Absolute, Sovereign, Almighty Love

Solid Joys Daily Devotional

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🗓️ 3 October 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

God does not need us. Instead, his infinite self-sufficiency spills over in love to us who need him.

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0:00.0	October 3, Absolute, Sovereign, Almighty Love.
0:08.0	The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious,
0:12.3	slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.
0:17.3	Exodus 34, 6, God abounds in steadfast love and faithfulness.
0:25.8	Two images come to my mind.
0:28.4	One, the heart of God is like an inexhaustible spring of water
0:33.5	that bubbles up love and faithfulness at the top of the mountain.
0:37.9	Century after century, the spring keeps on flowing.
0:43.4	Two, or the heart of God is like a volcano that burns so hot with love
0:49.3	that it blasts the top off the mountain and flows year after year
0:54.8	with the lava of love and faithfulness.
0:58.3	When God uses the word abounding, abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness,
1:06.5	He wants us to understand and feel that the resources of His love
1:12.2	are not limited. You can drink at this mountain spring all day, year after year,
1:20.7	generation after generation, and it never runs dry.
1:26.7	You might even risk saying that God is like a government that simply prints
1:32.6	more money when there's a need. Inexhaustible, right?
1:38.3	Well, there's a difference. God has an infinite treasury of
1:45.4	golden love to cover all the currency he prints.
1:50.6	The government is in a dream world. God banks very realistically
1:56.2	on the infinite resources of His deity. The absolute existence,
2:04.3	the sovereign freedom and the omnipotence of God are the volcanic fullness that
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