Radical Love

At Wesley, I get picked on so much for my love of children. I'm totally serious. It's gotten to the point now that if anyone ever sees a child, especially a cute, black baby, they'll text me or tweet at me just to let me know. Children are so precious to me, but they were also precious to Jesus. In Matthew 18:1-4, Jesus talks about how unless we accept the kingdom like that of a little child we'll never enter the kingdom of heaven. Wow. I really began to ponder that and wonder what it meant and then I remembered a note that I'd read from one of my favorites: AJ Cheek.

"God’s love is Radical.
It sounds absurd.
Some would say it’s "too good to be true"
That it is ‘unreasonable’
Some would ask? "How can it be? ..that he would love me after all I have done"
Some would say "there must be a catch"
"There must be a list of good deeds I must do"
But the truth is…
All we can do is accept God’s gift of salvation and unconditional love. Accept his love like a child.
Like a infant holding out his hands for a bottle of milk
A baby does not have the capability to earn or work for there food.
All they can do is hold out there hands and accept it
That is the only way to truly accept God’s grace.
But as we get older…the harder it is make sense of God’s love.
We work to ‘deserve’ cars, houses, promotions…
We are raised to think that everything comes with hard work and diligence and preparation. To prepare in order to promote...
But, that is not the case with God..
No matter what we have done..Good/Bad ..Jesus loves us.
On the day that Jesus was crucified..
He paid our Debt.. He took every sin. Died for you and was raised from the dead …with new life and something that the world has never seen…
Not what we have done..but what He has done.
The gift of salvation..."
I just love what he wrote about how a child can't do things on his own and has to stand there waiting on someone to take care of it. There's no other option of trying to do things ourselves! We have to wait on God, wait on him to provide us with every little thing we could possibly need. Just stand there and receive God's love for us, even if we are totally undeserving. Wow.