The picture of true love that Paul describes is based on a heart that literally seeks greater and greater humility, steadily becoming more and more like Jesus Himself! That person is wholly affected because they've come to understand that the more humble they become, the more they become like Jesus! Isn't that the very essence of being and living life as a Christian?

One day, I know that I will see Him face to face and my faith will become sight. At that point, faith will no longer be needed because it will be replaced with unquenchable facts- facts that will never be withdrawn or changed. I will see His wounds. I will see His face. I will sense His deep love for me. I will feel the blessing of His Presence, His Lordship, His deity, His beauty. I will willingly fall at His feet and kiss those feet as Mary did when she broke open that alabaster container of oil.

One day, I know that I will see Him face to face and my faith will become sight. At that point, faith will no longer be needed because it will be replaced with unquenchable facts; facts that will never be withdrawn or changed. I will see His wounds. I will see His face. I will sense His deep love for me. I will feel the blessing of His Presence, His Lordship, His deity, His beauty. I will willingly fall at His feet and kiss those feet as Mary did when she broke open that alabaster container of oil.

Some of the very same tenets pushed by those who had embraced either Theosophy or Buddhism during Pember's day -more accurately reflected today as New Age-, are the exact same tenets being pushed today. This is not by accident, but by design.

Some of the very same tenets pushed by those who had embraced either Theosophy or Buddhism during Pember's day (more accurately reflected today as New Age), are the exact same tenets being pushed today. This is not by accident, but by design.

We continue in Daniel 4 with the prophet Daniel explaining the meaning of Nebuchadnezzar's dream to him and the ramifications of it. Daniel closes his interpretation with an exhortation to the king to begin living righteously and to take care of the poor as a changed life may avert God's coming judgment on Nebuchadnezzar.

For Jesus, it was the joy that He knew He would experience by successfully navigating the upcoming illegal trials, the beatings, the mockings, the brutal death on the cross itself and the separation from His own Father. It was that joy that He beheld that gave Him what He needed to look beyond the actual downsides associated with His upcoming death on the cross. He succeeded because He fixed His gaze on the solution that the Father provided rather than the temptation.

We continue in Daniel 4 with the prophet Daniel explaining the meaning of Nebuchadnezzar's dream to him and the ramifications of it. Daniel closes his interpretation with an exhortation to the king to begin living righteously and to take care of the poor as a changed life may avert God's coming judgment on Nebuchadnezzar.

For Jesus, it was the joy that He knew He would experience by successfully navigating the upcoming illegal trials, the beatings, the mockings, the brutal death on the cross itself and the separation from His own Father. It was that joy that He beheld that gave Him what He needed to look beyond the actual downsides associated with His upcoming death on the cross. He succeeded because He fixed His gaze on the solution that the Father provided rather than the temptation.

God tried to teach His complete sovereignty to Nebuchadnezzar -Daniel 2-3-, but the king had not learned his lesson. Verse 17 states God's supremacy over all Creation - the theme of the entire book of Daniel. The king asks Daniel to interpret the meaning of the dream. The soothsayers were unable to offer any type of explanation or interpretation. Nothing at all.