Lavish....

Lavished....

Lavish...it just sounds extravagant, luxurious, generous...

I have a huge bathtub that I rarely use..I feel like it is too good to use...it takes almost a whole tank of hot water to fill...and I can totally immerse myself in it..and it feels sooo good when I do...totally warm, refreshing, comforting ...and there it sits, ready to enfold, delight me with its comfort...

Do I do that with the love, the gifts that God bestows so lavishly???

In the NIV translation, "lavish" is  only found a few times...these three having to do with God's great giving of His love...He gave/gives it lavishly...even when we may not deserve it...Grace...

God is the provider...lavishing his love, his forgiveness, his redemption...that we should be called His children...what a lavish gift...costly, generous, extravagant love...

thank YOU...

Yahoo, Oxford dictionary...

lav·ish

/ˈlaviSH/

verb

• 1.bestow something in generous or extravagant quantities upon: "the media couldn't lavish enough praise on the film"synonyms:give freely to, spend generously on, bestow on, heap on, shower with

adjective

• 1.sumptuously rich, elaborate, or luxurious:"a lavish banquet"synonyms:sumptuous, luxurious, costly, expensive, opulent, ... more

Hosea 2:8 She has not acknowledged that I was the one who gave her the grain, the new wine and oil, who lavished on her the silver and gold—which they used for Baal. 

Ephesians 1:7-9 In him we have redemption through his blood, 

the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace that he lavished on us. 

With all wisdom and understanding, he made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ, 

1 John 3:1 See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.