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A thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come so that they may have life and have it in abundance.
John 10:10, CSB
God wants to give us all good things according to His will, while those who oppose God restrict, mar, and damage what should be good. God offers life and the ability to truly desire what is truly good and to promote goodness.
“This is my command: Love one another as I have loved you.”
John 15:12, CSB
God wants to give us all good things according to His will, and His will is found in loving Him by loving others and especially loving the Church.
This is how we have come to know love: He laid down his life for us. We should also lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.
1 John 3:16, CSB
We work in this world to usher others into the rest of Christ, knowing Christ paid for our eternal rest through His agonizing death because of His love for us.
“Imprint these words of mine on your hearts and minds, bind them as a sign on your hands, and let them be a symbol on your foreheads.”
Deuteronomy 11:18, CSB
God has told us what is good and expects us to follow, and He proved His love by adopting us through the blood of Christ. Now, we imprint His goodness on our hearts by the power of the Holy Spirit because of the imprints of the nails on Christ’s hands amd thorns on His head.
Mankind, he has told each of you what is good and what it is the Lord requires of you: to act justly, to love faithfulness, and to walk humbly with your God.
Micah 6:8, CSB
Micah re-worded the two greatest commandments of loving God and loving others. The message has not changed, only that God became human in the person of Jesus to show us what it means.
“If your presence does not go,” Moses responded to him, “don’t make us go up from here.”
Exodus 33:15, CSB
God loves us, and if He calls us to something then we can know He is with us. If we are wise, we know He is always with us, though we may be out of step with Him.
This is what the Lord God says to these bones: I will cause breath to enter you, and you will live.
Ezekiel 37:5, CSB
God loves us and calls us to life in Him. He can revive us from spiritual deadness, and we have hope in Christ for the resurrection from the dead and eternity with Him.
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is very powerful in its effect.
James 5:16, CSB
God’s love for us is expressed through forgiveness, and He calls us to confess our sins even to each other so that we may join in Hisbloving work and bring healing to our relationships, our thoughts, our emotions, and our bodies.
“Ask, and it will be given to you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and the door will be opened to you.”
Matthew 7:7, CSB
God loves us and wants what’s best for us. He calls us to seek Him first and foremost, and He will meet all our needs.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Genesis 1:1, CSB
God is love, which is why He created everything: to make people to share in His love. May we love the God who created us and this universe we call home.
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