Loyal Love // Micah

Loyal in Hebrew (kheh-sed) speaks to one who is “faithful and unswerving in allegiance.” In Psalms 145:8, God identifies Himself as one who “...is patient and demonstrates great LOYAL love.” To become a child of God through the grace of Jesus Christ is to be adopted as a Son or Daughter of God. To become recipients of reliable, constant and steadfast love. No matter what tosses us to and fro, nothing can deter God’s constant loyal love. He is the anchor for both the boat on the placid lake and the skiff on stormy sea.

Romans 8:38 “And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God's love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow--not even the powers of hell can separate us from God's love.”

- Micah McElveen

Unavoidable Penetration // Micah

Coffee in hand, I sat in my living room meditating the day in. This particular morning, my routine was filled with a fanciful thought, “What if darkness persisted this time?” As I peered out my window, nature was aligned with the reality that apart from light darkness is comprehensive. It does indeed entirely saturate all things under its cloak. And dark it was, so dark that I momentarily questioned whether our garden, which is just a few feet away from the window, was actually still there.

My left brain knew for a fact that the sunrise was coming, but my right brain played with the thought. I took that musing into the morning's study and ran across...

John 1:4b-5 "...His life gave light to everyone. The light keeps shining in the dark, and darkness has never put it out."

As I meditated on God’s life giving truth, time passed until something happened. A ray, then another, started to penetrate the darkness. As dawn appeared, the light of the Son began to break through and a greater reality was unveiled. You see in the presence of light darkness always gives way. Darkness is rendered helpless against the elements found in light and eventually, it entirely yields to its superior and unavoidable penetrative power.

Psalm 119:105 “Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path.”

John 12:36a “'Believe in the light while you have the light, so that you may become children of the light…’"

Matthew 5:16 “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven."

- Micah McElveen