As we explore the simplicity of love this week, today we'll look at how God's love has redeemed us.

There's an amazing Brennan Manning quote that says,

In loving me, you made me lovable.

And that's basically the concept we'll be unpacking today.

God's love has come in and given us meaning, beauty, redemption, and purpose.

It's through God loving us that we became sons and daughters, that we become saints.

And I hope today you'll open your heart up to this life-changing love and never be the same again.

Welcome to the first of team podcast.

Our verse for today comes from Psalm 130, verse 7.

Scripture says, for with the Lord there is steadfast love, and with him is plentiful redemption.

The eternal redemption afforded to us by the powerful sacrifice of Jesus

is a wonderful, life-giving demonstration of God's unconditional, unchanging love.

I've gone through so much in my life feeling condemned.

I look at my thoughts, actions, reactions, and failures, and apply my condemning perspective to my perception of my Heavenly Father.

But in reality, He has so faithfully demonstrated his overwhelming love to me through the securing of my redemption.

In reality, He truly loves me just as I am, even

with all my failures and faults. Colossians 1 19 through 22 says, for in Him all the fullness

of God was pleased to dwell, and through Him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth

or in heaven, making peace by the blood of His cross. And you, who were once alienated and hostile

in mind, doing evil deeds, he is now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him.

God sees you and me as holy and blameless.

Through His love, we've been totally redeemed, set right before the God whose perspectives and beliefs are true

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