God's Love Among Us

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.

 

1 John 4:9

So Do Not Fear

So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

 

Isaiah 41:10

Where Is Your Hope

 

 

"The Lord is my portion," says my soul, "therefore I will hope in him."

 

Lamentations 3:24

 

As We Remain In God

 

And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and the one who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

 

1 John 4:16

 

God's ways may be baffling, but His character is not.

 

He is a God of love, a God who loves each of us beyond measure.

 

God can be trusted.

 

But unless we are willing to jump… His trustworthiness will be simply a useless, unproven, untheological , rather than a powerful, personal, life-changing reality.

 

This "jump" doesn't mean diving out of a plane and praying for angels to arrive. Instead, it's a deeply personal experience in which God shows Himself to us in an undeniable way, resulting in our own reassurance that despite what happens, God is trustworthy.

 

Maybe we have made it through past issues but fret about the future, feeling either gripped by fear or resolved to conquer what lies ahead with sheer determination.

 

After all, we have made it this far; why turn the reins over to God now?

 

The path God leads us on doesn't always seem best. And still, it is hard enough to entrust our future to Him and harder still as we venture through rough terrain. But in the midst of our dusty, often frustrating journey, we can take these words to heart: God will always, always come through in the end.

 

He is faithful by nature.

 

God has a greater purpose for our future than we could ever devise (See Jeremiah 29:11), and He will see us through as we follow Him.

Will Not Be Moved

Will Not Be Moved

By: Natalie Grant

 

I have been the wayward child

I have acted out

I have questioned Sovereignty

And had my share of doubt

And though sometimes my prayers feel like

They're bouncing off the sky

The hand I hold won't let me go

And is the reason why

 

[Chorus]

I will stumble

I will fall down

But I will not be moved

I will make mistakes

I will face heartache

But I will not be moved

On Christ the Solid Rock I stand

All other ground is sinking sand

I will not be moved

 

Bitterness has plagued my heart

Many times before

My life has been like broken glass

And I have kept the score

Of all my shattered dreams and though it seemed

That I was far too gone

My brokenness helped me to see

It's grace I'm standing on

 

And the chaos in my life

Has been a badge I've worn

Though I have been torn

I will not be moved

A Reflection Of God Even In Your Attitude

How lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord Almighty!

 

Psalm 84:1

 

 

A rotten attitude is easy to come by when things are not going so great or how we planned them to. Though if we are longing to be a reflection of God, to the world around us, we need to demonstrate it even in our attitude.

 

We see in the life of Jesus that He denied self and worked toward a powerful witness to the reality of God's selfless love. He understood as He walked this earth that certainly not everything goes according to plan.

 

Think about a recent difference of opinion you had with someone.

 

What was the root cause of this disagreement?

 

Do you think you glorified God with the attitude that was displayed in this situation?

 

Do others see the dwelling of the Lord Almighty in your attitude?

 

A Word About Love

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.

 

Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;  does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

 

Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.

 

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.

 

And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

 

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

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