Tag: love of God
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Earnest Love
1 Peter 4:8 “Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.” How earnestly do you love? What’s the extent of it? How far does your love stretch before it breaks? What’s its “tensile strength,” if you will? We can get some insight into this from the verse above. In essence…
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“Love is Love.” Really?
John 15:9 “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love.” If you were to attempt to explain to someone how much God the Father loves God the Son, what words would you use? Or would words fail you? One of the words that comes to my mind as…
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Life on the Third Level
1 Peter 3:9 “Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing.” In Warren Wierbe’s commentary on 1 Peter entitled “Be Hopeful,” he makes the following statement: “As Christians, we can live on one of three levels.…
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“Love” Defined
1 Peter 1:22 “Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart” One of the most loosely used words in our world today is the word “love.” Jesus told us that to love was the greatest commandment of God. Listen to His words,…
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Father
1 Peter 1:17 “And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one’s deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile.” One of the ways that God relates to us in His Word is through words that reflect relationships that we are very familiar with. In the…
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Immeasurable
Ephesians 2:7 “. . . immeasurable. . .” Everything about our God is immeasurable. It’s something that is impossible for our finite minds to grasp, yet God would have us to meditate on this truth, for He’s filled His Word with it. God’s Word itself is immeasurable. It’s an infinite book. There’s none other like…
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The Deep
Romans 8:38-39 “For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” How sure are you of…
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A Love “From Below”
2 Samuel 13:1 “Now Absalom, David’s son, had a beautiful sister, whose name was Tamar. And after a time Amnon, David’s son, loved her.” “Love is love.” It’s a phrase that we see more and more these days. But what does it mean? Do those who are saying it and posting it to social media know what…
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Jehovah Jireh
Nehemiah 9:18-21 “Even when they had made for themselves a golden calf and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ and had committed great blasphemies, you in your great mercies did not forsake them in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud to lead them in the way did not depart from them by day, nor…
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Jealousy
Psalm 48:14 “This is God, our God forever and ever.” The Bible tells us that God is a jealous God. In fact, one of His names is Jealous (Exodus 34:14). Doesn’t that seem strange? Usually, we think of jealousy in a negative sense. One of the dictionary definitions of this word is “feeling or showing…
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