Our Awesome God

Your love is extravagant 

Your friendship it is intimate 

I feel like moving to the rhythm of Your grace 

Your fragrance is intoxicating in our secret place 

Your love is extravagant 

Spread wide in the arms of Christ is the love that covers sin 

No greater love have I ever known You considered me a friend 

Capture my heart again

~"Your Love is Extravagant" by Darrel Evans (Song by Casting Crowns)

God is awesome.

So why do we have to say "capture my heart again"? Shouldn't it be "You have already captured my heart and now it's yours for eternity"? Yes, in a certain sense, but the reality is more like "You have captured my heart, but I have forgotten just how much purpose your love brings to my once-filthy heart, so would You capture it again...and again...and again?" It sounds like a sad truth, but it is in fact one of the many things about us that makes God so awesome: the less capable we are of finding God's love extravagant, the more His grace opens our eyes to the truth of His sacrifice on our part. So as long as we are in search of His glory, God will continue to reveal Himself to us in new ways. As long as we seek to do His will with joy and utter satisfaction, He will honor it one way or another. It pleases God to satisfy us with Himself. And the comforting part about it is that He is the only one who can intimately know and have a friendship with each and every person that lives, has lived, and will live on this earth.

God's love covers our sin. What does that mean exactly? It means that our righteousness comes from Jesus alone. When we stand before the judgment seat of God someday, nothing we have ever done will get the slightest bit of merit. Only what is sinless will remain, and if Jesus is within us, he will remain as our first and only righteous identity. That is true grace, incredible love, and one simply awesome God for you!

And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit. ~2 Corinthians 3:18 (ESV)