Tag: Love
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Open Hands
Psalm 145:16 “You open your hand; you satisfy the desire of every living thing.” There are many things that only God can do. He alone controls the weather. He alone sustains the universe by His mighty power. The sun continues to shine, the moon continues to rotate around the earth, the plants continue to grow and produce…
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A Glorious Goal
1 Timothy 1:5 “But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.” What benefit is there in reading and studying God’s Word? Why do it? Why did those who wrote it do so? Surely there are many reasons. However, in one of the clearest…
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First Things First
Luke 10:42 “. . . Mary has chosen the good portion” Mary and Martha were sisters. Both of them loved Jesus, and “Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus (their brother)” (John 11:5). Yet, Jesus commended Mary for something she did, while He, ever so gently, rebuked Martha. This was not Jesus’ mother Mary. Mary…
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Demonstrating Grace
2 Corinthians 1:1-2 “Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the church of God that is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.” Sometimes it’s so easy to think about…
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Army of God
Numbers 10:35 “And whenever the ark set out, Moses said, ‘Arise, O Lord, and let your enemies be scattered, and let those who hate you flee before you.’” Have you ever thought much about what the ark of the covenant that rested within the holy of holies of the tabernacle represented? It was a box…
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Fisher of Men
1 Thessalonians 2:19 “For what is our hope or joy or crown of boasting before our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not you?” A friend of mine died the other day. Ralph was a believer. He was kind. He had a gentle manner that was an example I looked up to. Ralph had…
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Spiritual Siblings
2 Thessalonians 2:13-14 “But we ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord” When God blesses us with the gracious gift of eternal life through faith in His Son, He becomes our Father. What an unspeakable blessing it is to know that we have a God Who loves us as His…
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Beginning Well, Yet . . .
Revelation 2:1-4 “To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: . . . I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first.” How many things in life begin well but end poorly? How many marriages are like this? How many good intentions never get off the ground? How…
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THIS is the Life!
1 Thessalonians 3:8 “For now we live, if you are standing fast in the Lord. “ Have you ever heard or used the phrase “Life is good!”? Perhaps you’ve heard it put this way “This is the life!” What is usually meant when we hear this phrase is that we are enjoying life at that moment. Whatever…
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A Great Debt
Romans 13:7-8 “Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed. Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.” You’ve heard this…
To Encourage You 