God allows us to feel the frailty of human love so we’ll appreciate the strength of his.
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Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just; a God who is all love, but not holy; a God who has a heaven for every body, but a hell for none; a God who can allow good and bad to be side by side in time, but will make no distinction between good and bad in eternity. Such a God is an idol of your own, as truly an idol as any snake or crocodile in an Egyptian temple. The hands of your own fancy and sentimentality have made him. He is not the God of the Bible, and beside the God of the Bible there is no God at all.
J.C Ryle (via proverbs31v25)
All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen
Ralph Waldo Emerson (via proverbs31v25)
1 Corinthians 13
“More than 1 person has hailed 1 Corinthians 13 as the finest chapter in the Bible. No words get to the heart of loving people like these verses. And no verses get to the heart of the chapter like verses 4 through 8.
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 fails.
Several years ago someone challenged me to replace the word love in this passage with my name. I did and became a liar. Those words became false. And for years, that was my problem with this paragraph it set a standard I could not meet. No one can meet it. No one, that is, except Christ. Does this passage not describe the measureless love of God? Let’s insert Christ’s name in place of the word love and see if it rings true.
Jesus is patient and kind; Jesus does not envy or boast; he is not arrogant or rude. Jesus does not insist on its own way; he is not irritable or resentful; he does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Jesus bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Jesus never fails.
Rather than let this scripture remind us of a truth we cannot produce, let it remind us of a love we cannot resist – God’s love.”
Max Lucado / A Love Worth Giving
If people understood the true purpose of chastity, they would see that it has nothing to do with fear or prudishness. Nor is it a repression of sexual desires. Rather, chastity is an exercise of the will, to choose what is good, the greatest of all that is good. It is a refusal to allow the desire for pleasure to displace the call to love. Pleasure is not a bad thing, but when a person pursues enjoyment at the expense of another, love is abandoned.
It’s silly for me to think that I need to have my whole life together for Jesus to use me. If you look throughout Scripture, God uses people with messy lives to do amazing things for His kingdom. So, if you doubt yourself today, remind yourself of this: God is bigger than your mess… He can use anything to speak His truth.
l.f. (via lovechangeseverythang)
I think the most calming thing about being a Christian is that one day Jesus is going to come back and he’s not going to take all this vain stuff with Him. He’s not going to take the money, he’s not going to take your GPA, he’s not going to take your resume, not your 401k or your trophies, he’s not going to take all the books and records, or the dirty dishes in the sink. All the messy stuff in your life is going to be gone and you won’t have to worry about it because it’s dust one day.
I think we live our lives as if the things we have are all we’re going to have and that it all is of the most importance, when really it’s just dust and to dust it will return.
Mark it, when one becomes a Christian, there is a change in his relationship with sin. Sin is not eliminated in the believer until he comes to glory, but his relationship to sin is changed when he truly become a Christian.
· A Christian no longer loves sin as he once did.
· A Christian no longer brags about his sin as he once did.
· A Christian no longer plans to sin as he once did.
· A Christian no longer fondly remembers his sin as he once did.
· A Christian never fully enjoys his sin as he once did.
· A Christian no longer is comfortable in habitual sin as he once was
When your heart is a mess and it has found its way astray, send it home, send it to Christ. Let it live with Him, and know that no matter how far we have wandered; He is always with us guiding us back to where we are supposed to be, which is in His everlasting arms.
T.B. LaBerge // Go Now (via tblaberge)
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