Love Beyond Measure

I’m taking a course right now through World Harvest called Sonship. Perhaps some of you have heard of it or even taken the course. It is similar to Gospel Transformation (which my church offered last year as a Sunday school class).  I am in Lesson 4 and have really been thankful for Sonship and my counselor, who I discuss each lesson with. So far I haven’t necessarily heard anything that I hadn’t ever heard before, but I have been reminded of some things that I needed to be reminded of. For one, I need to hear the gospel every single day of my life (which is something Ande Johnson, my RUF minister always reminded me of.) As I was speaking to my counselor on the phone this past week I was struck by something in Lesson 3. There was a question in the homework that said, “Think of someone close to you. What is your view of them?” Well I was thinking of a friend of mine, and I described that friend as someone who has been an encouragement to me, an inspiration, patient with my faults, someone who I enjoy spending time with, etc. Then my counselor reminded me that the things I love about that friend are nothing compared to what Christ feels and sees when He looks at me. I was thinking “ what!? WOW!” I know that is true. I know Christ loves me as He loves His own Son. He sees Jesus' righteousness when He looks at me, not because of anything I’ve done, but because of the work of Christ. I don’t deserve this gift, but nonetheless it has been bestowed upon me. Thinking about how much Christ loves me blows me away, brings me to tears even. If I could grasp the depth of the love Christ has for me think how it would truly change my life, and the way that I would love others. I'm so unbelievably thankful that I am a chosen daughter of the Creator of the Universe and beyond.

Romans 5: 6-8

For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ dies for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person-though for a good person one would dare even to die- but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.