Romans 8:35-39 (NIV): Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written: “For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.’
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
GOD LOVES US with a FURIOUS LOVE—one everlasting, all-encompassing, unconditional, and eternal. His love is perfect, casting out all fear that torments; it is persistent, pursuing us up mountains high, down valleys low, through every temptation and sin, through every storm, flood, and fire. His love knows no boundaries, for it crosses cultures, races, countries, nations, genders, ages, denominations, oceans, hearts, and time; it spans years and generations, sending surging waves through families, communities, governments, and kingdoms.
His love finds us wherever we are in whatever state and condition we are in—whether good or bad—and it overtakes us, flooding our hearts and our spirits with the essence of Him, and we KNOW we are HIS and we are LOVED, and we then FEEL more of His Presence, His Spirit, His Grace, and His Great Love.
In this we know GOD's FURIOUS LOVE: For GOD so loved us that He gave His only begotten Son that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life; JESUS CHRIST loved us so much that He died for us while we were still in sin, and He who was without blemish or sin was punished until he died--crucified--then was resurrected for our salvation, our redemption, our reconciliation with God, His Father, and for the forgiveness of our sins; and the HOLY SPIRIT loves us so much that HE dwells within us and has sealed us for the day of redemption, and He is our COMFORTER and Intercessor, our Gift Giver, and the Revealer of GOD’s WORD and JESUS, the SON of Almighty GOD. And through the HOLY SPIRIT, we know we are adopted, joint-heirs with JESUS, and sons and daughters of GOD, whereby we can call GOD, ‘ABBA,’ FATHER.
This is GOD's LOVE—Furious, Beyond Boundaries, Beyond Four Walls, and OUT OF THE BOX.
GOD'S LOVE includes ALL, even those who deny Him, ignore Him, mock Him, curse Him, and reject Him and His love; He loves the outcast, the forgotten, the unloved, the doubter, the skeptic, the seeker, the wanderer, the fatherless, the orphan, the widow, the prisoner, the wounded, the sick, and every sinner, disciple, and saint, and He shows no favoritism, even among those in His own family, for His desire is that ALL should KNOW Him, that ALL should LOVE Him, that ALL should SERVE Him, that ALL should TRUST Him, that ALL should BELIEVE and HAVE FAITH in Him, that ALL BE SAVED, for His will is that none should perish, but that ALL should spend eternity with Him—in His Presence. This is why GOD CALLS US to FISH for the SOULS of men, women, and children, for He loves every soul there is—even the sons and daughters who do not yet know that they are HIS—and THIS is the glorious evidence of HIS LOVE—His FURIOUS LOVE—JESUS, our SAVIOR, our LORD, our REDEEMER, our HEALER, our DELIVERER, our ADVOCATE, our COUNSELOR, our BRIDEGROOM, our KING.
