Gods Love

I was reading I John through this evening, and I gained a totally new glimpse of God's incredible, awesome love for us.
I was just sitting there in a little room in the North River church thinking to myself, "wow!" God could use beautiful, perfect, shining angels to reach the lost of this earth (which would be SO more effective). But, wait! He doesnt! He uses us...silly, stupid, obnoxious, sinners. We under-estimate God, we grumble and complain when God has PROMISED to give us everything we need, we dont obey His amazing commission to tell the world about Him... we cheat, we lie, we hurt God day in and day out with our silly sinfulness and selfishness. But God uses us! He has chosen us to be the messengers of His amazing love and forgiveness. He looks past our short comings, and sinfulness and all our mistakes and hang ups. He loves us so much He says "You, Carol, are the person I have chosen! You are to bring MY people to me. I dont want an angel to do this job. The reason is this job is the most important job in the world to me. I love you so much that I am honored and privileged to give this job to you. Accept my love, and go share it." Wow.... really amazing. Really, really amazing.

During the sermon this last sabbath Malcom shared Acts 6:15. He also shared the story of this non-english speaking family that came to SEYC two weeks ago. Someone asked them afterwards if they understood any of the words being spoken. The man said, "Oh no... we couldnt understand the words. But we came because the faces of those involved in the program shone like angels faces." Wow, my face shone like an angel?! This is what God does to us! He makes us shine like angels.

It is so exciting to be involved in reaching out to people! This series of meetings at Chattanooga, and also the series I will be holding in Arizona is going to be simply amazing because God is using us and shining through our faces so that when others see us, they see the faces of angels.