This year coming up to Fayetteville I was always thinking about what church I was going to go to. Back home I attend New Life Church, and I absolutely LOVE it! Going to New Life each week is so amazing. The people always have smiles on their faces, the pastors are awesome about speaking on topics that target all ages, and the community and love for God at this church is incredible. When I came up to Fayetteville I had heard of a couple of churches that would be similar to my church back home, one of those churches was Cross Church Fayetteville. I have been obsessed with Cross Church since day one. It is very much like New Life which instantly made me feel right at home. On Wednesday nights at Cross we have C3, which is for college aged kids. I love everything about C3, the praise and worship to Noe, the college pastor. This week at C3 we talked about God's Love for us, a very simple topic, but its not something we often truly take the time to think about. Lately at C3 we have been discussing really deep and tough topics. So this week Noe wanted to take a break from some of the heavier topics and talk about something that I think all of us need to be reminded about.
God's Love for us is so much greater than any of us realize. We followed 1 John 4:7-21. In these verses alone the work LOVE is used 21 times, and uses the statement "God is LOVE" 2 times. How much God loves us is incredible and it is an incredible feeling to know that he loves us so much, even though we are so undeserving of his love. The Noe talked about 1 Corinthians 13:4-13,
-"4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."
If that is God's LOVE, why do we not reflect that in our own lives?
God is fully committed to us! God doesn't take a day of or even an hour, minute, or second off from loving us. He is all we need to be complete, we don't need anyone to make us complete when we have God, because with him we have all the LOVE we need.
I hope everyone is as amazed by God's love for us as I am!
In Christ,
Mary Kate
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