Creative Worship: A Love Without End...

Lamentations 3:22-23

"The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases;

his mercies never come to an end;

they are new every morning;

great is your faithfulness."

Hey everyone! Stephanie here and today I am sharing with you a page I created and taught at the Fall in Love With Jesus Creative Worship Retreat a few weeks ago! I lead a workshop about how to journal using a hymnal. Hymnals are a fun change up to bible journaling, and for me they can add a very personal and morale touch to your page. In this particular workshop I thought we would do something a little different and we cut out fall leaf shapes from the hymnal pages and used them as a focal piece in our bibles!

The theme behind our retreat this season was "falling in love with Jesus". So I chose to highlight the verse in Lamentations 3:22-23, "The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness." How great is it that we have a father that loves us unconditionally?!? A God that loves us so much that nothing we could possibly do would keep him from loving us? That's a BIG love right there.

In comparison, think about how much we love our children. Endlessly right? Well God loves us and them EVEN MORE than that! That's almost hard to wrap your mind around. His love has no beginning and no end. No matter how much we mess up; how many times we sin, if we attend church every Sunday or not, if we volunteer all of our free time to feed the less fortunate, or if we're a little more selfish with out time. No matter where you find yourself in those examples, God love us just the same. He does not keep a ledger of all the good deeds we've done, totaling them all up and then giving us a grade before walking up to the gates of heaven. No! He just wants to know that we believe he is our savior that died for our sins.

So while working on this page and thinking about this verse, the classic George Strait song "A Love Without End, Amen" popped into my head. I have always loved that song as a kid and I still do! This song talks about the various things that happen to a boy growing up and he learns that no matter what, his father always loves him, and in the end he hears those words from God. That exact thing applies to our Heavenly Father and his love for us.....

🎵George Strait 🎵

Last night I dreamed I died and stood outside those pearly dates,

When suddenly I realized there must be some mistake.

If they know half the things I've done, they'll never let me in,

Then somewhere from the other side, I heard those words again...

And they said

Let me tell you a secret about a fathers love,

A secret that my daddy said was just between us.

He said Daddies don't just love their children every now and then,

It's a love without end, amen.

xoxo,

Stephanie Gammon