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Thoughts in Worship
Message Magazine's Online Devotional for Friday, June 23, 2017
Audio Link: https://www.spreaker.com/user/reachmanyradio/thoughts-in-worship-06-23-2017
This is devotional thought number one in our devotional series, “Essentials of Faith.” Our subject is “God’s Love for Me.”
Here’s the question for consideration: How may I be absolutely certain God loves me?
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.” (John 3:16–17).
How does the God in your mind look at you when He sees you? Does He have a scowl on His face? Is He accusatory, pointing His finger and shaking His head?
Let me tell you, if God were in the gotcha business, our geese would be cooked! He’s got the goods on all of us. He sees when we are sleeping. He definitely knows when we're awake. He knows the deepest thoughts, intentions, and emotions of our hearts. He has a faithful record of all of it, but He loves us anyway. The problem over which most of us who even countenance the idea of God must struggle is we have a warped view as though He’s waiting for the opportunity to give us “what we got comin.” What a horrible view of our heavenly Father.
God loves us so much! This is where you say, “how much?” God loves us so much that He gave us the deepest, most valuable essence of Himself in the Person of Jesus Christ so we could have eternal life. That would be great were it that He sent an ambassador to facilitate our release from cosmic prison, but it’s infinitely more. Words fail to express the depth of His love here. Jesus, who is one with the Father, consented to assume human form to feel your pain, suffer your hunger, handle your temptations, experience your poverty, overcome your sleepless nights, die your death, feel your beatings, and infinitely more, so you could live above sin and survive the final destruction of sin and unrepentant sinners. Jesus did not come here to spy on us and report to our evil deeds to His Father. He came as the personification of love. He came to provide victory over every besetting sin, all filthy thoughts, and all traces of unholiness. God loves us so much that Jesus gave His life to save every repentant liar, proud person, addict, alcoholic, adulterer, blasphemer, murderer, and anyone else who was once overcome by sin.
I hope you can see, in few inadequate words, how the King loves you. He could have easily created more compliant beings who’d serve Him without reservation to replace the defective models we are, but He chose to give feeble human beings the privilege to receive His power to show how powerful a motivator love can be.
I am certain God loves me, because He gave His best Gift, Jesus, to save me from eternal damnation and grant me the blessing of being His friend forever.—L. David Harris (www.DavidWritesaLot.com)
Message Magazine's Online Devotional for Friday, June 23, 2017
Audio Link: https://www.spreaker.com/user/reachmanyradio/thoughts-in-worship-06-23-2017
This is devotional thought number one in our devotional series, “Essentials of Faith.” Our subject is “God’s Love for Me.”
Here’s the question for consideration: How may I be absolutely certain God loves me?
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.” (John 3:16–17).
How does the God in your mind look at you when He sees you? Does He have a scowl on His face? Is He accusatory, pointing His finger and shaking His head?
Let me tell you, if God were in the gotcha business, our geese would be cooked! He’s got the goods on all of us. He sees when we are sleeping. He definitely knows when we're awake. He knows the deepest thoughts, intentions, and emotions of our hearts. He has a faithful record of all of it, but He loves us anyway. The problem over which most of us who even countenance the idea of God must struggle is we have a warped view as though He’s waiting for the opportunity to give us “what we got comin.” What a horrible view of our heavenly Father.
God loves us so much! This is where you say, “how much?” God loves us so much that He gave us the deepest, most valuable essence of Himself in the Person of Jesus Christ so we could have eternal life. That would be great were it that He sent an ambassador to facilitate our release from cosmic prison, but it’s infinitely more. Words fail to express the depth of His love here. Jesus, who is one with the Father, consented to assume human form to feel your pain, suffer your hunger, handle your temptations, experience your poverty, overcome your sleepless nights, die your death, feel your beatings, and infinitely more, so you could live above sin and survive the final destruction of sin and unrepentant sinners. Jesus did not come here to spy on us and report to our evil deeds to His Father. He came as the personification of love. He came to provide victory over every besetting sin, all filthy thoughts, and all traces of unholiness. God loves us so much that Jesus gave His life to save every repentant liar, proud person, addict, alcoholic, adulterer, blasphemer, murderer, and anyone else who was once overcome by sin.
I hope you can see, in few inadequate words, how the King loves you. He could have easily created more compliant beings who’d serve Him without reservation to replace the defective models we are, but He chose to give feeble human beings the privilege to receive His power to show how powerful a motivator love can be.
I am certain God loves me, because He gave His best Gift, Jesus, to save me from eternal damnation and grant me the blessing of being His friend forever.—L. David Harris (www.DavidWritesaLot.com)
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Thoughts in Worship
Message Magazine's Online Devotional for Friday, June 23, 2017
Audio Link: https://www.spreaker.com/user/reachmanyradio/thoughts-in-worship-06-23-2017
This is devotional thought number one in our devotional series, “Essentials of Faith.” Our subject is “God’s Love for Me.”
Here’s the question for consideration: How may I be absolutely certain God loves me?
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.” (John 3:16–17).
How does the God in your mind look at you when He sees you? Does He have a scowl on His face? Is He accusatory, pointing His finger and shaking His head?
Let me tell you, if God were in the gotcha business, our geese would be cooked! He’s got the goods on all of us. He sees when we are sleeping. He definitely knows when we're awake. He knows the deepest thoughts, intentions, and emotions of our hearts. He has a faithful record of all of it, but He loves us anyway. The problem over which most of us who even countenance the idea of God must struggle is we have a warped view as though He’s waiting for the opportunity to give us “what we got comin.” What a horrible view of our heavenly Father.
God loves us so much! This is where you say, “how much?” God loves us so much that He gave us the deepest, most valuable essence of Himself in the Person of Jesus Christ so we could have eternal life. That would be great were it that He sent an ambassador to facilitate our release from cosmic prison, but it’s infinitely more. Words fail to express the depth of His love here. Jesus, who is one with the Father, consented to assume human form to feel your pain, suffer your hunger, handle your temptations, experience your poverty, overcome your sleepless nights, die your death, feel your beatings, and infinitely more, so you could live above sin and survive the final destruction of sin and unrepentant sinners. Jesus did not come here to spy on us and report to our evil deeds to His Father. He came as the personification of love. He came to provide victory over every besetting sin, all filthy thoughts, and all traces of unholiness. God loves us so much that Jesus gave His life to save every repentant liar, proud person, addict, alcoholic, adulterer, blasphemer, murderer, and anyone else who was once overcome by sin.
I hope you can see, in few inadequate words, how the King loves you. He could have easily created more compliant beings who’d serve Him without reservation to replace the defective models we are, but He chose to give feeble human beings the privilege to receive His power to show how powerful a motivator love can be.
I am certain God loves me, because He gave His best Gift, Jesus, to save me from eternal damnation and grant me the blessing of being His friend forever.—L. David Harris (www.DavidWritesaLot.com)
Message Magazine's Online Devotional for Friday, June 23, 2017
Audio Link: https://www.spreaker.com/user/reachmanyradio/thoughts-in-worship-06-23-2017
This is devotional thought number one in our devotional series, “Essentials of Faith.” Our subject is “God’s Love for Me.”
Here’s the question for consideration: How may I be absolutely certain God loves me?
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.” (John 3:16–17).
How does the God in your mind look at you when He sees you? Does He have a scowl on His face? Is He accusatory, pointing His finger and shaking His head?
Let me tell you, if God were in the gotcha business, our geese would be cooked! He’s got the goods on all of us. He sees when we are sleeping. He definitely knows when we're awake. He knows the deepest thoughts, intentions, and emotions of our hearts. He has a faithful record of all of it, but He loves us anyway. The problem over which most of us who even countenance the idea of God must struggle is we have a warped view as though He’s waiting for the opportunity to give us “what we got comin.” What a horrible view of our heavenly Father.
God loves us so much! This is where you say, “how much?” God loves us so much that He gave us the deepest, most valuable essence of Himself in the Person of Jesus Christ so we could have eternal life. That would be great were it that He sent an ambassador to facilitate our release from cosmic prison, but it’s infinitely more. Words fail to express the depth of His love here. Jesus, who is one with the Father, consented to assume human form to feel your pain, suffer your hunger, handle your temptations, experience your poverty, overcome your sleepless nights, die your death, feel your beatings, and infinitely more, so you could live above sin and survive the final destruction of sin and unrepentant sinners. Jesus did not come here to spy on us and report to our evil deeds to His Father. He came as the personification of love. He came to provide victory over every besetting sin, all filthy thoughts, and all traces of unholiness. God loves us so much that Jesus gave His life to save every repentant liar, proud person, addict, alcoholic, adulterer, blasphemer, murderer, and anyone else who was once overcome by sin.
I hope you can see, in few inadequate words, how the King loves you. He could have easily created more compliant beings who’d serve Him without reservation to replace the defective models we are, but He chose to give feeble human beings the privilege to receive His power to show how powerful a motivator love can be.
I am certain God loves me, because He gave His best Gift, Jesus, to save me from eternal damnation and grant me the blessing of being His friend forever.—L. David Harris (www.DavidWritesaLot.com)