Nothing greater than God's love

The love of God is the greatest thing that I have ever experienced in my life. It is renewed every day as I go through life as I am reminded that in the Bible it says that ?it is of the Lord?s mercies that we are not consumed because His compassions fail not, they are new every morning.? I did not know this until when I was 33 years old I received Him into my life instead of rejecting Him. Since that time I often wonder why we will reject Him, when He loves us so very much and makes a way for us in this life as well as throughout eternity.

The Bible tells us about a man named Lazarus who had two sisters named Mary and Martha, who were very close friends and believers in the Lord Jesus Christ. Lazarus became very sick, and his sisters sent and told Jesus and were looking for Him to come and probably heal Lazarus, as they had seen the miracles and healings that Jesus had been doing in His ministering to the people. Jesus did not go there right away, and Lazarus died. When Jesus got there, Lazarus had been dead four days. The sisters said to Jesus, ?If you had been here my brother would not have died.? Jesus responded. Jesus had prayed to God the Father, and then He thanked Him for hearing Him, and then He cried with a loud voice and commanded Lazarus to come forth, and Lazarus was brought back to life. Many of the people who had seen the miracles Jesus did believed in Him; but some of them went back to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done, and instead of celebrating and thanking God for what He had done, they from that day on plotted to put Jesus to death ? and also Lazarus, since because of his being brought back to life many people believed in Jesus.

Those who wanted to get rid of Jesus did so because of false doctrines, loss of position, jealousy, immoral lifestyles, corruption and other things that they did that were contrary to God and the real and right life that God wants us to have. It was their rejection of God and His ways that caused the people of Israel to be destroyed as a nation in 70 AD. Today I look at our nation and where we are going and what is happening to us, and I truly believe it is our rejection of God and His will that is bringing upon us the problems that we have.

My question: How could people reject Jesus, when He went about doing good and bringing life and hope to so many people? He did not bring death and destruction, but He brought life and hope. How can we reject Him today and look at Him as if He were some kind of criminal, when He came that we might have life and have it more abundantly? Remember, Jesus said, ?I came that you might have life and have it more abundantly.? He is still the same today as He was yesterday and will be forever, and He still loves and cares for us; and whoever receives Him, to them will He open the gates of His love and His eternal glory.