{"id":31646,"date":"2021-06-09T20:55:21","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T20:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kinshipradio.org\/home\/?p=31646"},"modified":"2021-06-09T20:55:21","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T20:55:21","slug":"flawless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kinshipradio.org\/home\/flawless\/","title":{"rendered":"Flawless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-266x266 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/kinshipradio.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/diamond-1475978_1280-450x450.png\" sizes=\"(max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kinshipradio.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/diamond-1475978_1280-450x450.png 450w, https:\/\/kinshipradio.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/diamond-1475978_1280-80x80.png 80w, https:\/\/kinshipradio.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/diamond-1475978_1280-36x36.png 36w, https:\/\/kinshipradio.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/diamond-1475978_1280-180x180.png 180w, https:\/\/kinshipradio.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/diamond-1475978_1280-120x120.png 120w, https:\/\/kinshipradio.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/diamond-1475978_1280-45x45.png 45w\" alt=\"\" width=\"526\" height=\"526\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">It was a rough week. People I love were hurt in a way that only love can hurt. The wound is still so fresh and so deep t<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">hat writing down the details now in blog for all the world to see would make the wound deeper and hurt more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">But, out of that pain and hurt came something I cannot keep to myself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">I was praying while I was driving to work for those people I love that the Holy Spirit would minister to them and c<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">onsole them in their grief and, in one of those rare moments of my life, I briefly felt the magnitude of God&#8217;s love touch me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">There are no words to adequately describe it. I can say that I knew deep in my soul that God loved the people I love more than I could ever imagine or comprehend.\u00a0 The magnificence and power of it overwhelmed me and brought me to tears.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Paul wrote about that love gloriously in Ephesians 3:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>And may you have the power to u<\/strong><\/span><strong style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">nderstand, as all God\u2019s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is.\u00a0May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Vs. 18&amp;19a (NLT)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Too great to understand fully. Amen, Paul.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">I&#8217;m certainly not going to try to outdo the guy who wrote more of the New Testament than anyone else in trying to describe the love of God in Jesus Christ. Paul writes as if that love had physical dimensions, and not just the normal three&#8211;he writes as if the love of God has four dimensions &#8211;as if it transcends our comprehension of the universe itself!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">It made my whole day entirely different. That the person in front of me was driving slightly slower than the speed limit and didn&#8217;t instantaneously notice that the light had turned green no longer mattered in the light of that love. People seemed different knowing how much they are loved by God.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Later in my day, I was once again driving and the song &#8220;<em>Flawless<\/em>&#8221; by MercyMe came over Kinship Christian Radio.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><em>Could it possibly be<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><em>That we simply can&#8217;t believe<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><em>That this unconditional<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><em>Kind of love would be enough<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><em>To take a filthy wretch like this<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><em>And wrap him up in righteousness<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><em>But that&#8217;s exactly what He did<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">And my eyes started to sting again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><em>No matter the bumps<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><em>No matter the bruises<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><em>No matter the scars<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><em>Still the truth is<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><em>The cross has made<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><em>The cross has made you flawless<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><em>No matter the hurt<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><em>Or how deep the wound is<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><em>No matter the pain<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><em>Still the truth is<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><em>The cross has made<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><em>The cross has made you flawless.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Oh LORD! Oh Jesus!\u00a0 That you would love me so much that death on a cross was worth it to make me <em>flawless<\/em> is so beyond words!\u00a0 That I could come before the God of the universe, the God of all, completely cleansed and made whole is&#8230;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">There is nothing I can say.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">And as I was pondering all this, it occurred to me that of course I could not describe the love of God. For if God is infinite, His love can also be nothing <em>but<\/em> infinite.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">And flawless.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>Today&#8217;s Praise<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"ujudUb\"><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><em><strong>Take a breath smile and say<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"ujudUb\"><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><em><strong>Right here right now I&#8217;m ok<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><em><strong>Because the cross was enough.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">(Lyrics from &#8220;Flawless&#8221; by MercyMe.)<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>God&#8217;s infinite love in Christ Jesus is what cures us. 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