LOVE

Were you to choose one attribute of God that stands out above all others, what would it be?  I suspect for most of us it would be the word LOVE. Without God, love does not exist.

As children many of us memorized John 3:16 from the King James Version.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

This foundation is the truth upon which the entire Gospel is based. Without God’s love for mankind, there is no Gospel.

Perhaps more than any other disciple, John knew with no doubt that he was loved by God. He often referred to himself as the disciple whom Jesus loved or the beloved disciple. In the book of First John, he reminds us time and time again just how great is God’s love for us.

Do you understand just how much God loves you?

Years ago I challenged a group of ladies to write out John 3:16 and make it personal. I encourage you this week to take time and do this exercise. Write this verse as if it was written just for you, a child beloved by God.

Join me this week as we praise Him for HIS LOVE!

Sunday Supplication

Father God, I praise You this week as the One who loves me beyond anything I could ever imagine. You loved me so much that You sent Your Son, Your One and Only Son, to give His life for me. As I praise You this week as my Loving God, I ask that you fill my heart with an understanding of just how precious is Your love for me. AMEN! SO BE IT!

Monday Manna

Rend your heart and not your garments. Return to the LORD your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and he relents from sending calamity.

Joel 2:13

Tuesday Treasure

For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 8:38-39

Wednesday Wisdom

But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 2:4-7

Thursday Truth

See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

1 John 3:1

Friday Fact

If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God. And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.

1 John 4:15-16

Saturday Song