God is Love

I was reading 1 John 4 this week at Crow and I was amazed that I had never caught the simple phrase "God is love". So simple but so infinite. This made me think of 1 Corinthians 13:4-8. The passage on love. So I read it but I switched the word love to God and I found it so powerful. I am in awe. God is such a wonderful and magnificent God.

God is patient, God is kind.

He does not envy, he does not boast, he is not proud.

He is not rude, he is not self-seeking, he is not easily angered, he keeps no record of wrongs.

He does not delight in evil but rejoices in the truth. 

He always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

God never fails.

"God is love. Whoever lives in love, lives in God and God in him". 1 John 4:16

This the Power of the Cross

This is a new song that I learned at Ross Haven Bible Camp this summer. I find that this song is such a reminder of what Jesus did for us on that cross. Its so so easy to forget the immense love and sacrifice that poured out.

Oh, to see the dawn
Of the darkest day:
Christ on the road to Calvary.
Tried by sinful men,
Torn and beaten, then
Nailed to a cross of wood.

CHORUS:
This, the pow'r of the cross:
Christ became sin for us;
Took the blame, bore the wrath—
We stand forgiven at the cross.

Oh, to see the pain
Written on Your face,
Bearing the awesome weight of sin.
Ev'ry bitter thought,
Ev'ry evil deed
Crowning Your bloodstained brow.

Now the daylight flees;
Now the ground beneath
Quakes as its Maker bows His head.
Curtain torn in two,
Dead are raised to life;
"Finished!" the vict'ry cry.

Oh, to see my name
Written in the wounds,
For through Your suffering I am free.
Death is crushed to death;
Life is mine to live,
Won through Your selfless love.

FINAL CHORUS:
This, the pow'r of the cross:
Son of God—slain for us.
What a love! What a cost!
We stand forgiven at the cross.