A Wonderful Love Letter

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I read an inspiring letter from a soldier to his wife written a week before he was killed in battle. As I read, I thought about how much that letter must have meant to her. I imagine how his wife must have read that love letter many times after his death, over and over. What an assurance of his love it must have been! Reading the letter would bring him near once again and remind her of all they had together.

We have a letter like that also. And it is from the One who loves us more than anyone else ever has or ever will. It is a love letter from God.

Did you ever have a lover who told you, “I have so much to tell you, and I’m sending you a letter that will tell you everything,” and then when you got the letter, you set it aside and didn’t read it?

That is what we do when we put aside God’s Word and don’t read it. God’s Word is His love letter to us. In it He tells the story of His love—how He has chased us and wooed us and spoken to us through the ages. In this love letter He lays out His plans for us, tells us about the gifts He has for us and how we can obtain them. He shares His heart by telling us what’s important to Him and how we can come close to Him. He gives intimate clues in how to communicate with Him – how to both talk to Him and listen to Him.

How much God loves you

Do you fully understand just how much God loves you? In Ephesians 3, Paul expresses with great emotion his desire for you “to be able to feel and understand, as all God’s children should, how long, how wide, how deep and how high his love really is, and to experience this love for yourselves, though it is so great that you will never see the end of it or fully know or understand it. And so at least you will be filled up with God himself.”  (Ephesians 3: 18-19 TLB)

In John 3:16, the apostle John tells us just how much God loves us and what He did to demonstrate that love. “For God loved the world so much that He gave His only Son so that anyone who believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”

Then in Romans 8:34-35, 38-39, Paul again pleads with us to grasp the breadth and strength of Christ’s love “who died for us and came back to life again for us and is sitting at the place of highest honor next to God, pleading for us there in heaven. . . .  Who then,” he asks, “can ever keep Christ’s love from us?”

Paul gives us the answer to that question with great authority.  “I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from his love. Death can’t, and life can’t. The angels won’t, and all the powers of hell itself cannot keep God’s love away. Our fears for today, our worries about tomorrow, or where we are—high above the sky, or in the deepest ocean—nothing will ever be able to separate us from the love of God demonstrated by our Lord Jesus Christ when he died for us.” (emphasis mine)

Wow! How could anyone’s love be greater than that? How could we ever receive a love letter that carries more emotion, sincerity, and power? Why would you and I not want to read that over and over?

It’s there in that love letter

The very first time I ever read Romans 8, I cried from sheer amazement that the God of the universe could love me so much. If you ever need to be reminded of how much God loves you in spite of your disappointments and failures, read Romans 8. The power of God’s love will grab hold of your heart, and you will know that no earthly love could ever be a match for the love of our wonderful Lord.

Earthly love will sometimes fail us. People will disillusion us. But God’s love will hold us up through each and every crisis we face or obstacle we need to overcome.

With Paul in his letter to the Ephesians in chapter 3: 17, 18, I pray that as you pick up the love letter God has written for you and begin to read it, “your roots [will] go down deep into the soil of God’s marvelous love so you will “be able to feel and understand . . . how long, how wide, how deep and how high his love really is.”

Scripture references taken from the Living Bible.

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