OUR GOD=CHERISHES US

OUR GOD=CHERISHES US!


Our God=the God of POWER
And LOVE=despite ALL our evil=
And our cruelty


CHERISHES US=with a love
Like no other=we BELONG to him


“My DWELLING shall be with them
I will BE their God=
And they shall be
MY PEOPLE” Ezekiel 37:27


And we are HIS people=and
He DWELLS in us=as we SEEK
To dwell in him


The Old Testament
SPEAKS of God's wrath=
God and Israel do BELONG
To each other


God has the POWER
But he also feels the MERCY
For us


And we have the laws=
The COMMANDMENTS=and ALL
Of his LOVE


Our God does
Really CHERISH US
Our God
Really does DWELL
Within us


“The one who gets WISDOM
LOVES LIFE


The one who CHERISHES=
Understanding=will soon PROSPER” Proverbs 19:8


“If I had CHERISHED
Sin in my heart


The LORD
Would NOT have listened” Psalm 66:18


Jesus COMES to us
This HOLY WEEK


First to our CHEERS=
Then to our betrayal


He IS a God
Who WANTS to love on us
Who wants to
DWELL in us


HE CHERISHES US!


He is our God=our Jesus
Who loves us=
Who cherishes=who
Wants to DWELL in us


“Then have them
MAKE a sanctuary
For me


And I will DWELL
Among them


Make this tabernacle
And all its furnishings
EXACTLY like the pattern
I will show you” Exodus 25:8


“I pray that out
Of his glorious riches


He may STRENGTHEN you
With POWER
Though his SPIRIT


In your INNER BEING
So that Christ
May DWELL in your HEARTS
Through FAITH” Ephesians 3:16-17


But LOOK what happened
To Jesus=we smashed him
Like a fly


Yet=despite our cruelty=
OUR GOD CHERISHES US!


He LOVES us forever
And TEACHES us both
To give and receive MERCY


I LOVE YOU LORD!
In Jesus' name


Robert P. Wallman
3-23-18




Ps INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Eve Tushnet