Reflecting on the Greatest Love of All

PAD Challenge day 9: For today’s prompt, write a reflection poem. 

this prompt was perfect timing;

I've been reflecting on the word 'salvation' since we looked it up the other night...

Have you ever looked up the meaning?

or its antonyms?!

Have you reflected recently on the height, depth and breadth of God's love

and where we would be without it?
Does it then not fill you with humble awe?!

...and then, today's devotion;

The love of God, ah, who can find

In all the universe

More sure salvation for mankind

To break damnation’s curse

And who through all the world can boast

Save in what Love has giv’n

The love that gave His uttermost

To ope the gates of Heav’n

Where hope in He whose love secures

The soul from death and hell

Is the confidence that assures

Believers, it is well

Grief is not chief; or darksome fears

No sorrow can exceed

The love that ministers to tears

And supplies our need

The love of God unshakeable

Humble belief instills

And works in us the miracle

Our final breath fulfills

© Janet Martin

no one can return from The Great Beyond to tell us its Mysteries...
but one thing is sure; we will all find out for ourselves and who knows when?
Have you made room in your heart for the Greatest Love of All?

 I am the Lord, and there is no other;
    apart from me there is no God.
I will strengthen you,
    though you have not acknowledged me,
⁶ so that from the rising of the sun
    to the place of its setting
people may know there is none besides me.
    I am the Lord, and there is no other.
⁷ I form the light and create darkness,
    I bring prosperity and create disaster;
    I, the Lord, do all these things.

⁸ “You heavens above, rain down my righteousness;
    let the clouds shower it down.
Let the earth open wide,
    let salvation spring up,
let righteousness flourish with it;
    I, the Lord, have created it.

⁹ “Woe to those who quarrel with their Maker,
    those who are nothing but potsherds
    among the potsherds on the ground.
Does the clay say to the potter,
    ‘What are you making?’
Does your work say,
    ‘The potter has no hands’?
¹⁰ Woe to the one who says to a father,
    ‘What have you begotten?’
or to a mother,
    ‘What have you brought to birth?’

¹¹ “This is what the Lord says—
    the Holy One of Israel, and its Maker:
Concerning things to come,
    do you question me about my children,
    or give me orders about the work of my hands?
¹² It is I who made the earth
    and created mankind on it.
My own hands stretched out the heavens;
    I marshaled their starry hosts.

Isa.45:5-12 NIV