Posts Tagged ‘ Love ’
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant
1 Corinthians 13:4, ESV
God loved us enough to humble Himself to die in our place.
We are saved by grace through faith, not by anything we do.
If we love God and others, we have no reason to boast of our gifts or salvation, so we humbly declare to others the love of Gkod.
“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.”
Matthew 5:4, ESV
We mourn our sin, and we are comforted by Christ’s grace and love. We then mourn the sin of the world and carry that grace and love to others.
My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
Psalm 121:2, ESV
Our Maker – who made everything – wants to give us all His love, wisdom, and grace to help us through this life and into the next.
Trust in God.
By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
1 John 3:16, ESV
God showed His love by becoming like one who hates Him (us) to pay our penalty.
We too can love those who offend us – and even who make us happy – by sacrificing our own feelings, wants, needs, and even lives.
The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.
Luke 6:45, ESV
It is what we treasure that flows out of us.
Do we long for personal satisfaction, or do we long for God to be glorified out of our love for Him and therefore our love for others?
The only good in us is God in us.
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world.
1 John 2:15-16, ESV
We love the people in the world, but only with the love of God. We must love His Word, His commandments, and His gospel, not the pleasures and desires of this world.
Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.
1 Timothy 6:12, ESV
The fight of faith is to glorify God. That means that we work out salvation and openly seek to grow in Christ to bring others to faith!
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
Deuteronomy 6:5, ESV
Our God has saved us. How could we not want to live Him with everything we are?
for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
2 Timothy 1:7, ESV
Our God loves enough to come and die in our place of punishment and overcome death. What should we fear? How much should we now strive to serve Him faithfully?
with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love
Ephesians 4:2 ESV
We all have sinful pasts, so let us show grace and love, remembering where we come from and that God has done the same for us.
a simple man of God 