Lavish Love

Reflecting on the Lord's lavish love, His abundant, overflowing love. I sit, amazed at the immensity of generosity, and the tears begin to puddle in my eyes and make their way down my cheeks.  

These tears – what are they for? I hide myself to talk with the Lord, and He shows me this:

He doesn't just want to give a token to show His love. He wants to pour it out in abundance. He wants to bless us, to shower His goodness on us. He wants us to know that He cares about the hard parts and, rather than take them away, He shows His love in the midst of them. He wants us to know that we are not forgotten and alone. Sometimes He simply wants to smother us in love.

And He wants to use the Church to do it - the Body of Christ, privileged to participate in His wild generosity. 

But even more than all that, He shows me this: It wasn't about me or us or anything we do. It was all about Him, about giving me a clearer picture of the God who is bigger and fuller and more than anything I have yet understood. It was all about Him.

It's all about Him.

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All this, from December's days, from the deep reflecting I've been doing after experiencing overwhelming generosity, and from trying to find words to express to the givers the way the Giver worked through them.