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Love That Overpowers Mountains

April 28, 2009

Isaiah 54:10

“Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed,” says the LORD who has compassion on you.

Have you ever wondered what it would take to bring down a mountain? I have seen footage of people blowing up skyscrapers. It takes so much explosive, and planning and preparation. The resulting cloud of dust and debris is ridiculous, and all the men stand around after and talk about how cool that looked. Men like me watching from home wish that we were there to see it in real life because lets be honest, when you can create that much force, that much power…you can pretty much do anything.

What is interesting is when we remember that buildings, essentially are hollow inside. They are a frame of metal and bolts covered with a glorified paper mache…and now we read of God shaking mountains and leveling hills.

Which…in case you skipped that class….are solid rock. Sometimes kilometers thick.

So there you have it. God is better than people. You can turn off your computer now, there is nothing more to see.

Ok well here is the truth that I have been struck with today. Bombs and explosives are one of the single most feared forces on the planet. Yet with all the power that they have, we know that would take several of even the most powerful bombs we have ever invented to bring down Mount Everest.

Because mountains are really, really big.

And yet to God bringing down an entire mountain, or destroying hills so that it is as if they were never there is nothing. It is such a flippant discussion to him that he uses it in an ANALOGY!

To us the idea is grandiose, and the only place it could occur would be in some sort of love song or a Bruce Willis movie…but to God it is NOTHING…..

ESPECIALLY when it is compared to an even greater force….His love and compassion for His children.

God says the power required to destroy a MOUNTAIN is NOTHING compared to His love for you and me.

Is anyone like me? Do you simply have a hard time believing that? I have a HARD TIME with this truth…and yet it is the truth of God. It is the truth of life. It is the truth of relationship with a compassionate and loving father.

It is simply true.

I feel like for many of us who read a statement like this we have this visceral withdrawal…this feeling in the core of who we are that just sort of….recoils or pushes back at the statement that GOD LOVES YOU NO MATTER WHAT….why is that? Why do we recoil and revolt and resist the love of God.

Shouldn’t we want the God of the Universe to love us? I sometimes feel like I just push back on this so hard….because I don’t feel like its real. I don’t feel like it should be, or that I deserve it, or that I want it for free….I want to earn it. I want to prove myself deserving.

So today….if you are at all like me….join me at the feet of Jesus. Join me in TRYING TO SIMPLY BASK IN GOD‘S LOVE. To simply sit at the feet of the God who says that mountains will collapse before He stops loving us…..

Lets sit in the middle of our imperfection….and receive love simply because its there…

Thats my journey today.

Brian <><

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