“Listen to me, you descendants of Jacob, all the remnant of the people of Israel, you whom I have upheld since your birth, and have carried since you were born. Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you" Isaiah 46:3-4.
People are scared of being left alone when they age. A lot of them feel lonely and forgotten. However, God is different than people. His love never ends. He never loses sight of you. He cared about you when you were born, He cares about you now, and He will care about you forever. People value youth, strength and beauty, and neglect the old people. God is different. He cares about everybody despite of their age. Trust Him whatever your age is. God loves you and cares about you, and He will do it FOREVER.
Showing posts with label God's love. Show all posts
Showing posts with label God's love. Show all posts
Thursday, May 21, 2020
Tuesday, May 12, 2020
Not that we loved God
"This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins" 1 John 4:10.
We can boast as much as we can about our love for God, but the fact is that He loved us first and we can only love Him back. And we can love back when we experience His love, get soaked in it, saturated with it, and spend a lot of time thinking about it. He is the source of love. In the Old Testament, the law required people to love God. In the New Testament, God came in the person of Jesus and showed love, He supplied love. That is the only reason why we can love Him back.
But we must stay in His love. Peter wanted to prove his love for Jesus, and said that even if all the apostles rejected Him, he would never reject Jesus. The fact is that Peter rejected Jesus the same night and 3 times with swearing and cursing. You cannot trust yourself or your love for God. It's is not stable, and fluctuates to often. You need to have a source to draw from. God is our source of love. So, it is not about our love. We have to receive first before we can give. Why? Because you cannot give what you do not have. And if you want to continually show God's love for others you have to continually receive and experience God's love for yourself. Let's stay in His love.
We can boast as much as we can about our love for God, but the fact is that He loved us first and we can only love Him back. And we can love back when we experience His love, get soaked in it, saturated with it, and spend a lot of time thinking about it. He is the source of love. In the Old Testament, the law required people to love God. In the New Testament, God came in the person of Jesus and showed love, He supplied love. That is the only reason why we can love Him back.
But we must stay in His love. Peter wanted to prove his love for Jesus, and said that even if all the apostles rejected Him, he would never reject Jesus. The fact is that Peter rejected Jesus the same night and 3 times with swearing and cursing. You cannot trust yourself or your love for God. It's is not stable, and fluctuates to often. You need to have a source to draw from. God is our source of love. So, it is not about our love. We have to receive first before we can give. Why? Because you cannot give what you do not have. And if you want to continually show God's love for others you have to continually receive and experience God's love for yourself. Let's stay in His love.
Monday, April 20, 2020
Love casts out fear
"Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in
love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment.
But he who fears has not been made perfect in love" 1 John 4:18.
Fear and love never stay together. One casts another out. People throughout centuries feared God. In a wrong way. They did not know Him. They saw a distorted picture of Him. They were scared to be punished and sent to hell. Some have the same image of God today. A picture of an angry God is a wrong picture. Apostle John confirms that. He says that we may have boldness in the day of judgment. Not fear judgment, but have boldness in that day. You have been justified by faith in Jesus, and you will not be punished for your past sins.
Your love for God draws you closer to Him. You know that He had forgiven your sins, and this knowledge removes fear from your heart. The fact that He loved you so much that He gave His only Son for you does something even more. It breeds love for God/Jesus in your heart.
No more slaverish fear of judgment and of God. You love Him. Yes, there is a different kind of fear of God that the Bible talks about. That fear means you shun everything that God does not like. That type of fear is not a feeling. It is your desire and a decision to behave in a way that God likes. It's just like when you love somebody, you don't do (at least try not to) things the person does not like. It is the same with our relationship with God. You don't do things you don't like because you love Him.
He loves you and you love Him back. The slaverish fear pushes us away from God. The love that we have in our hearts for Him, pushes us closer to Him. You cannot have both. God loves you, Jesus paid price for you sins. He was punished for you. Punishment does not belong to you. If you meditate on that, this will cast away fear. Who or what should you fear if the creator of the Universe loves you and is on your side? Trust Him.
Fear and love never stay together. One casts another out. People throughout centuries feared God. In a wrong way. They did not know Him. They saw a distorted picture of Him. They were scared to be punished and sent to hell. Some have the same image of God today. A picture of an angry God is a wrong picture. Apostle John confirms that. He says that we may have boldness in the day of judgment. Not fear judgment, but have boldness in that day. You have been justified by faith in Jesus, and you will not be punished for your past sins.
Your love for God draws you closer to Him. You know that He had forgiven your sins, and this knowledge removes fear from your heart. The fact that He loved you so much that He gave His only Son for you does something even more. It breeds love for God/Jesus in your heart.
No more slaverish fear of judgment and of God. You love Him. Yes, there is a different kind of fear of God that the Bible talks about. That fear means you shun everything that God does not like. That type of fear is not a feeling. It is your desire and a decision to behave in a way that God likes. It's just like when you love somebody, you don't do (at least try not to) things the person does not like. It is the same with our relationship with God. You don't do things you don't like because you love Him.
He loves you and you love Him back. The slaverish fear pushes us away from God. The love that we have in our hearts for Him, pushes us closer to Him. You cannot have both. God loves you, Jesus paid price for you sins. He was punished for you. Punishment does not belong to you. If you meditate on that, this will cast away fear. Who or what should you fear if the creator of the Universe loves you and is on your side? Trust Him.
Thursday, March 12, 2020
Nothing will separate you from the love of God
"For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord" Romans 8:38-39.
In the time of the outbreak of the corona-virus, we need something stable to rely on. That something is the love of God. Nothing can separate us from it. A lot of things can threaten you. The world is full of bad news. You need to hear good news in the midst of the turmoil that is there. What is the good news? God loves you. He loves you very much. He gave himself, to be humiliated, beaten, spat on, to get you closer to the kingdom of heaven, where love, joy, peace, and righteousness live. In the middle of this mess the world is in, you should contemplate about God's love. He will always love you. Never forget about that. He will never forget you. He is always close to you. He always loves you. Praise God.
In the time of the outbreak of the corona-virus, we need something stable to rely on. That something is the love of God. Nothing can separate us from it. A lot of things can threaten you. The world is full of bad news. You need to hear good news in the midst of the turmoil that is there. What is the good news? God loves you. He loves you very much. He gave himself, to be humiliated, beaten, spat on, to get you closer to the kingdom of heaven, where love, joy, peace, and righteousness live. In the middle of this mess the world is in, you should contemplate about God's love. He will always love you. Never forget about that. He will never forget you. He is always close to you. He always loves you. Praise God.
Monday, June 24, 2019
The magnitude of Jesus' forgiveness
34 Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing” Luke 23:34.
These words came out of Jesus lips right before his death. He was persecuted, slandered, arrested, beaten, spat on, hung on the cross, ridiculed on the cross, and after all these things He asked God to forgive those evil people their sins. WOW! Can there be greater forgiveness than that? Nope. God Himself was humiliated, beaten and rejected. Yet, He decided to forgive. Amazing love!
We all are sinners. We do not deserve forgiveness. But He gave it to us all for free. He does not hold a grudge against us. He forgave. He does not remember your sins anymore. His love for you is everlasting. Accept His forgiveness. Embrace His love. God is good for you. Your sins are forgiven. Your Savior died for you on the cross. Receive His forgiveness and be free from your sins.
These words came out of Jesus lips right before his death. He was persecuted, slandered, arrested, beaten, spat on, hung on the cross, ridiculed on the cross, and after all these things He asked God to forgive those evil people their sins. WOW! Can there be greater forgiveness than that? Nope. God Himself was humiliated, beaten and rejected. Yet, He decided to forgive. Amazing love!
We all are sinners. We do not deserve forgiveness. But He gave it to us all for free. He does not hold a grudge against us. He forgave. He does not remember your sins anymore. His love for you is everlasting. Accept His forgiveness. Embrace His love. God is good for you. Your sins are forgiven. Your Savior died for you on the cross. Receive His forgiveness and be free from your sins.
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Understanding Christ love
Ephesians 3:18: “..may have power,
together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high
and deep is the love of Christ…”.
We often tend to think about God’s love in terms of ours. We think that
He loves as much as we do. Some of us even think that we probably love one
another more than He does. We think so, because we tend to define his love by
the way we feel, circumstances we are in and other external things. The only
way to define God’s love is to believe in what He did – gave His only begotten
Son for us. That is the depth, the length, the height and the strength of his
love.
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