What Does God’s Love Do?
Good Morning Friends,
There are uncertainties in life. And sometimes rather sobering and sudden judgement. The deal is that God has given us life limits that we cannot pass. There are also different seasons in our life. Then when the end is expected and the mana’s expiration date has long passed… when nothing is left, when everything tumbles in, when the precarious dependence
of our human existence asks God to enter the picture., then we discover the answer to today’s question. What Does God’s Love Do?
Scripture: and when the Lord your God gives them over to you and you defeat them, then you must utterly destroy them. Make no covenant with them and show them no mercy. Do not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons, for that would turn away your children from following me, to serve other gods. Then the anger of the Lord would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly. But this is how you must deal with them: break down their altars, smash their pillars, hew down their sacred poles, and burn their idols with fire. For you are a people holy to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on earth to be his people, his treasured possession. It was not because you were more numerous than any other people that the Lord set his heart on you and chose you—for you were the fewest of all peoples. It was because the Lord loved you and kept the oath that he swore to your ancestors, that the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who maintains covenant loyalty with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations, and who repays in their own person those who reject him. He does not delay but repays in their own person those who reject him. Therefore, observe diligently the commandment—the statutes, and the ordinances—that I am commanding you today. If you heed these ordinances, by diligently observing them, the Lord your God will maintain with you the covenant loyalty that he swore to your ancestors; he will love you, bless you, and multiply you; he will bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the issue of your flock, in the land that he swore to your ancestors to give you. You shall be the most blessed of peoples, with neither sterility nor barrenness among you or your livestock.
Deuteronomy 7:2-14 (NRSV)
Then he told them a parable: “Look at the fig tree and all the trees; as soon as they sprout leaves you can see for yourselves and know that summer is already near. So also, when you see these things taking place, you know that the kingdom of God is near. Truly I tell you, this generation will not pass away until all things have taken place. Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
Luke 21:29-33 (NRSV)
For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.
John 3:16 (NRSV)
Message: The last couple of devotionals we have been exploring our satisfaction level with the Gospel of Salvation and whether we desire a more active role in the Gospel of the Kingdom. The thing is that the solemn assurance our salvation is awesome but there is so much more to a relationship with God. The beauty is that we can partner with the Lord and through the supernatural hand of Jesus defeat those things that would keep us in the wilderness instead of entering the land of promise. Here God’s love saves, refreshes and compels us to be obedient. Here the love of God prompts us to turn to God for the things we need for victory. Friends, we have been chosen, even though we do not deserve it. But there comes a time when the masks must come off and we realize that out of death comes life. Perhaps this very fact is God’s way of breaking through the crust of our pride and the seed of our self-reliance to spout something new. It is the advent of the bridegroom and the marriage of the Lamb of God and more. Friends, when everything is wiped away…when nothing is left…only God remains. And God is more than enough. For if we keep attached to the old we will miss the blessings that God has in store for each one of us. We cannot live in the past. The best is yet to come and God has many other things in store for us if we just submit to the Holy Spirit and allow God to renew our mind.
Pray we accept God’s love and discover its abundance. Pray we seek new mercies every morning. Pray we are saved, healed and delivered. Pray we realize that we are saved by grace. Pray we want to be more like Christ. Pray we run the race of mankind with the company of the faithful. Pray we embrace an adventure that never disillusions and outlasts even heaven and earth. Pray we love as God loves us with a love that lasts. Pray we reach next generation with the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Blessings,
John Lawson
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