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"Though the mountains be shaken and the hills 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, Isaiah 54:10

Our Bible Study this week is on God's Unfailing love for us. Each day has caused my heart to just overflow a bit more than the day before. The scriptures are familiar, but the way they are penetrating my heart has been long missed. I John 4:10 is one of Bella's cubby verses. God loved us and sent his Son is her version. Such deep truth and so matter of factly delivered. Song of Songs says "I am my Beloved's and His desire is for me." I know how much I desire the Lord in my life, but how little thought I give to Him Desiring me. When I think of courtship and the wooing process that accompanies it I am taken aback by the thought of Jesus' pursuit of my love. And yet He sought me out. "While we were still sinners Christ died for us..."  How simple it is to say, of course God loves so and so, but I know me, and well, loving me isn't easy. It is to easy to dismiss that He would desire me. How wonderful that Jesus knows me too and loving me was not at all easy. He counted the cost and found me worthy of the Bride Price! Do I believe this?

Day three of our study focused on Eph. 3:14-21 and said" read this as if you've never read it before...note God's love, and so I did. Rooted and established in love...The deeper you and I are rooted in God's unfailing love the less we are to sway and fall when the harsh winds blow. I considered my roots, they are so deeply embedded in Christ winds have often blown at Hurricane force against me, but I am standing. I then thought of my saplings. My roots shoot out, saplings appear and they begin their own journey toward the Son. They are still connected to me and always will be, but the depth of root they have  is subject to their own experiences with Jesus. Shallow roots concern my heart, being on the surface they are quick to receive the water that comes but when the drought appears if they have not dug down deeply to the underground reservoir of God's Unfailing love the winds may prevail. Oh how I desire to hold them fast, yet I know God is their true source of life. Discipline is a big part of that love, as is pruning. Ouch!

Grasping the depth, length , width of Jesus' love for me brings me back to the Bride Price. It is more than I can imagine, it surpasses my finite knowledge. But how wonderful to search it out. How do I know Mike loves me? He tells me so as does the Lord. He shows me, holds me fast , He knows me all of me. He protects me and provides for me. Mike's love for me at times is a love I cannot comprehend. God's love for me I also do not fully comprehend, and He desires me, longs for me to comprehend it enough to invite me to walk beside Him. Daily , moment by moment there is a new facet of HIS heart that God is willing to expose to me. Unbelief in His Unfailing Love for me would be to call Him a liar for he tells me plainly "I have loved you with an Everlasting Love". I may not understand it, but I chose to whole heartedly embrace it. His Word is true, there is no deceit or wavering in Him. He is not a man that he should lie, so I believe His love for me is unfailing, even if I must at times cry out, I believe, help my unbelief.