Whatever human conception about love, I consider it ever durable in our world! Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Love is the most durable power in the world.” After all, love does not die through the human experience of death! I concur that a person’s most beautiful asset is not a head full of knowledge but a heart full of love, and an ear ready to listen and a hand willing to help others! Never let your love for others…
Madeleine L’Engle said: “How often we children have been unwilling: unwilling to listen to each other, unwilling to hear words we do not expect. But on that first Pentecost, the Holy Spirit truly called the people together in understanding and forgiveness and utter, wondrous joy. The early Christians, then, were known for how they loved one another. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if people could say that of us again? Not an exclusive love, shutting out the rest of the world,…
1. “As a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.” 2. “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places.” 3. “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.” 4. “Now…
Yes, when you cooperate with Jesus Christ, you turn your weaknesses into an opportunity to benefit from HIS miracle. The servants under the direction of Jesus Christ were in an unusual niche of blessing for this miracle. Jesus liked the cooperation of men in this miracle. He could have filled the pots Himself or just as quickly created the liquid in the pools. But He knew that if the attendants experienced in work, they also shared in the blessing. What?…
Jesus started this wonder by utilizing what was within reach. He might have provided more wine in quite a few different ways. However, He began with what was there (John 2:6-7). Yes, according to the manner of purification of the Jews: The waterpots are associated with the arrangement of Law since they were utilised in stately decontamination. Yes, concerning the containing twenty or thirty gallons apiece saw significance for preachers in John’s approximate number; C. H. Spurgeon said: “Let us…
1. “And I will give them one heart, and a new spirit I will put within them. I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh.” 2. “Teach me your way, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth; unite my heart to fear your name.” 3. “And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with…
Yes, call it oneness or undivided, and I will remind you of a few things you are missing when you are divided! Have you not heard the saying of Nicholas Blewett: “Love cannot exist when there is a self. Love is boundless. It is selfless, and therefore it exists beyond the confines and limitations of the self. Love is much more than a word: It is an immeasurable force that only exists when there is no division when one is…
Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt said: “Avoid dividing the world into “us” and “them.” If you do, you will harden your heart. There are not two worlds, one in God’s hands and the other one not. There are not two species of people either, one totally under God’s rule and the other completely outside of it.”
1. “If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you, you shall support him as though he were a stranger and a sojourner, and he shall live with you.” 2. “The rich and the poor meet together; the Lord is the maker of them all.” 3. “For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake, he became poor so that you by his poverty might become rich.” 4….
Someone once said about Christianity, and I quote: “To live with Jesus is to live with the poor.” Have you not heard that there are differences between being poor in spirit and living in poverty? A Scottish proverb says: “Do not judge by appearances; a rich heart may be under a poor coat.” Anne Frank said: “No one has ever become poor by giving.” I like it when I hear that we are here on earth to do good, but what…