Titus 3:4-7 - The Boundless Love of God

Titus 3:4-7  “But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of His mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that,  having been justified by His grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life.”

Are you loved? Do you feel loved? Are you able to show love? Do you love? These are questions that we all at some point in our lives tend to ask. We also tend to take for granted those who enable us to ask those questions. Another thing which we tend to take for granted in our daily life is God's magnificent love for us - after all, God is love and therefore He has to love us, or so goes our thinking.  God doesn't have to love us, He does anyway. He didn't have to send Christ to the Cross so that we wouldn't be condemned to hell for eternity, but He did anyway. He didn't have to create this lush world for us to live in, but He did anyway.  His love for you and for me is so tremendous there is no way we can comprehend it.  Every so often, we as people tend to get into mock fights with our significant other about who loves who more, but with God there is no question about it. His love is immeasurable, incalculable, and immutable.

The result of this love is that God finds us wherever we are in life and walks with us. We don't have to be someone special. We don't need to be somewhere special. We don't need to do any rituals, or make any speeches, or change ourselves to meet His approval. He is already there with us. He takes us as we are and loves us anyway. It is a mind blowing thing! He loves us despite our hangups, our faults, our sins, our imperfectness. He takes us as we are and loves us.

Of course because He loves us as we are does not mean we shouldn't change for the better. Part of His love for us is to encourage us and enable us to change and become more like Him. Part of our love for Him is that we want to become better people, to become more like Him. He wants to groom us to be His heirs, and so we need to learn how to be more like Him. Its not just a duty or an obligation, but a desire from ourselves.  On our own, we could never be acceptable or worthy, but because He loves us, because of the cross, we are now being sanctified and justified and made holy and righteous!

This week then, lets not take His love for us for granted any longer. Lets not shrug it off as normal, but instead see it for the wonder it is, and let us bask in it. His Love is there for us, whenever and wherever we are. We don't deserve it, we can't demand it, but its there anyways freely offered to us. Nothing we can do makes us any more or any less acceptable to Him, His love is there no matter what! Walk in the realization and in the full knowledge that He loves you. He loves you, no matter what!

Just as I am, without one plea,
But that Thy blood was shed for me,
And that Thou bidst me come to Thee,
O Lamb of God, I come, I come.

Just as I am, and waiting not
To rid my soul of one dark blot,
To Thee whose blood can cleanse each spot,
O Lamb of God, I come, I come.

Just as I am, though tossed about
With many a conflict, many a doubt,
Fightings and fears within, without,
O Lamb of God, I come, I come.

Just as I am, poor, wretched, blind;
Sight, riches, healing of the mind,
Yea, all I need in Thee to find,
O Lamb of God, I come, I come.
                           ^{Char­lotte El­li­ott, 1835.}