Endless Love

Last night I couldn't get to sleep and I found myself thinking about how very much God loves us and always has. I thought about how easy it would have been for Him to stop with Adam and Eve when they messed up. He so easily could have said "That's it. They had their chance. Everything was absolutely perfect for them, but they had to go and eat from the one tree I told them not to!" And again with the people of Noah's day... He could have said "No more! They are so wicked; I'm done with them!" There are so many more examples, but I thought about the Israelites, and how they prayed and prayed that He would rescue them from captivity; then when He finally does, they complain about the conditions and wish they were back in Egypt. Oh how He could have called it quits right then...I mean, if at any of these times He had decided enough was enough, there would not have been a reason for His Son to die. I guess it's just hard for me to wrap my head around that kind of love that would put up with so much from the very ones He created for his glory. And that love that began way back before time is still very much alive today! That love, wrapped up in the form of Jesus, is not only with us, but in us. We live and breathe His love every single minute of every single day. This is just so amazing to me that He loves us with that kind of incredible, endless love.