His love is beyond anything I can really grasp or comprehend.
He sees beyond my selfish thoughts and judgmental attitudes. Beyond my easily irritated heart and quickly angered reactions.
He has seen my potential and the glorious way it could be, if we were together, and He reached down and rescued me when everyone else had given up. He saw beyond my depravity, and in doing so chose to be humbled and come…so He could die for me. He saw beyond the now, to what could be…beyond…to what would be.
And this great love is beyond me. My own self, incapable of reproducing it. Yet my desire so great to emulate it, even in the most challenging of situations that seem to relentlessly present themselves each and every day.
And beyond my inability…in my sheer weakness to be able to be holy, He meets me, and His Spirit woos me, and I am able to be used by Him…beyond what even I could think or imagine.
And all of these trials and struggles are growing the character in me beyond what could have ever been possible, had HE not seen beyond what was, to what could be, as He does His work through me.
2 Corinthians 4:17 (NASB) For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison.
Ephesians 3:18-20 That you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God. Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.
How has God been beyond what YOU could imagine?
I’m joining Lisa-Jo, over at her site today, to just write five minutes, without worrying if it’s just right or not, with the prompt she gives. And today, her prompt: Beyond…
Jacque, found you via the GypsyMama . . . thanks for sharing those verses, I needed them!
I’m so glad…may your day be blessed!
This is beautiful! I am learning too how He is turning the trials and long waits into His beauty. Thanks for sharing! Writing on “beyond” with yoU!