Category: Love
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The Source of Love
As we begin our journey through the month of February, we begin in the book of 1 John. This letter from John, I wished we had more time to work through. John speaks about the subject of love and how to love one another. As we study today’s scripture, we are going to…
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His Mercy: Faith, Hope, Love
Many believe that Paul is the author of Hebrews. The author starts a three-step process to moving the reader to be roused spiritually and start moving forward. The first step is in today’s verse for the January Scripture writing plan: His Mercies are New each day. The author writes. “let us draw…
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February 2024 Scripture Writing Plan and Journal: God is Love
I have absolutely enjoyed this month’s theme of God’s Mercies are New each Day! I hope they have been an encouragement to you and your own spiritual journey. For February, I thought it would be a great month to focus our journey on exploring what God’s Word on the topic…
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Love – the Soul’s Passion
23 Jesus answered, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. John 14:23 So far, we have learned that we need to build our lives on a deep and solid rock foundation and when…
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Love.
Love: affection for a person or an object. There are many different attributes we could apply to the word love and most be appropriate. However, when we examine the word love from God’s Point of view, we get a very different picture of what love is. Love is the foundation…
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Hope.
Hope: the desire to see something happen or become true. It is hard to survive without hope. Because of this, we tend to put our hope in objects, experiences, and people. This leads us to great disappointments when our expectations are unrealistic and mismanaged. We need to place our hope…
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Faith.
Yesterday I wrote faith is: simply putting trust or confidence in something or someone and having a belief that is not based on proof. Worldly faith is different from the faith I am addressing here. A great example of the faith we are talking about can be found in 1…
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Only These Remain.
Paul gets right to the heart of the matter in 1 Corinthians 13. CHapter 13 of first Corinthians is commonly called the chapter on love. After describing the word love in detail, he finishes the chapter by saying that these things will last forever: faith, hope, and love. 13 Now these…
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eager anticipation keeps us living productively.
An eager anticipation of the return of Christ keeps us living a life of productivity. In scripture we find three admonitions given to us about the Lord’s return: Watch Faithfully God’s Word encourages us to: “Be alert, stand firm in the faith, be courageous, be strong.”1 Corinthians 16:13 CSB “But…
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the One who acts on our behalf.
Those who wait upon the Lord, He acts upon their behalf. Waiting for anything can be a great trial of our faith. It can cause us to loose our temper and our good sense. Just climb in the car and take a trip to the local supermarket. I see more…
It Starts Small 