“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. ”
John 3:16 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.3.16.NASB1995
“. . . God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. ”
Romans 5:8 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/rom.5.8.NASB1995
“Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. ”
1 John 4:11 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/1jn.4.11.NASB1995
“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. ”
John 13:34 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.13.34.NASB1995
🌹“The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love. ”
1 John 4:8 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/1jn.4.8.NASB1995
Love all people because God loves you.
Continually Seeking Him,
Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org
Tag Archive | Love
Reconciliation Ambassadors
“For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, ”
Titus 2:11 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/tit.2.11.NASB1995
“For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. ”
Romans 5:6 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/rom.5.6.NASB1995
“who gave Himself for us to redeem us from every lawless deed, and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.”
Titus 2:14 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/tit.2.14.NASB1995
“For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit; ”
1 Peter 3:18 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/1pe.3.18.NASB1995
“But by His doing you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption, ”
1 Corinthians 1:30 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/1co.1.30.NASB1995
“Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation, namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation.”
2 Corinthians 5:18-19 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/2co.5.18-19.NASB1995
“Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making an appeal through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. ”
2 Corinthians 5:20 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/2co.5.20.NASB1995
🌹God’s love and kindness towards us was fully demonstrated at the cross. God loved us so much…ALL mankind, His creation. How are we loving ALL mankind?
Continually Seeking Him,
Love And Obedience
You know that the Lord your God is the only true God. So love him and obey his commands, and he will faithfully keep his agreement with you and your descendants for a thousand generations.
Deuteronomy 7:9 CEV
https://bible.com/bible/392/deu.7.9.CEV
🌹“If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.
John 14:15 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.14.15.NASB1995
Continually Seeking Him,
Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org
Servant’s Heart
but whoever keeps His word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him: the one who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk in the same manner as He walked.
1 John 2:5-6 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/1jn.2.5-6.NASB1995
Jesus speaking to His disciples:
For I gave you an example that you also should do as I did to you.
John 13:15 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.13.15.NASB1995
So when He (Jesus) had washed their feet, and taken His garments and reclined at the table again, He said to them, “Do you know what I have done to you? You call Me Teacher and Lord; and you are right, for so I am. If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I gave you an example that you also should do as I did to you. Truly, truly, I say to you, a slave is not greater than his master, nor is one who is sent greater than the one who sent him. If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.
John 13:12-17 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.13.12-17.NASB1995
🌹just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”
Matthew 20:28 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/mat.20.28.NASB1995
Continually Seeking Him,
Loving Jesus
Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him.
John 14:23 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.14.23.NASB1995
Do we love Jesus?
How do we keep God’s word if we don’t know God’s Word?
When does the Father and Jesus abide in us?
Continually Seeking Him,
🌹Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org
God IN You?
We have come to know and have believed the love which God has (in) for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
1 John 4:16 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/1jn.4.16.NASB1995
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
1 John 4:7 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/1jn.4.7.NASB1995
🙏“We have believed and have come to know that You are the Holy One of God.”
John 6:68 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jn.6.68.NASB1995
No one has seen God at any time; if we love one another, God abides in us, and His love is perfected in us. By this we know that we abide in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.
1 John 4:12-15 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/1jn.4.12-15.NASB1995
🌹Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.
1 John 4:15 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/1jn.4.15.NASB1995
Continually Seeking Him,
How Can We Know God?
Seek Him!
Seek the Lord while He may be found; Call upon Him while He is near. Isaiah 55:6¹
Set your heart and your soul to seek the Lord your God. 1 Chronicles 22:19²
you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul. Deuteronomy 4:29³
Seek the Lord and His strength; Seek His face continually. Psalms 105:4⁴
Love Him!!
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. Deuteronomy 6:5⁵
Serve Him!!!
know God and serve Him with a whole heart and a willing mind; for the Lord searches all hearts, and understands every intent of the thoughts. If you seek Him, He will let you find Him; . . . 1 Chronicles 28:9⁶
Praise Him!!!!
Oh give thanks to the Lord, call upon His name; Make known His deeds among the peoples. Sing to Him, sing praises to Him; Speak of all His wonders. Glory in His holy name; Let the heart of those who seek the Lord be glad. Psalms 105:1-3⁷
🌹For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.
Jeremiah 29:11-14 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jer.29.11-13.NASB1995
Continually Seeking Him,
Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org
¹https://bible.com/bible/100/isa.55.6.NASB1995
²https://bible.com/bible/100/1ch.22.19.NASB1995
³https://bible.com/bible/100/deu.4.29.NASB1995
⁴https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.105.4.NASB1995
⁵https://bible.com/bible/100/deu.6.5.NASB1995
⁶https://bible.com/bible/100/1ch.28.9.NASB1995
⁷https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.105.1-3.NASB1995
Do You Know God?
We make time to spend with family. We make time to spend with friends. We make time to do our favorite things.
All of these can be beneficial, but time with God is the most beneficial to our lives and eternity. Time with the Lord God is for getting to know Him and for opening up ourselves to “be known” by Him.
To know someone, really know someone, takes effort and time spent with them.
🌹Do you know God or just “of” Him?
Thus says the Lord, “Let not a wise man boast of his wisdom, and let not the mighty man boast of his might, let not a rich man boast of his riches; but let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the Lord who exercises lovingkindness, justice and righteousness on earth; for I delight in these things,” declares the Lord.
Jeremiah 9:23-24 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jer.9.23-24.NASB1995
More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ,
Philippians 3:8 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/php.3.8.NASB1995
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God’s Great Love
God’s Great Love
But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
Ephesians 2:4-7 NASB1995
🌹Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.
Romans 12:1 NASB1995
Continually Seeking Him,
Unconditional Childlike Faith
Truly I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will not enter it at all.”
Luke 18:17 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/luk.18.17.NASB1995
This verse got me thinking. What does childlike faith look like?
I looked at attributes of a child; attributes of a child toward their caregiver. . .
They are innocent, dependent on and trusting those who care for them. They demonstrate unconditional love. They are curious to learn and explore. They often adapt well to new circumstances because they do not have a care in the world. They feel secure.
I’m sure you can come up with some yourself.
If God is our cargiver and we are His children, do we demonstrate these attributes as we walk with Him?
He (God) has told you, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of you But to do justice, to love kindness, And to walk humbly with your God?
Micah 6:8 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/mic.6.8.NASB1995
and said, “Truly I say to you, unless you are converted and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 18:3 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/mat.18.3.NASB1995
Continually Seeking Him,
🌹Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org
