Matthew Loftus said: “Though I began my career intent on helping others, it wasn’t until I learned to submit to my neighbors and to accept their help that I recognized how I’d been holding out for the sake of my pride, allowing my desire to be a helper to overtake my love for Christ. Of course, one does not have to be struggling with sexual sin, addiction, or mental illness to benefit from this sort of honesty and accountability. Still,…
1. “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.” 2 “We love because he first loved us. If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar, for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also…
What? Yes, Jesus Christ declares “love one another”!!! It’s enticing to peruse this announcement from Jesus Christ with demoralisation. Christ was sinless and perfect, pure and excellent (Hebrews 4:15), so when He orders us to love each other the way He loved us, it’s challenging. More terrible, it can appear unthinkable: as error-prone individuals, we don’t generally feel cheerful musings about others, even individual Christians. The conviction that we’re committed to feeling great, overjoyed friendship towards others is overwhelming. The possibility…
Tim Otto said: “In a world of dazzling technological power, it’s tempting to think that we can mass-produce love. But human souls aren’t nourished by impersonal acts of care manufactured by institutions. Even God, the maker of the universe, became small to deliver love to each human soul. Let’s imitate that example.”
1. “And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.” 2 “Behold, all souls are mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins shall die.” 3 “Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became…
Eberhard Arnold said: “Our expectation of the kingdom cannot be a passive waiting, a sweet, soft occupation with ourselves and our like-minded friends. No, if we truly expect God’s kingdom, we will be filled with divine power. Then the social justice of the future – with its purity of heart and divine fellowship – will be realized now, wherever Jesus himself is present. Our belief in the future must bring change to the present! The spirit of expectation is the…
In John 6:28, the group which followed Jesus into Capernaum was looking for a rehash of the earlier day’s wonder. There, Jesus took care more than of 5,000 individuals with a small measure of food. Jesus knows, nonetheless, that their advantage is innately shallow and self-centred (John 6:26). Individuals are hung up on material things, like amusement and gifts. Christ’s talk in this entry explains that His central goal isn’t about bread or entertainment. These material things die in the…
1. “Then I heard what seemed to be the voice of a great multitude, like the roar of many waters and like the sound of mighty peals of thunder, crying out, “Hallelujah! For the Lord our God the Almighty reigns.” 2 “He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand…
Elizabeth Goudge said: “If you believe in God omnipresent, then you must believe everything that comes into your life, person or event, must have something of God in it to be experienced and loved; not hated.”
There are lessons to learn from anything that you encounter or that encounter you in life! I mean, ‘anything’! When anything annoys you, you are to learn patience and calmness. When someone you love or others abandons you, it is an opportunity for you to learn how to stand up on your own feet and look firmly on Lord Almighty! Is anything standing to offend you? See that as an avenue to further your lessons of forgiveness and compassion. It…