Some things

12/10/2011

God is Our Father

If you Love Jesus and obey the Words of Jesus, then that is proof that God is your Father.
If God is your Father, then you are His Daughter or His Son.And more than this- You are really "One with" THE FATHER.

Oneness with The Father and with Jesus, and with all your brethren.
Think of Spiritual Oneness!
God is your FATHER. Always remember this great Truth!

Matthew 5:16 – Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify YOUR FATHER which is in heaven.
Matthew 5:48 – Be ye therefore perfect, even as YOUR FATHER which is in heaven is perfect.
Matthew 6:9 – After this manner therefore pray ye: OUR FATHER which art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy Name.
Matthew 6:14 – For if ye forgive men their trespasses, YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER will also forgive you:
Matthew 10:20 – For it is not ye that speak, but the SPIRIT of YOUR FATHER which speaketh in you.
Matthew 13:43 – Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of THEIR FATHER. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Matthew 18:14 – Even so it is not the will of YOUR FATHER which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.
Matthew 23:9 - And call no man YOUR FATHER upon the earth: for ONE is YOUR FATHER, which is in heaven.
John 8:42 – Jesus said unto them, If God were YOUR FATHER, ye would love Me: For I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of Myself, but He sent Me.
John 10:30 – I and My Father are one.
John 14:7 – If ye had known Me, ye should have known My Father also: and from henceforth ye know him and have seen Him.
John 14:9 – Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? He that hath seen Me hath seen The Father; and how sayest thou then, Show us The Father?
John 14:11 – Believe me that I am in The Father and The Father in Me:
John 14:20 – At that day ye shall know that I am in My Father, and ye in Me, and I in you.
John 17:21 – That they all may be ONE; as Thou, Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be ONE IN US:
John 17:22 – And the glory which Thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be ONE, even as WE ARE ONE:
John 17:23 – I IN Them, and Thou in ME, that They may be made perfect IN ONE;
John 20:17 – Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to My Father: but go to My Brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto My Father, and YOUR FATHER; and to My God, and YOUR GOD.

12/05/2011

God is Love


Love of God

God is Love: How do we Define Love?
"God is Love", but how do we define it? The American Heritage Dictionary defines love as "an intense affection for another person based on familial or personal ties". Often this "intense affection" stems from a sexual attraction for that other person. We love other people, or we say we love other people, when we are attracted to them and when they make us feel good. Notice that a key phrase in the dictionary definition of love is the phrase "based on". This phrase implies that we love conditionally; in other words, we love someone because they fulfill a condition that we require before we can love them. How many times have you heard or said, "I love you because you are cute;" or "I love you because you take good care of me;" or "I love you because you are fun to be with"? 

Our Love

Our love is not only conditional, it is also mercurial. We love based on feelings and emotions that can change from one moment to the next. The divorce rate is extremely high in today's society because husbands and wives supposedly stop loving one another-or they "fall out of love". They may go through a rough patch in their marriage, and they no longer "feel" love for their spouse, so they call it quits. Evidently, their marriage vow of "till death do us part" means they can part at the death of their love for their spouse rather than at their physical death. 

Can anyone really comprehend "unconditional" love? It seems the love that parents have for their children is as close to unconditional love as we can get without the help of God's love in our lives. We continue to love our children through good times and bad, and we don't stop loving them if they don't meet the expectations we may have for them. We make a choice to love our children even when we consider them unlovable; our love doesn't stop when we don't "feel" love for them. This is similar to God's love for us, but as we shall see, God's love transcends the human definition of love to a point that is hard for us to comprehend.

God is Love: How does God Define Love?

The Bible tells us that "God is Love" (1 John 4:8). But how can we even begin to understand that truth? There are many passages in the Bible that give us God's definition of love. The most well known verse is John 3:16, "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." So one way God defines love is in the act of giving. However, what God gave (or should we say, "who" God gave) was not a mere gift-wrapped present; God sacrificed His only Son so that we, who put our faith in His Son, will not spend eternity separated from Him. This is an amazing love, because we are the ones who choose to reject God, yet it's God who mends the separation through His intense personal sacrifice, and all we have to do is accept His gift.

Another great verse about God's love is found in Romans 5:8, "But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." In this verse and in John 3:16, we find no conditions placed on God's love for us. God doesn't say, "as soon as you clean up your act, I'll love you; " nor does He say, "I'll sacrifice my Son if you promise to love Me." In fact, in Romans 5:8, we find just the opposite. God wants us to know that His love is unconditional, so He sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to die for us while we were still unlovable sinners. We didn't have to get clean, and we didn't have to make any promises to God before we could experience His love. His love for us has always existed, and because of that, He did all the giving and sacrificing long before we were even aware that we needed His love.
God is Love: It's Unconditional
God is Love, and His love is very different from human love. God's love is unconditional, and it's not based on feelings or emotions. He doesn't love us because we're lovable or because we make Him feel good; He loves us because He is love. He created us to have a loving relationship with Him, and He sacrificed His own Son (who also willingly died for us) to restore that relationship.