Loving God's People
One thing God has shown me over and over is that when we accept Christ as our Lord and Savior, we become His child. He loves us. He teaches us. He disciplines us. And He has also shown me that everyone who accepts Christ is also His child, whom He loves much and whom he finds much pleasure.
Everyone is at different “levels” (lack of a better word) of the knowledge of God. My husband knows more than I do. His friend may know more than Him. BUT, we are all God’s children and with that, we help each other grow. Our relationships with God are different as well. God made each of us individually and unique. We need to learn to respect each other’s uniqueness because God made us, all of us.
1 John 4:20 If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.
Jeremiah 9:23 This is what the LORD says: "Let not the wise man boast of his wisdom or the strong man boast of his strength or the rich man boast of his riches, 24 but let him who boasts boast about this: that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight," declares the LORD.
Knowing that all you have including the knowledge of Him came from Him. As well as Love, Peace, Repentance and you coming to Christ was because of Him.
John 6:44 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
Romans 2:1You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge the other, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things. 2Now we know that God's judgment against those who do such things is based on truth. 3So when you, a mere man, pass judgment on them and yet do the same things, do you think you will escape God's judgment? 4Or do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, tolerance and patience, not realizing that God's kindness leads you toward repentance?
Matthew 10:38 and anyone who does not take up his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.
Let’s look up the word follow in the dictionary. 1) To engage in as a calling or a way of life. 2) To be in act or accordance with. 3) To accept as authority.
In the book titled, “I Would Follow Jesus”, he says: You know a follower because they act and react like the One they are following. A true follower is in the process of a radical reformation because of the influence of the leader in their lives. Are our lives reflecting the One we follow? Are our actions in accordance with His? Are pursuing relationships with other believers and non believers as Jesus did?
Do we ever say, if they lived the way they should, they wouldn’t be going through this right now? I have heard that said many times. Did Paul live right? We could say the same things we say about others…well, if he lived right, he wouldn’t have been tortured like that. Or Job? 1There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil. Job went through much pain and Job was “perfect” and “upright”. What about Jeremiah? We could look at many people in the Bible that God has given us the privilege of reading and see that hardships do not mean we are not living right and a life of no trials doesn’t mean that someone is. We are to live the life God gives us each day. And when hardships come may we have the love of our brothers and sisters in Christ to help us carry the burden.
Dear Father, my prayer is that we see others as you see them. Lord, we ask for Your Love and Mercy to come through us. Lord we want to be like You. Help us Lord. Speak to us on what we need to hear. Lord, guard our tongues. Help us keep all thoughts captive. We want to be your followers. We want to be what you made us to be. Thank you for Your love…for it endures forever. In Your Name we pray. Amen.
Tammy
Everyone is at different “levels” (lack of a better word) of the knowledge of God. My husband knows more than I do. His friend may know more than Him. BUT, we are all God’s children and with that, we help each other grow. Our relationships with God are different as well. God made each of us individually and unique. We need to learn to respect each other’s uniqueness because God made us, all of us.
1 John 4:20 If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.
Jeremiah 9:23 This is what the LORD says: "Let not the wise man boast of his wisdom or the strong man boast of his strength or the rich man boast of his riches, 24 but let him who boasts boast about this: that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight," declares the LORD.
Knowing that all you have including the knowledge of Him came from Him. As well as Love, Peace, Repentance and you coming to Christ was because of Him.
John 6:44 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
Romans 2:1You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge the other, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things. 2Now we know that God's judgment against those who do such things is based on truth. 3So when you, a mere man, pass judgment on them and yet do the same things, do you think you will escape God's judgment? 4Or do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, tolerance and patience, not realizing that God's kindness leads you toward repentance?
Matthew 10:38 and anyone who does not take up his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.
Let’s look up the word follow in the dictionary. 1) To engage in as a calling or a way of life. 2) To be in act or accordance with. 3) To accept as authority.
In the book titled, “I Would Follow Jesus”, he says: You know a follower because they act and react like the One they are following. A true follower is in the process of a radical reformation because of the influence of the leader in their lives. Are our lives reflecting the One we follow? Are our actions in accordance with His? Are pursuing relationships with other believers and non believers as Jesus did?
Do we ever say, if they lived the way they should, they wouldn’t be going through this right now? I have heard that said many times. Did Paul live right? We could say the same things we say about others…well, if he lived right, he wouldn’t have been tortured like that. Or Job? 1There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil. Job went through much pain and Job was “perfect” and “upright”. What about Jeremiah? We could look at many people in the Bible that God has given us the privilege of reading and see that hardships do not mean we are not living right and a life of no trials doesn’t mean that someone is. We are to live the life God gives us each day. And when hardships come may we have the love of our brothers and sisters in Christ to help us carry the burden.
Dear Father, my prayer is that we see others as you see them. Lord, we ask for Your Love and Mercy to come through us. Lord we want to be like You. Help us Lord. Speak to us on what we need to hear. Lord, guard our tongues. Help us keep all thoughts captive. We want to be your followers. We want to be what you made us to be. Thank you for Your love…for it endures forever. In Your Name we pray. Amen.
Tammy
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