MORNING MANNA         10/27/20

“Isn’t the love of Jesus something wonderful” the old song says. And I say, “Indeed it is! It is so wonderful that it “passeth knowledge” ( Eph. 3:19). it is so marvellous that, as another song says – “I could sing forever of Jesus’ love divine”. To think that God, who is holy, could and would love sinful man staggers the mind. Our feeble minds simply cannot grasp something so glorious as that. The “breadth, and length, and depth, and height” ( Eph. 3:18) goes far beyond what we can understand or explain.

However, although beyond our apprehension, it is not beyond our appreciation. We don’t merely marvel at it, we love Him because He first loved us. And loving Him is the key to us living for Him. It is also a means of humility. Regardless of how much we love Him, we have nothing in which to boast, save in the cross of Christ where His love was displayed. We who deserve nothing can rejoice in knowing that in Christ we have life’s greatest treasure. His love is unearned, undeserved, unequalled, unfailing, unfathomable, and unending. Why then should we ever complain? James Smith wrote, “Wonder, O heavens, and be astonished, O earth! That Jesus should have fixed His love upon such poor, depraved, insignificant creatures – and that from eternity past!”

No wonder that we’re told to keep “Looking unto Jesus” ( Heb. 12:2). Understanding who we are and what we have in Christ is crucial to our well being and success. Keeping that in mind we never have cause to complain and always have a reason to rejoice.- HDS

David Stone
Lakeway Baptist Church
5801 FM 1960 E
Humble, TX. 77346