Cool Quote Friday

I think I'm going to start a trend on my blog called, you guessed it, "Cool Quote Friday." I've just been going through this great devotional book called Devotional Classica and I'm amazed at some of the things I'm learning and reading and absorbing. It's too good just to keep to myself. I have to share. So, I'm beginning with something from Soren Kierkegard. Please forgive me if I've spelled his name wrong. I don't have the book directly in front of me. I copied the quote into my journel and forgot to copy his name down but I do think I got it correct. Someone help me out with this one if I messed up. This one is a prayer and it's absolutely beautiful.

So anyway, here goes!

"You have loved us first, help us never to forget that You are love so that this sure conviction might triumph in our hearts over the seduction of the world, over the iniquities of the sould, over the anxiety of the future, over the fright of the past, over the distress of the moment. But grant also that this conviction might discipline our soul so that our heart might remain faithful and sincere in the love which we bear to all those whom You have commanded us to love as we love ourselves.

You have loved us first, O God, alas! We speak of it in terms of history as if You have loved us first but a single time, rather than without ceasing You have loved us first many times and every day and our whole life through."

He goes on to say that if we were to wake and at that very moment turn to him he has already loved us first and if in the middle of the day we were to pray to him he has already loved us first. Every time we think we are waiting on him, he has already loved us first.

What a wonderful truth to rest in. God is Love. He loved me first this second.
How do you ever offer enough thanks just for that?