UNFATHOMABLE

how deep the Father's love for us,
how vast beyond all measure,
that He would give His only son,
to make a wretch His treasure.

eternity and a day would not be enough time for me to understand God's love. that a self-sufficient God - one who did not need anything outside of himself - would create, release and redeem a bunch of creatures who were destructive, rebellious, and faithless. and to go to all these lengths so that these creatures could spend the rest of time with Him! it is only by the sweet grace of God that we are loved.

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith--and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God-- not by works, so that no one can boast.
~Ephesians 2:8-9~

[note: correction to yesterday's post - Paul did not write the book of Hebrews. it was not written in his style. scholars suggest it was either written by Barnabas or Apollos.]