30 Knowledge and love…
We know that we all possess knowledge. But knowledge puffs up while love builds up. Those who think they know something do not yet know as they ought to know. But whoever loves God...
Loved Lived Loud
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your souls and with all
your mind. This is the first and the greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbour as yourself. All the law and the prophets hang on these two commandments.
Matthew 22: 37-40
When the disciples were choosing a new disciple to replace Judas Iscariot they cast lots – a worldly practice used to determine God’s will. In a similar vein, I used a Facebook game to discover the word God had for me for this next edition of Pausing with God and “love” came up.
So “love” is the theme for this series. Together we’ll explore God’s love for us and how his love can uphold, strengthen, comfort, embolden, and give us the courage to live his will each day. I began to write this series of Pausing with God a few months after the death of my dad, I was confused and felt in need of love in abundant amounts having lost one of the people I loved the most.
This word love is about how I relate to my God, myself, and my neighbour. As we explore each occurrence of love in The Bible, journey with me. Discover how God’s infinite and unconditional love for us will in turn grow love in our hearts and enable us to love in abundance. With each post there will be prayers to pray and actions for you to consider and take into your day.
May your unfailing love be with us, Lord, even as we put our hope in you
Psalm 33:22
Enjoy…
36. Compelling…
For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced, that one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but...
35. Our foundation…
Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong. Do everything in love. 1 Corinthians 16:13-14 What the world needs now is love, sweet love. It’s the only thing that...
34. Never fails…
Love never fails. But where there are prophesies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away…. And now these three remain: faith, hope...
33. Love always…
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 1 Corinthians 13:6-7 If love were a person what would it look like? How...
32. Love is…
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonour others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps...
31. Engine room…
If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophesy and...
29. Sincere…
Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. Be devoted to one another in love. Romans 12:9-10 Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that...
28. Inseparable…
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?… No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through...
27. Poured out…
Such hope never disappoints or deludes or shames us, for God’s love has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. Romans 5:5 You know that...