Bible Verses: 1 John 4:17-211 John 5:1-12John 19:16-30Ephesians 2:15-16Colossians 1:19-22
Read MoreFor Reading and Meditation: 1 John 4:7-16
We turn now to consider another aspect of God's nature and character - love. There are three things told us in Scripture concerning the nature of God. First, "God is spirit" (John 4:24), which means He has no visible substance. Second, "God is light" (
Bible Verses: 1 John 4:7-16John 4:241 John 1:5Jeremiah 31:1-4John 3:16Romans 5:8
Read MoreFor Reading and Meditation: Ecclesiastes 7:15-18
One perplexing situation for which wisdom and a divine perspective is needed, says Solomon, is when we see the righteous suffer and the wicked prosper. The psalmist struggled with this age-old problem (particularly in Psalm 73), and so have millions since. A tyrant...
Bible Verses: Ecclesiastes 7:15-18Psalms 731 John 4:20
Read MoreFor Reading and Meditation: Hebrews 10:19-25
In every religion in the world apart from Christianity there is a note of uncertainty concerning this matter of personal salvation. Many modern religious attitudes are expressed in the limerick: For as much as without Thee We are not able to doubt Thee, O grant us Thy grace To inform the whole race That we know...
Bible Verses: Hebrews 10:19-25Romans 10:131 Thessalonians 1:1-101 John 2:3-61 John 3:16-201 John 4:13-161 John 5:10
Read MoreFor Reading and Meditation: 1 John 4:7-21
There have been two great attempts to find God throughout the ages," said Dr. E. Stanley Jones, "one, philosophy, the other, moralism." The attempts of philosophy to find God are represented by the three great philosophical nations - Greece, India, and China. These three nations have taken men and women about as far as...
Bible Verses: 1 John 4:7-21Luke 18:11Matthew 5:20Romans 5:1-8Ephesians 2:4-5John 3:162 Timothy 3:5
Read MoreIt is the present heaven of the saints, to know and believe the love that God hath to them. None can reveal it to us, or shed it abroad in our hearts, but the Holy Ghost. He can direct our hearts into the love of God, and into the patience of Jesus Christ. He is in office to show the saints the things of God, and enable them to believe and enjoy them.
Let us, beloved, daily pray that we may know and enjoy the love that God hath to us; it will be an antidote to all our miseries, a...
Bible Verses: 1 John 4:16
Read MoreThere is no light in the planet but that which proceedeth from the sun; and there is no true love to Jesus in the heart but that which cometh from the Lord Jesus himself. From this overflowing fountain of the infinite love of God, all our love to God must spring. This must ever be a great and certain truth, that we love him for no other reason than because he first loved us. Our love to him is the fair offspring of his love to us. Cold admiration, when studying the works of God, anyone may...
Bible Verses: 1 John 4:19
Read MoreHere is one of those New Testament truths that shocks us by its sheer audacity. We would not dare to utter the words if we did not see them in the Bible. But they are gloriously true, and we can revel and rejoice in them.
In what sense are we like Christ in this world? Our minds almost automatically think first of the ways we are not like Him. We do not share with Him the attributes of deity, such as omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence. We are full of sin and failure whereas He...
Bible Verses: 1 John 4:17John 17:23
Read MoreLet us define. But who can define? For the interpretation of this word, love is the interpretation of God. It is easy to say that love is a delight in the happiness of the loved. But the mind will not rest satisfied with this definition; it again and again replies, that the meaning includes more. Love cannot be defined, for it is itself a definition, the definition of God; but it may be described in its operations and effects.
The love that God has towards you, passes knowledge. The...
Bible Verses: 1 John 4:16
Read MoreThis scribe admired the way Jesus had answered the questions that were put to Him by His enemies. Jesus always answered well. He never got confused in His replies, as often human teachers do. He never erred in His answers to men's questions, for He knew all truth. We know only fragments of the great body of truth, and therefore frequently find ourselves...
Bible Verses: Mark 12:28-34Mark 12:38-44Psalms 16:51 John 4:20
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For Reading and Meditation: 1 John 4:17-21;5:1-12
Although the love of God is clearly laid out in the Old Testament, why did humankind have to wait so long to have the message spelled out in such clear terms as John uses: God is love? People could not see this sufficiently clearly until they had looked into the face of Jesus. In the life of Jesus is the...