Fearlessly Courageous
Desk of Dennis Piller
1 20 2025

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The Love That Leaks

A love that can’t be contained, a love overflowing like a bathtub with no one watching.
It saturates everything.

That is a Christ-kind of love—endless and overwhelming. We are always asking the why question, always trying to understand the magnitude of unconditional, boundless, and sacrificial love, even unto death!  But regardless of the endless and countless ways we reject Him, His love and His grace
are ever being poured out to us.

How can we comprehend such love?

“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16)

Could you offer up your only son or daughter? I love Jesus. I even feel I would die for Him, but to do what Abraham did—to lay his promised and only son on an altar, have him gather his own wood.  Might you imagine this young boy asking, “Dad, where is the sacrifice?” And then lie him on that pile of loose wood. Don’t you believe Isaac would know by then that he was the lamb, that he was the sacrifice?

“By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises offered up his only begotten son.” (Hebrews 11:17)

Dad…Dad. This can’t be happening. Dad, I love you. Why are you doing this?

Abraham’s love was so strong, so dynamic, so overflowing that he believed—he knew—that if that knife fell, Jehovah would raise him back up.

I don’t imagine I could do that…have that kind of love. But somehow, I believe, that filled with enough of His Spirit, I might. He said we can do all things through Christ.

“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” (Philippians 4:13)

I have dear friends facing their Red Sea. His wife contracted some type of virus several months ago that affected the flow of blood from what was described as a perfect heart. But this invasion is so powerful that it has scarred her heart so severely that even her kidneys are shutting down. And I am watching her husband of 50 years stand helplessly by and give her over to God. Even though she is his life, and so much of his reason for living, he is relinquishing her by faith, and a love greater than himself to God Himself. To God’s will… for God’s ultimate purpose, even though it is ripping his heart of flesh from him. But his love for God, by faith, is standing in the face of an indescribable loss.

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.” (Proverbs 3:5-6)

A 50-year childhood love is hard to comprehend.

But isn’t unconditional love overwhelming?
God loving you and me despite ourselves is nothing less than incredibly mind-boggling.

“But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” (Romans 5:8)

Who can love that purely but God? But God has chosen to fall so head over heels in love with you… and me. Even with what he has said and spoken to us through his word…How can there be such a love?

In the natural, my friend’s love for his wife or a child may be the closest we can come…to know.

But God’s ways are so far above our ways. He is supernatural, and His love goes beyond our personal understanding and reasoning. It carries the power of life and death. It has the power to heal and set us free, and walk in the peace of that truth. It carries a power that raised His Son, and that same loving power lives in each of us.

“And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of His Spirit who lives in you.” (Romans 8:11)

Isn’t that something to get lost in?

With His love comes the promise of eternal life. He waits patiently for us to come with a humble and surrendered heart, with a willingness to change into the vessel of His choosing. He never stops loving.

“The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.” (2 Peter 3:9)

That is the living example of His Spirit given to live in us—to teach us, give us wisdom, and to love others as He does. He never gives up on us.

“We love because He first loved us.” (1 John 4:19) That means that wherever we walk, in everything we say and share, we should be leaking and spilling out the Love of God within us, even to those who are at times like us…Unlovable.

I got word a couple of hours after I wrote this that Vicky went to be with the Lord around 8 pm Sunday night. Please pray for my friend Bruce and his family…They need our love and covering!

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I have loved you   Matt Henry