Spiritual Growth

Week Two     Spiritual Growth

Day Three     Saturated

 One definition of the word “saturated” is to soak completely. Before we take another step into allowing God to change us spiritually and move us out in His purposes, let’s fill up, soak completely, until it overflows, in His great love for us.

Allow yourself to feel truly loved today by our Heavenly Father, as His Words soak into your soul:

so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, and I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge that you may be filled to the measure of all fullness of God.  Ephesians 3:17-18-19  (NIV)

 Jesus said: “Whoever believes in me as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.” John 7:38

The Lord your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you, in His love He will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing.  Zephaniah 3:17  (NIV)

See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.  1 John 3:1  (NIV)

I hope you can read through those Words a few times today. These Words of love are extravagant, extreme, a love beyond our comprehension. Imagine, He delights in you and rejoices over you with singing. He lavished us with love and we are His children. I love the exclamation points in the verses from 1 John.  It is exciting!! When Jesus was speaking to the woman at the well about the living water, He promised she would never be thirsty again.

That type of love is enough. It is satisfying. It quenches our thirst. If no one else around you right now is able to show you love, Your Heavenly Father will lavish you with it and delight in you. His love is so long and high and wide and deep, we can barely grasp it.

Hang onto it today and everyday. Remind yourself of it everyday. It’s a love beyond our human understanding.  He loves you.

Dear Jesus,

How can we thank you for allowing us to be loved so completely, so unconditionally, that you would die for us and take on the sins of the world? We soak in the love you have lavished on us today. Fill us up to overflowing.

Amen