Swim in God's Love

I have been sick for a short while, okay for quite a while and have gained some weight due to the steroids. I am starting to workout again.

I love to swim. I bought new goggles to swim with. This morning I swam 42 laps of the pool. Before you think how about what an aweesome feat that is, please know this it is a short pool. When I first started out my lungs were burning and my heart was pumping rather rapidly but the more I swam the les my lungs burned and my heart quit trying to pump out of my chest.

After I swam laps I just swam for fun. As I went under the water and stayed for a while I felt a certain kind of peace. It was quit and just felt so comforting just to be surrounded by the water. It makes me feel so small and the water so big. I felt that nothing in my life mattered. I was at a place of peace.

I started thinking about how I feel when I spend time with God and let His love surround me. I thought that the water around me must be like when God's love.

I read about what some children said about how big God's love is:

"God's love is so big, almost nobody can explain it," says Jamie, age 8. "It's bigger than 999,999,999 gallons of chocolate milk."

"God's love is bigger than people's love, dogs' love and everyone's love," says Catherine, 8.

"God's love will never end," says Kasey, 8. It's bigger than a hundred trillion, billion elephants! If I compare God's love to anything, God's love would be bigger."

God's love is bigger than the pain of our failure and sin.

When we're filled with God's love, there's no room for fear, guilt, hatred, bitterness, envy or the past failures that torment us. When we realize that Jesus' sacrifice on the cross is greater than any sin we can commit, we start to live free. God's unconditional love has the power to transform us into agents of grace. It's the greatest motivation for holy living. Fear may modify one's behavior, but it can never transform a heart.

"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear because fear involves torment" (I John 4:18).

Will you allow the bigness of God's love to give you eternal life as a free gift and to fill you with the abundant life God desires for you?

Will you allow God's love to surround you?

Just some thoughts.

It Is All Good.