Nothing can separate us from the love of our heavenly father!

This week of LOVE encompasses so much more than a romantic notion... Love of a parent, child, friend, neighbor...just a reminder...there is no fear in LOVE. Sister Robin continues to look at the story of Ruth and the many forms of love shared in the lineage of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!

“When I came to the spring today, I said, ‘Lord, God of my master Abraham, if you will, please grant success to the journey on which I have come. See, I am standing beside this spring. If a young woman comes out to draw water and I say to her, “Please let me drink a little water from your jar,” and if she says to me, “Drink, and I’ll draw water for your camels too,” let her be the one the Lord has chosen for my master’s son.’

“Before I finished praying in my heart, Rebekah came out, with her jar on her shoulder. She went down to the spring and drew water, and I said to her, ‘Please give me a drink.’

In this month of Love we are sharing the different ways in which God's love is shown throughout the Bible. This morning, Sister Cynthia takes a look at the Book of Ruth and the many different ways love is shown and honored...

Listen to my words, Lord,

 In the morning, Lord, you hear my voice;

“I have loved you with an everlasting love;

Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.  These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts.  Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.  Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.  Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.

Jesus answered, “I told you that I am he. If you are looking for me, then let these men go.”  This happened so that the words he had spoken would be fulfilled: “I have not lost one of those you gave me."

Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.. Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.

For God the greatest lover 

so loved to the greatest degree 

the world the greatest number

 that God gave the greatest act 

The only begotten Son the greatest gift 

that whoever the greatest invitation

 believes the greatest simplicity 

in Him the greatest person 

should not perish the greatest deliverance

 but the greatest difference 

have the greatest certainty 

eternal life the greatest grace.