SUNLIGHT OF HIS LOVE



By Jan Wright, State Girls Clubs Coordinator, Virginia

The sun is central to our solar system and to our survival.  Without it life as we know it would not exist.  In that same way the SON is central to our lives.  Without Him we would have no life at all.  He is our source of energy, power, and growth.

I have learned there are two distinct areas of my life that I need the SONshine daily.  These areas seem to keep rearing their ugly heads reminding me that as hard as I may try on my own, I need HIS strength daily to conquer.

“We don’t conquer through brilliance, we conquer through continuing.”

And the beautiful thing I am realizing more each day is that He will continue to be my daily source, no matter how many times I fail.

I Need Him in My Helplessness (Romans 5:8-10)
“But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.  Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.  For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.”

I Need Him in My Hurts (Romans 1:8)
“That's why I don't think there's any comparison between the present hard times and the coming good times” (The Message).

We were helplessly lost when He found us.  We were unable to reconcile ourselves to God, unable to answer the real questions of our lives.  It’s a bit like the lost and found box at my boys’ school.

I was always amused that no matter how valuable the article of clothing was, no child wanted to be seen sifting through the lost and found box.  That box had a stigma.  The items were unwanted, and at times our lives are a bit like this.  We were in a heap of unwanted, unclaimed, discarded people, but He reached in and chose us.  The difference between us and the clothing in the lost and found box is that someone wanted us.

And it was HIS LOVE that brought Him to us.  As Romans 5:8-10 states, “While we were yet sinners, he died for us.”  While we’re still at odds with Him (in that lost and found box), He completed the work for our restoration.  The mastery of this incredible work was accomplished while we were oblivious to Him or the miracle of His love.

While His enemies rejoiced over Him in triumph as He suffered on the cross, He was yet strong enough to complete the work of restoring us to HIM.  Even in this beaten, downcast, despised state, He was still stronger than our sin or our need.  In this weakened state, at His very worst, He was still victorious!!!How much more now, in His powerful, restored, righteous state sitting at the right hand of the Father is He able to meet our needs?

It’s in my pain and hurt that I tend to recoil from Him, I still have difficulty realizing that my hurt doesn’t cause Him to turn away.  He actually WANTS to join me there.  He pursues ME!

What could we possibly give Him that He can’t handle?

What situation do we have that can frustrate Him?

Who in our lives is so lost that He can’t save them?

Where can we go that His overcoming love can’t get to us?

What hurt goes so deep that He can’t heal it?

Why do I think because I have disbelief that that makes HIM unable?

What disappointment is so great that He can’t overcome it?

How many times can I fail that He won’t rescue?

Why do I continually doubt His love for me?

In the book, When The Glass Slipper Doesn’t Fit by Claire Cloninger and Karla Worley, the authors give us a wonderful description of HIS love.

“His capacity to love is linked to the fact that his whole nature is totally turned toward love.  In fact, he IS love.  He’s made out of it.  He’s overflowing with it.  Love is his composition and his contents.  Love is his definition and his job description.  It’s his occupation and preoccupation.  It’s his mission and his passion and his favorite pastime.  Love is who God is and what he does.  And his love comes only at one speed.  TEN Crank it up.  Floorboard it.  Pedal to the metal.  Full speed ahead.  Good days, and bad days and all in-between days, it’s coming at us.  Paid for and free for the asking, full to overflowing, broken and poured out.  I didn’t earn it, I don’t deserve it, and there’s no way I could ever pay it back, and yet it’s mine.”

“Whatever hardship, pain, struggle we suffer and deal with now, is miniscule compared to what good things He brings into our lives” (Romans 1:8).

Stop today and remember that through our helplessness, and our hurt, we have the comfort of knowing we have a soft place to fall.  If in His beaten, weakened state on the cross, He was able to conquer, He is more than able today to shine into my life with whatever I need.

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