250607 The Love of God

 The Love of God


The love of God is powerful 
It leads us to embrace his will
To trust his ways are better ways
Thus follow him throughout our days

The love of God we should return 
A free gift that we did not earn
Not grudgingly or to appease him
But genuinely, so to please him

The love of God's transformative
It changes how we want to live
Creating a clean heart within
Where once a hardened one had been

The love of God requires law
To discipline us after all
Correcting us when we do wrong
And guide us back where we belong

The love of God shows sacrifice 
As seen in life and death of Christ
That real love's displayed in service
To those in need he puts before us

The love of God's patient and kind
Even when we get out of line
Not on obedience depends
For God's love's one that never ends

The love of God's omnipresent 
No matter how off-track we went
Found in our deepest, darkest pit
A lifeline in the midst of it

The love of God's relentless one
Pursues, despite how far we run
For one lost sheep, leaves ninety-nine 
Until the straying one he finds

The love of God does not keep score
Though we still sin, then sin some more 
For blood of Christ has wiped slate clean
So stain of sin's no longer seen

God's love, nothing can separate 
Or cause it to evaporate 
It is, and was, will always be
From now, throughout eternity 

All that we understand of love
Divinely given from above
For we love because God loved first
So through us, let it be dispersed 

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