God's Love

God's Living Truth

A Point to Ponder...

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Perhaps the best known verse about God's love is John 3:16
"For God so loved , that He gave His only begotten Son,
that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish,
but have everlasting life."
God's love is shown in Romans 5:8,
"But God commended His love toward , in that,
while were yet a sinner, Christ died for ."
This love that God has given to us is in our hearts
by the Holy Spirit as Rom. 5:5 tells us.
And hope does not make us ashamed,
because the love of God has been poured
out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit given to us.

This love that God gives us, makes us strong and
we will be able to overcome temptation when it
comes. 1 Cor 10:13" There hath no temptation
taken but such as is common to man: but God is
faithful, who will not suffer to be tempted above
that ye are able; but will with the temptation also
make a way to escape, that may be able to bear it." (KJV)

The most wondrous thoughts of this love is that
we have became conquerors just as Paul tells
us in Romans 8:37 Nay, in all these things we are
more than conquerors through him that loved us." (KJV).
In the next couple of verses Paul tells us that
nothing could separate us from this love,
lets see what he said in Romans 8:39
Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature,
shall be able to separate from the love of God,
which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.(KJV)

God's love is so great for us that
He has done everything, just so
may enjoy that love, even to the
point of sending His only begotten
Son here in this world, that is full
of sin and pervertiness. To become
fully man, yet He is still fully God,
Jesus left His throne in heaven to
come to earth as a servant to serve
and save us from ourselves and
our selfish ways. In John 12:47
And if any man hear my words, and believe not,
I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world,
but to save the world. (KJV).

Jesus came to save us because we are
sinners, Romans 3:23 For all have sinned,
and come short of the glory of God; (KJV)
and in Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death;
but the gift of God is eternal life
through Jesus Christ our Lord. (KJV).
was spiritually dead because of your sin
and Jesus came and died in 's place,
so that may have eternal life in Christ.
As Romans 5:5 And hope maketh not ashamed;
because the love of God is shed abroad in our
hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto ." (KJV)

This was done by God, that we maybe like Him
and love one another as Jesus commanded in
John15:12This is my commandment,
That ye, , love one another,
as I have loved you.(KJV).
Thus we fulfill the law as we love one another,
just as Romans 13:10 tells us,
Love worketh no ill to his neighbor:
therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. (KJV)

God's love goes way beyond our minds grasp
that I find it hard to put into mere words.
Gods word tells it the best, but I'm but a
lowly sinner, who was saved by this
precious love that God has so graciously given me.
I would not know what love was if Jesus
had not given me His love to share,
which I must share His love, so it may be
perfected in me. Let's look at 1 John 4:12
No man hath seen God at any time. If we
love one another, God dwelleth in us,
and his love is perfected in us."
This love must not be shared with just mere
talk, but by our deeds and our true feelings ,
as outlined in 1 John 3:18 My little children,
let us not love in word, neither in tongue;
but in deed and in truth." (KJV)

Isn't it such a wondrous thing how God can
do all these things through such a wretch as me,
but because Christ loves me.... and you ,
we can be assured by His precious Blood
that we are covered with His love just as
He tells us in 1 PETER 4:8"
And above all things have fervent charity
among yourselves: for charity shall cover
the multitude of sins." (KJV) The word
charity means agape (love), which is Gods
unconditional love. How do we receive this love?
It is free! 1 John makes real it simple to understand,
let's look at 1 John 4:19'
"We love him, because he first loved us." (KJV)
He loved us first and it is His love that teaches
us to love. After all the fruit of the Spirit is
love,Galatians 5:22-23" But the fruit of the
Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness,
goodness, faith, meekness, temperance.
Against there is no law."

You see here that the fruit is love,
the rest of the terms are all love in its
many different forms. For an example
joy is love smiling in it's happiness,
peace is love resting in its calmness,
longsuffering is love waiting,
kindness is love showing itself sensitive to others feelings,
goodness is love making allowances and sacrifices for others,
faithfulness is love proving constant,
gentleness is love yielding, and
temperance is love triumphing over selfish inclinations.

Since God is love, His Spirit ripening in us
will always produce love in all its wondrous
varieties. I could go on and on about Gods
love for there is a book on Gods love and
tells us all we could know about Gods love.
If you interested in this book,
just pick up your Bible that is God's Book of Love.

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