Scripture tells us about this kind of love that we need new eyes to see. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. … We love because he first loved us. (1 John. 4:10,19) God loved us first. Before […]
James Taylor’s version of “Handy Man” hit number one in 1977. He recorded it as a slower version, more of a ballad-style of the original Jones/Blackwell hit. James sings he “can fix broken hearts, I know that I truly can” which the lulling vocals seem to affirm he could do. In reality, however, full restoration […]
Our Eternal God IS Love and is therefore an infinite source out of Whom this love flows. This love is always new. He can do (and be!) no other than Love. It is His nature. Just as the water of a wild and flowing river is never a recycled repeat of the same water again […]
Being finite people with a limited lifespan, we have a maturation point before ultimate decline by aging. This is why it’s hard to wrap our minds around something that is infinite and always new. God is Love. He doesn’t have to feel love in order to know it. He doesn’t have to invent it or […]
This year’s Lent Devotional Series “Seeing His Love with New Eyes” resumes tomorrow after today’s Sabbath rest to meditate and worship. Today, reflect on confidence in the forgiveness, grace, and mercy of our God.
“Seeing His Love with New Eyes” requires seeing that, with God, it is possible that sin gets punished completely even while God remains pure and perfect love. God did this through Jesus Christ. We’ve looked at this before, but we need a constant reminder that Scripture says, “There is no fear in love. But perfect […]
There was a time when mankind was neither afraid nor ashamed. It’s hard to imagine what that world must have been like, but that’s the very world God created and into which God placed the first man and woman. Something changed in the very moment Adam and Eve chose to sin. And sin brings fear. […]
In a recent Super Bowl ad, the “Jesus Gets Us” movement portrayed Jesus’ followers washing the feet of people sometimes derided by Evangelical Christians as sinners. Granted, there are limitations in a 60-second ad and a broad brush is being used to paint Christian thought, but there is great benefit in our discussing what it […]
Once Adam and Eve sinned, there was no going back to the relationship they had before sinning against God. No longer would they see the world only in selfless terms. Selfishness now dominates this world, but God is still selflessly loving His creation. . Sin’s appeal to the selfish human nature post-fall has blinded us. […]
When Adam and Eve were confronted by the serpent, the issue of oneself vs. God presented itself for the first time. Before that time, there was no conflict between God and man. God was selfless and so were Adam and Eve living in God’s selfless love. Initially, Adam and Eve had only known selfless living, […]
