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Dec 1, 2021 · When we start to love people as God does, we help establish unity in the church, create harmony in our homes, and present a powerful witness in the world because our love for each other distinguishes us as Christ’s disciples (John 13:35).
- Consider David
- Consider Ruth
- Consider Esther
- Consider Elizabeth
- Consider Mary, The Mother of Jesus
It’s no secret that David struggled with doubts of God’s care and concern. In Psalm 13:1 we see David crying out to God, “How long, O LORD? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?” He was anointed as the next king of Israel, yet was chased in the wilderness for years on end by Saul who longed to see him dead. Yeah, if ...
Ruth was a Moabite who married a Jewish man, only to see her husband, father-in-law, and brother-in-law die in a famine. Left with only a despondent mother-in-law, do you think she had doubts about God’s presence in her life? I would have. Yet God was doing something, wasn’t He? He was taking her to His people. He was giving her one of the greatest...
Talk about a girl forgotten! Esther was a lowly Jewish girl in the Persian empire during the time of Israel’s captivity. Her parents were dead (Est. 2:7), and the responsibility of raising her fell to her cousin Mordecai. Do you think Esther ever felt a wee bit small? Think she ever struggled? We like to jump straight to the part when she becomes q...
Righteous before God, “walking blamelessly in all the commandments and statutes of the Lord” (Luke 1:6), and yet childless. Do you think Elizabeth ever questioned God’s involvement in her life? Year after year her deepest longing went unfulfilled. Why aren’t you doing anything LORD?I know I would have said it. Yet God was doing something. He hadn’t...
Standing at the bottom of the cross, watching her Son endure unfair, excruciating pain, do you think she wondered why God wasn’t doing anything? Where are you God? Why is this happening? But God was doing something. He was saving the world; He was saving her. Things aren’t always as they seem, my friend. What we might label the hardest thing we’ve ...
Jul 4, 2014 · Mark this well: there is nothing that can divorce God's people from His love— not even ourselves. Coram Deo. Many Christians will accept that nothing outside of ourselves can separate us from God's love, but they live with the constant fear that they might jump out of the Lord's saving hand.
Nothing that is high above the world can do that, nor anything that is deep down below the ground. Nothing else in the whole universe can stop God from loving us. Because of our Lord Christ Jesus, we know how much God loves us.
Jan 16, 2001 · But when a human act does not conform to the standard of love, then it is not right, nor good, nor perfect. This law of divine love accomplishes in a person four things that are much to be desired. First, it is the cause of one’s spiritual life.
First, there is God’s love of benevolence, wherein God has a good will towards everybody, both believers and non-believers. Second, there is the beneficent love of God, or that love by which God gives benefits to people whether they’re believers or not believers: “The rain falls on the just as well as on the unjust” (Matt. 5:45).
Nov 13, 2023 · The Lord empowers us to be “imitators of God, as beloved children.”. Only then are we able to “walk in love, just as Christ also loved [us]” (Ephesians 5:1-2). And when we do, we carry out something grand and glorious—and are blessed as a result. Bible in One Year: Acts 10-11.
