On the Doorstep, But Don't Get to Enter-Part 26

Have you ever heard the song that goes something like this "The love of God is greater far then tongue or pen could ever tell.." by Frederick M. Leyman?  Well, this 'dose'  of On the Doorstep, But Don't Get to Enter which sprouted out of exerpts from the book The Eternal Journey written by Craig R. Lundahl and Harold A. Widdison, both Ph.D. holders, regarding Near Death Experiences (NDE), has something to say about the love bathed in during just such an encounter.  


They assert on Page 175 that...

"Martha Todd, a college professor, died from an allergic reaction to the anesthetic she received for some minor surgery."

"I came out of this tunnel into a realm of soft, brilliant love and light.  The love was everywhere.  It surrounded me and seemed to soak through into my very being..."

>  God's love is like this.  God is love (1 John 4:8).  God is light (1 John 1:5).  He is the Light of the world (John 8:12).  

"God demonstrated (or proved) His love to us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us"  (Romans 5:8).

Again in John 3:16 we are told...

"For God so loved the world, that He gave His one and only Son..."

When someone is willing to die for you, they must have loved you an awful lot.  And for God, that's an understatement.  I like how Martha Todd described it, "surrounded...and soak through into my very being..."

Grasp that.  Grasp God's all encompassing love for each and everyone of us; for YOU!  We will know we are loved to the very core of our being.  It is overwhelming.

God wants us to have a relationship with Him.  To commune with Him.  He loves you.  He cares about you.  He wants you "just as your are".  Of course as the saying goes, "He loves you and accepts you just as you are but loves you too much to leave you that way." (~Max Lucado~)

We can come to Him through Jesus "just as we are".  His arms of love and forgiveness are opened to each of us.  Once we are His child then we learn how to behave in His family and what pleases Him.  We learn His will and ways from reading and obeying His Word, the Bible.

And guess what!?  We can soak in God's love even now while still very much alive on earth. Don't wait for a NDE (no I'm not mocking NDEs), revel in God's love now.  When we do get to go to heaven eventually we can understand and know and wallow more completely in His love without earth's encumbrances.

I like the Bible verse from Deuteronomy 3:27...

"The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms."

We are only just getting the tip of the iceberg at the moment. God will make all things perfect in His time.  And just think, nothing can ever, ever separate us from the love of Christ once we belong to Him.  We learn that from the apostle Paul in Romans 8: 35, 38 and 39.

He affirms...

"Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?...For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

These verses can be sung to the tune of Auld Lang Syne.  Poet/songwriter John Reynell Wreford wrote:

"In all things more than conquerors Through Him that loved us. We know that neither death, nor life Nor angels, rulers, powers, Nor present things, nor things to come, Nor even height, nor depth, Nor any other creature thing, Above, below, around, Can part us from the love of God In Jesus Christ our Lord."*

May God's light and love illuminate your heart and mind and flood your whole being in the here and now:  spirit, soul and body.  He loves you. 

                                                            ~ERC   2017~



*(Song as found in A Few Hymns & Some Spiritual Songs selected 1856 for The Little Flock; author Adrian Roach; Revised 1881; Central Bible Truth Depot Ltd, 50 Grays Road, London, W.C.; page 124)

John Reynell Wreford (1800-1881)

Presbyterian (with Unitarian views)

Hymn #157.

J. R. Wreford was born December 11, 1800 at Barnstable, Devonshire, England, and was educated at the Unitarian Manchester College in York. He became co-pastor of the Unitarian "New Meeting" in Birmingham (1826), but his voice broke down and he retired from public ministry to open a school in Egbaston, a suburb of Birmingham in 1831. It has been written about him that he regarded himself as one of those "English Presbyterians who always carefully repudiated all sectarian names and doctrinal distinctions". His life span was commensurate with that of J.N. Darby. How good it would have been had he gone also outside the camp, actually separating from all sectarianism! He had a zeal for the Unitarian form of profession and this led him to set aside all Trinitarian formulas and what savored of Calvinism. However, hymn #157 was incorporated in the 1856 (Wigram) and 1881 (JND) books, and is a faithful presentation of Rom. 8:37-39:

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