Amazing Love!

 Now it came to pass on the next day that Moses said to the people, “You have committed a great sin. So now I will go up to the LORD; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.” 31 Then Moses returned to the LORD and said, “Oh, these people have committed a great sin, and have made for themselves a god of gold! 32 Yet now, if You will forgive their sin—but if not, I pray, blot me out of Your book which You have written.” --Exodus 32:30-32

I tell the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit, 2 that I have great sorrow and continual grief in my heart. 3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my countrymen--Romans 9:1-3

Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. --John 15:13

To My Daughters,

WOW! WOW! WOW!  What a heart of love both Moses and Paul had for God's people.  What conviction this brings to my own heart.  How much of a burden do I have for the lost around me?  I can say this, it is nothing, nothing like what Paul and Moses demonstrated.  I barely spare the effort to share the gospel with those around me, much less desire to be accursed so that they could be saved.  I do not carry constant grief and sorrow in my heart daily for the lost...I carry it for myself and for my own problems but not for others.  I do not wish myself to be blotted out from God's Book of Life or sent to hell so that others could be saved!  I do not understand nor can I fathom the depth of this kind of love.  

Here is what I do know.  This kind of love is not of man...it is of God.  It was God's love shed abroad in both Moses' and Paul's hearts that enabled them to have such agape (selfless) love for the people in their care.  Looking into the lives of both Moses and Paul, we see Jesus...

But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. --Romans 5:8

AMAZING LOVE HOW CAN IT BE THAT YOU MY KING SHOULD DIE FOR ME?

Love

Mom