Learning that God’s Love is Never Ending and Surrendering to it

Hello friends and welcome back to The Book of Romans Series. Today we are exploring the rest of chapter eleven. Yesterday we talked about the parable of the olive tree. Where we are the branches and God is the root; and He grafts those who believe to the tree so that they may take in the nourishing sap. We also learned that, just because other branches, or unbelievers, have been cut off from the tree to make room for us, that doesn’t mean that we can be arrogant. For we are merely branches and the branches, being all the same, do not support the tree but it is the root that does. Let’s continue where we left off in verse 25:

I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in, and in this way all Israel will be saved. As it is written:

“The deliverer will come from Zion; he will turn godlessness away from Jacob. And this is my covenant with them when I take away their sins.” (Verses 25-27)

When He comes, He will take away our sins and they will fall away with our flesh.

As far as the gospel is concerned, they are enemies for your sake; but as far as election is concerned, they are loved on account of the patriarchs, for God’s gifts and his call are irrevocable. Just as you who were at one time disobedient to God have now received mercy as a result of their disobedience, so they too have now become disobedient in order that they too may now receive mercy as a result of God’s mercy to you. For God has bound everyone over to disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all. (Verses 28-32)

God’s mercy is for everyone, regardless of disobedience. If you believe and you ask to be forgiven, you will be.

Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgements, and his paths beyond tracing out!

“Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?”

“Who has given to God, that God should repay them?”

For from him and through him and for him are all things. To him be the glory forever and ever! Amen. (Verses 33-36)

We cannot know the wisdom of God or even how deep His love is for us. We owe Him everything because it is through Him that everything was given to us – our earth, our life, our family, the list goes on and on. He created everything.

That is all of this chapter but, instead of ending it here, I want to share with you another parable that the Lord gave to me that is similar to the olive tree:

The plank may be stiff and stern, but the splinters come away in the storms. The splinters of the wood get washed away by the wind and rain because they are not firmly fastened to the wood. The splinters that have a firm grasp onto faith stay attached to the wood even through the fiercest of storms.

And here is a parable about God’s love that He also gave to me today:

A heart has blood pumping through it always. In this way, the Lord has love overflowing and cycling through Him. The Lord does not run out of love for those who love Him in return. For once He gives His children love, new love comes through immediately and never seizes. The love the Lord gives is always new and is never used, unlike the love of a person that has little love to give. A person gives love and takes it back to give to another, but the Lord’s love does not work in this way.

The way God loves His children is never-ending, never fading, and never-failing. It is new every morning. The way God loves us now is how He will love us forever. Even though we are sinners, nothing we do can ever change the way He thinks of us. Even though the Lord is disgusted by our sin, He looks at the spirit of the individual not the flesh.

For He created the spirit and the flesh at the same time, knowing the flesh would one day fall away. And if sin is in the flesh that means it is not in the spirit. So, when our flesh falls away, all that will matter is what is in our spirit. So, if we have faith in our spirit, we will live with God eternally but if we have nothing in our spirit besides the longing of flesh then we will not. It’s that simple.

Jesus made it that simple by dying for us and raising from the dead. And when we love Him, we want to leave our sinful nature. Though we are trapped in a body tempted by sin, a body subject to death, our hearts belong to Jesus.

So, believe with your heart and confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord! Let everyone around hear it. Let anyone who has words to say about it talk, for their words will not affect your salvation. Their words may sting like shards of glass in the wind, but they cannot separate you from the Lord. Let those who wish to waste their breath, waste it. For their breath is like sands in an hourglass; they will run out and regret using their breath for anything other than praising the Lord. You don’t have anything to prove to them, for when this life is done, they will see the truth for themselves.

Jesus is the name above every other name. Believe in this and you will be saved. Show that you believe in every way. Let it show in how you carry yourself, how you speak, and your body language. Let the light of life rest upon your face. Let the love of the Lord dwell in your heart and show it to others. And live! For you can truly live because you have purpose and value through Christ.

I hope you guys don’t mind that I added things that the Lord was telling me instead of keeping this blog short/moving on to the next chapter. I hope you enjoyed it and found something in it that made you smile.

So, today, I simply surrender to God’s love. It is so deep for us. He is showing me that is deeper than the depths of the ocean and larger than all the galaxies.