GOD
LOVES YOU
BREAD
3 The LORD
appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love;
I have drawn you with loving-kindness.” Jeremiah 31:3 (NIV)
4 I led them with cords of human kindness, with ties of love; I
lifted the yoke from their neck and bent down to feed them. Hosea
11:4 (NIV)
17 “The LORD your
God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, he
will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing.” Zephaniah
3:17 (NIV)
14 Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love, that
we may sing for joy and be glad all our days. Psalm
90:14 (NIV)
8 Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for
I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I lift up
my soul. Psalm 143:8 (NIV)
12 “Let the beloved of the LORD
rest secure in him, for he shields him all day long, and the one the LORD loves rests between his shoulders.”
Deuteronomy
33:12 (NIV)
16 “For God so loved the
world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not
perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his
Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.” John 3:16-17 (NIV)
12 My
command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his
friends. John 15:12-13 (NIV)
4 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich
in mercy, 5 made us alive with
Christ even when we were dead in transgressions--it is by grace you have been
saved. Ephesians 2:4-5 (NIV)
8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this:
While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans
5:8 (NIV)
7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from
God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God,
because God is love. 9 This is how
God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that
we might live through him. 10 This
is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an
atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 Dear
friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 1 John
4:7-11 (NIV)
34 “A new command I give you: Love one
another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. 35 By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you
love one another.” John
13:34-35 (NIV)
38 For
I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither
the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither
height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate
us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans
8:38-39 (NIV)
BUTTER
“God’s love is always supernatural, always a miracle,
always the last thing we deserve.” Robert
Horn
“One reason we
don’t grow in ordinary, grateful obedience as we should is that we’ve got
amnesia; we’ve forgotten that we are cleansed from our sins. In other words,
ongoing failure in sanctification (the slow process of change into
Christlikeness) is the direct result of failing to remember God’s love for us
in the gospel. If we lack the comfort and assurance that his love and cleansing
are meant to supply, our failures will handcuff us to yesterday’s sins, and we
won’t have faith or courage to fight against them, or the love for God that’s
meant to empower this war. If we fail to remember our justification,
redemption, and reconciliation, we’ll struggle in our sanctification.” Elyse Fitzpatrick
“For the love of
God is broader than the measures of man’s mind; and the heart of the Eternal is
most wonderfully kind.” Frederick William Faber
“We all know the value of joy.
It alone is the proof that what we have really satisfies the heart. Just this makes gladness such a mighty
element in the Christian character:
there is no proof of the reality of God’s love and the blessing He
bestows, which men so soon feel the force of, as when the joy of God overcomes
all the trials of life. And for the
Christian’s own welfare, joy is no less indispensable: the joy of the Lord is his strength;
confidence, and courage, and patience finds their inspiration in joy. With a heart full of joy no work can weary,
and no burden can depress; God Himself is strength and song.” Andrew Murray
“There
is a difference between brokenness over one’s sin and living in shame for the
rest of our days. A broken and contrite
heart the Lord will never despise. This
means one agrees with the Lord that the sin was wrong and desires not to
continue on in it. It is a turning from
it into the ways of the Lord through His power, for His glory, for our
good. This leads to peace with God which
passes all understanding not continued shame over the transgression. Guilt is Satan’s trademark and often keeps
the forgiven believer paralyzed in their walk with the Lord believing
themselves to be unworthy to be used in kingdom work or even approach the
throne of grace through prayer. If Satan
can’t keep us from being saved, he desires to keep us from being used and from
feeling the comfort of God’s love and forgiveness. Believers are accepted in the Beloved.” BHY
“The
only ground on which God can forgive our sin and reinstate us to His favor is
through the Cross of Christ. There is no
other way! Forgiveness, which is so easy
for us to accept, cost the agony at Calvary.
We should never take the forgiveness of sin, the gift of the Holy
Spirit, and our sanctification in simple faith, and then forget the enormous
cost to God that made all of this ours.
Forgiveness is the divine miracle of grace. The cost to God was the Cross of Christ. To forgive sin, while remaining a holy God,
this price had to be paid. Never accept
a view of the fatherhood of God if it blots out the atonement. The revealed truth of God is that without the
atonement He cannot forgive – He would contradict His nature if He did. The only way we can be forgiven is by being
brought back to God through the atonement of the Cross. God’s forgiveness is possible only in the
supernatural realm……Once you realize all that it cost God to forgive you, you
will be held as in a vise, constrained by the love of God.” Oswald
Chambers
“Wherefore it
follows that God created the whole world for the manifestation of his love and
goodness to the rational part of the world. Therefore there will doubtless be a
time wherein God will fully manifest his love to good men, to those that answer
the end of their creation. But reason tells us that they that fully enjoy the
love of God must be exceeding happy beyond compare: for how happy are men
sometimes in the love one of another. How much more happy, then, must they
necessarily be in the enjoyment of the love of him who is infinitely greater,
better and more excellent than any creature.” Jonathan Edwards
“My hope is not in a cure today. My hope is not the
absence of suffering and comfort returned. My hope is in the presence of the
One who promises never to leave or forsake, the One who declares nothing “will
be able to separate us from the love of God.” (Romans 8:39). Nothing. Your
story is a good story. In the grief, pain and hard, the Author has a plan. It
may feel like a desperate breaking of your very heart, but suffering is not the
absence of God or good.” Kara
Tippetts
HEART
SAVOR
- · Proof of God’s love is the cross of Christ. 21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. 2 Corinthians 5:21 (NIV)
- · He Who makes known the end from the beginning has loved us with an everlasting love. His eye is ever on us for good and not evil. His heart’s desire is always for our best interest. Who couldn’t love a God like that?
- · If you seek Him, you will find Him if you seek Him wholeheartedly. He is as close as a breath.
