The story behind "Amazed by His Love"

The story behind the title of this blog site really came from my first few weeks in the hospital in February 2010. I learned back then that we can especially know his amazing love even when life is at its worst. Reading through the New Testament while in the hospital, I took note of how many times the word “amazed” is mentioned. At one point, I was taking in one of these verses in Mark 2 where Jesus healed a paralyzed man. Verse 12 says, He got up, took his mat and walked out in full view of them all. This amazed everyone and they praised God, saying, "We have never seen anything like this!" Those words really stood out to me: This amazed everyone. At that very moment, I was listening to a song “Amazed” by Jared Anderson. The key words of the chorus go like this: “Lord I am amazed by you, Lord I am amazed by you, Lord I am amazed by you, and how you love me.”

It made me think back to when Debbie and I visited our former pastor, Mark Fuller, who now pastors in Grove City, Ohio. Debbie and I were back in Cincinnati for a company Christmas party and decided to go see him on a Sunday. One of the key points I remember Pastor Mark talking about was God’s amazing love. He said, “When you really come to understand how much God loves you, it will totally transform your life.” I have always known God loves me, but not until those first two weeks in the hospital have I ever experienced the overwhelming deepness of his love that moved me to tears. I remember going back to that panoramic view of Pikes Peak and just thanking God for loving me that much. I think Paul gives us a little insight into the concept of God's love in Ephesians 3:14-19:
For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

You can listen to the song Amazed here

Amazed by His Love,

Terence