{"id":26194,"date":"2015-06-08T00:15:57","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T04:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=26194"},"modified":"2015-06-07T20:26:52","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T00:26:52","slug":"drops-in-the-ocean-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2015\/06\/08\/drops-in-the-ocean-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Drops In The Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16629\" src=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg\" alt=\"psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv\" width=\"341\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg 341w, https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 341px) 100vw, 341px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I want you as you are, not as you ought to be<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Won&#8217;t you lay down your guard and come to Me<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> The shame that grips you now is crippling<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> It breaks My heart to see you suffering<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2018Cause I am for you<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> I&#8217;m not against you<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">If you want to know<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> How far My love can go<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Just how deep, just how wide<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> If you want to see<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> How much you mean to Me<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Look at My hands, look at My side<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> If you could count the times I&#8217;d say you are forgiven<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>It&#8217;s more than the drops in the ocean<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Don&#8217;t think you need to settle for a substitute<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> When I&#8217;m the only Love that changes you<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Open your heart<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> It&#8217;s time that we start again<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Open your heart<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> It&#8217;s time that we start again<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bZH13wFGffg?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Hawk Nelson<\/em><br \/>\nwriter(s): Jon Steingard; Jason Ingram; Matt Bronlee<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u271e\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 *<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">798,251,012,325,216,135,654,464,101,128,..<br \/>\n3.425 x 10^25<\/h4>\n<p>Are you able to read either of those numbers? \u00a0I&#8217;m not. \u00a0I have no concept of how many that is. \u00a0So, what do those numbers represent? They are the two most common answers to my Google search&#8230;&#8221;How many drops are in the ocean?&#8221; \u00a0And those are just best guesses based on scientific formulas. \u00a0Here is how the Bible answers that question:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The God of glory thunders\u2014 the Lord, above vast waters&#8230;.<br \/>\nPsalm 29:3b HCSB<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">He assigned the sea its boundaries and locked the oceans in vast reservoirs.<br \/>\nPsalm 33:7 NLT<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Here is the ocean, vast and wide&#8230;.<br \/>\nPsalm 104:25a NLT<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Others went to sea in ships, conducting trade on the vast waters.<br \/>\nPsalm 107:23 HCSB<\/p>\n<p>Vast, undefined, unfathomable&#8212;the drops in the ocean are beyond measure. \u00a0<strong>That is how much Jesus loves us<\/strong>. \u00a0Better yet,<em><strong> that is how many times He forgives us!<\/strong><\/em> \u00a0The Scriptures say:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">..for you have rescued me from death and <em>forgiven all<\/em> my sins.<br \/>\nIsaiah 38:17b NLT<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8230;for I will forgive their iniquity, and their <em>sin I will remember no more<\/em>.<br \/>\nJeremiah 31:34b NASB<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Truly and solemnly I say to you, <em>all sins will be forgiven<\/em> the sons of men&#8230;<br \/>\nMark 3:28a AMP<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>ALL<\/em> <\/strong>our sins are forgiven. \u00a0Not some&#8230;not several&#8230;not just certain ones&#8230;but <strong>ALL<\/strong>! \u00a0They are remembered <em>no more<\/em>. \u00a0The HCSB version of Isaiah 38:17 says &#8220;You have thrown all my sins behind Your back.&#8221; \u00a0Out of sight and out of mind.<\/p>\n<p>Think about it this way&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Even if that person wrongs you seven times a day<br \/>\nand each time turns again and asks forgiveness,<br \/>\nyou must forgive.<br \/>\nLuke 17:4 NLT<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s pretend that is the standard Jesus uses toward us&#8230;. So 7 times a day for 365 days equals 2,555 times we are forgiven in 1 year. \u00a0I am 55; so now let&#8217;s multiply 2555 times 55. \u00a0That would equal\u00a0<em><strong>140,525<\/strong><\/em> times I have been forgiven so far in my lifetime. \u00a0(And I know that estimate is WAY TOO LOW!) \u00a0I cannot imagine forgiving any one that many times. \u00a0Yet I am <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">loved and forgiven<\/span> <strong>so much more<\/strong> than that.<\/p>\n<p>Ephesians 5:2 AMP tells us &#8220;Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us, a slain offering and sacrifice to God [for you, so that it became] a sweet fragrance.&#8221; \u00a0Romans 8:31 NLT reminds us &#8220;God is for us, who can ever be against us?&#8221; \u00a01 Thessalonians 5:9 declares &#8220;For God chose to save us through our Lord Jesus Christ, not to pour out His anger on us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>God is for us, not against us! He is:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; with us (Isaiah 8:10)<br \/>\n&#8211; bearing our burdens and carrying us each day (Psalm 68:19)<br \/>\n&#8211; with us; He is our leader (2 Chronicles 13:12)<br \/>\n&#8211; will fight for us (Nehemiah 4:20)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">That&#8217;s how far His love can go for us.<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> That is how much we mean to Him.<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> That\u2019s how deep, how wide His love is for us.<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<strong><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">More than the drops in the ocean<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want you as you are, not as you ought to be Won&#8217;t you lay down your guard and come to Me The shame that grips you now is crippling It breaks My heart to see you suffering \u2018Cause I am for you I&#8217;m not against you If you want to know How far My [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":16629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4937],"tags":[5889,8836,1287,425,8470,553,8989,8988,8987,8986,4932],"class_list":["post-26194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psalms-hymns-and-spiritual-songs","tag-cynda-cottrill","tag-drops-in-the-ocean","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-isaiah-3817","tag-jeremiah-3134","tag-jesus-forgives-us","tag-jesus-love-us","tag-luke-174","tag-mark-328","tag-psalms-hymns-spiritual-songs","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39pHp-6Ou","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26194"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26196,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26194\/revisions\/26196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}