit revealing greater depths to us from God’s Word.

So today, the most important information we can believe and learn more of is the truth about God’s love for us expressed through Jesus. Even now, let us invite the Holy Spirit to open our eyes and hearts more as we read 1 John 4:8b-10:

“…God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.” (ESV)

Vividly defined here is the reality that God’s love had nothing to do with us loving Him first (“not that we have loved God”). God’s love for us is so unrestrainable that He speaks the words “Jesus” and “propitiation” in the same breath. Understanding the word “propitiation” gives us clarity into the extent that God would go to redeem us from sin. A good way to understand the word “propitiation” is to think of it as a “wrath sponge/absorber.” On the cross, Jesus hung in the uncrossable chasm between sinners and God. Jesus was our wrath absorber. God poured out every drop of His wrath, for the sins that we have committed, into the body of Jesus on the cross. Therefore, those who believe in Jesus are eternally free from wrath, free from death, free from sin, and invited into the eternal love, adoration, and acceptance of God our Creator. God loved you so much that:

“It was the will of God to crush Jesus on the cross.” (Isaiah 53:10)

Holy Spirit, help us believe that there is no more wrath from God, but only love, because of Jesus our propitiation. Amen!