God’s Love Letter
How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! (1 John 3:1)
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Check the Box
This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 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 4:9-10)
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True Love
How full is your love meter these days? Have you been loving others in the way that God loves you? Love means not being critical, judgmental, and bitter towards others. Love means putting on the fullness of Christ and walking out the righteousness we’ve been called to daily. Let’s check in with the Apostle John and see just how well we’re doing with this whole Love thing!
Dear friends, let us love one another…
John starts out this passage of Scripture with an appeal in brotherly love. “Dear friends…” We are all in this journey of life together, now let us do the one thing that will make this journey go well… Let us love one another! “Let us…” There is an opportunity that is awaiting us in this passage of Scripture, an opportunity to love and soon we will find out why we have been given such an extraordinary experience!
Finders Keepers
…greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. (1 John 4:4, KJV)
May you find God faithful in your life this week. And even more than that, may you choose to be faithful to God. Faithfulness to God comes out of a heart that chooses to live daily for Him, despite what the circumstances may be. Remember, that “He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.” When you wake up in the morning, declare that this day will be for the Lord. May you live it out for Him to the best of your ability. Read this story about a little boy about to go into surgery and examine your heart today!
Unwrap A Gift
We love because he first loved us. (John 4:19)
Yesterday I celebrated my one year anniversary with my husband. I still can’t believe we have been married one year! God has been so good to me. It makes me think back to when I wrote my vows for our wedding day. I reme
mber thinking love is a choice. Yes, I felt in love with Paul. I loved him with all my heart, but I knew there would be days where we wouldn’t see eye to eye on things, so I wanted my vows to reflect what Jesus would want from me in my marriage. I am able to love because God first loved me. Is this not one of the greatest gifts we have in life? I have the freedom to love my husband because God has decided to love me first. He has shown His love through His faithfulness in every story throughout the Bible, but most of all through the birth, life, death, and resurrection of His Son.
Now I have the choice, the opportunity to love my husband! Wow! So this takes me back to a moment on Clearwater Beach where I said some very important vows to my husband that I meant with my entire heart. Here is just a small portion of those vows…