1. “Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.” 2….
What? Yes, unconditional love is the greatest gift! For example, what can we do to make God loves us less or more? I say ‘nothing.’ There is no one more than God Himself; therefore, God is love!!! Don Chipp said: “The greatest gift on the planet is to love and be loved.” Rejection of unconditional love attracts the gravest of all punishment! Undoubtedly, “For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son so that everyone who…
Thornton Wilder said: “Soon we shall die and all memory of those we have known will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead, and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only…
1. “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.” 2. “A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with…
Does it matter what you are passing through or what encounter you right now? Are you on the mountain top of life or valley deepest of daily experience? Indeed, the God of the mountain top is the God of the valley most resounding! Have you not hear Him saying to you: “When you go through deep waters, I will be with you. When you go through rivers of difficulty, you will not drown. When you walk through the fire of…
Atar Hadari said: “Psalm 23 is perhaps the single most famous psalm. You can explain to a child that this is a sheep’s portrait of a shepherd. The sheep may stray, but it knows that the shepherd will pull it back from the cliff. The shepherd will find the sheep the tender grass, not the dry stalks; a quiet bit of the river, not a raging part where the current could sweep an animal away.”
1. “For there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, ‘You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land. In all things, I have shown you that by working hard in this way, we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.” 2. “Whoever is generous to…
n Matthew 25:35-40, Jesus touches on the complete body of spiritual knowledge in Christian ethics! The Scriptures furnish six out of the list of the seven corporal works of mercy in Christian ethics (v35), the seventh being found in the care and nurture of the fatherless. Just at the point when somebody strips another of their garments, they are known as cheaters/thieves. Ought not somebody who can dress the bare yet doesn’t do as such be understood as something similar?…
Basil the Great said: “When someone strips another of his clothes, he is called a thief. Should not someone who has the power to clothe the naked but does not do so be called the same? The bread in your larder belongs to the hungry. The cloak in your wardrobe belongs to the naked. The shoes you allow to rot belong to the barefoot. The money in your vaults belongs to the destitute. You do injustice to everyone who you…
1. “In all things, I have shown you that by working hard in this way, we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.” 2. “Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.” 3. “Bring the…