LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDID THING

Love,  love,  love! What a great thing Love is.  No wonder GOD gave  commandment concerning LOVE and it is  the first fruit in the Fruit of the Spirit indwelling  every spirit - filled believer. (John 15:12, 17, Gal. 5:22)  I remember when I was a small child,  mama use to watch a soap opera on t.v. called  LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDID THING.  For those that don't know or have never heard of a soap opera, it is a t.v. program that follows the day to day life and events of characters that resemble our own lives.  Some popular and well known soaps you may have heard of are: All my children,  Young and the Restless, Bold and the Beautiful, General Hospital in the daytime and at night: Dallas, Dynasty, Falcon Crest, Knots Landing,  Dallas - 'reloaded' etc. All these soaps had a theme usually referring to a love situation,  a family situation,  a business situation,  some major problem that weaved a financial thread through it.  LOVE was always involved, some sort of way. As I became an adult,  I watched soaps,  and I got hooked to many especially the nighttime ones.  Dallas and J.R were my favorites.  But I recently  began thinking back to  LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDID THING. I don't remember anything about it , but the title,  and that is what I chose for this blog, the title. When I think of how much GOD loves me  (us) and the wondrous ways HE shows that never ending,  never changing  LOVE it makes me  grateful that I can be LOVED like that,  even through all my faults and failings.  What is amazing in this season of my life is how GOD binds my wounds and  reveals the inner healing right in front of my face. Having gone through a few years of constant set-backs (can you imagine?), GOD has repeatedly shown through it all that HIS LOVE covers it all. I'm particularly amazed at this season right now.  Twice, so far, miraculous events have occurred in my sphere, where I have said out loud, 'this has to be GOD's hand because things don't happen this way, from brokenness'.  Not in the natural, but GOD moves Super naturally in any and every situation, and HE leaves His DNA there tell tailing that it is HIM.  This LOVE is SPLENDID and has many facets.  In Romans 8:35-39, it tells of GOD'S LOVE and that nothing can separate or take HIS LOVE from us.  Much will occur, but as HIS chosen generation, HIS holy nation,  HIS peculiar people,  HE has called out of darkness into the  marvelous light,  we are more than conquerors  through HIM that LOVED us (1Pet.2:9).  Super naturally, GOD has caused my heart to move in a direction I wouldn't  have thought possible.  When I realized it, (which took some doing to even be aware of) I could have turned a cart wheel (that right there would have been a miracle lol). It made my heart leap inside my chest!!!  I began to smile bigger, rejoice longer, with gratitude, praise for revealed, in-your-face, awesomeness!! LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDID THING!!!  1John 4: 16-19 became clear as a glass of clear, water fall water.  To know and believe GOD'S LOVE, that GOD is LOVE and with HIM on the inside (John 14:23)  of me (us) this perfect LOVE destroys fear which has its own posse of tormentors and destroyers.  I am empowered by this perfect LOVE, GLORY!!!  In 1Cor .13:7 it states that LOVE bears, hopes, believes, endures all things. Let me testify right now that I have in the past and still do all that bearing, hoping, believing, and enduring in my life. Not by my might or strength,  but by GOD'S power.  1John4:4.  GOD doesn't love halfway either.  HE is a: all in,  full tilt,  turbo charged,  electrified,  magnified,  bring it,  any distance,  in your face,  no fear here,  just do it,  Bam,  whoop, there it is,  can't touch this,  watch me,  but GOD,  look at GOD,  I know that's right,  booeyow, kind of GOD. WOW!!!!  The bump, bruises and scars, testify of GOD'S amazing Grace  and new, Mercy and Goodness HE   slathers on me daily without measure.   His LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDID THING. It's astounding to me cause I want to be able to  LOVE like that.   I am a work in progress, lol.   When I find myself on the receiving end of this Great LOVE, the results mesmerize me.  At this point in time,  I am walking in the clouds cause it has such a tremendous effect on me.  It is like something you thought was over and done with,  brought back to life again, re-loaded, part 2, next level, come again kind of thing, what, what!!  The phrase "Glory to GOD" takes on new meaning.  I can't say what will happen in the future,  cause I didn't know any of this when I was going through those constant set- backs I spoke of earlier.(Joseph's story comes to mind right here).   All I know and still know is GOD'S ways are higher than my ways and HE has a great plan for me.  To HIM be ALL  Glory, Honor, and  High Praise. AMEN.  Jesus is still LORD.                        Jeremiah 29, 1John4,  John 14, 1Cor. 13,
                                           Romans 8.