Love One Another
Most Christians know that Jesus wants us loving one another. Nevertheless, loving other humans proves more difficult than loving God. So the Lord wisely included several Love One Another scriptures in the New Testament. As we read the forty-three one another scriptures listed below, His Word will empower us with the ability to choose love for each other. When you don’t feel love, choose to love. Christian love produces feelings of love, but Christian love never depends only upon feelings. “For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen,” 1 John 4:20.
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Deuteronomy 32:46-47 impressed me when I first read it as a high school senior. Moses was speaking to the Israelis, but what he said to them applies to us in the 21st century. “Take to heart all the words I have solemnly declared to you this day…. They are not just idle words for you; they are your life.” So, we are to take to heart the words of Scripture, fill our minds with Scripture and train ourselves to meditate on God’s Word. …
Ezekiel was an exiled Jewish prophet who lived in Babylon (Iraq) about 600 years before Jesus. He loved the Lord and faithfully spoke the Word God gave him to share with the people of his day. Many of his prophecies deal with the days in which we live and the days that are yet to come on the earth. Be blessed by these brief quotations from Ezekiel’s book. …
God’s people guessed they knew they enemy’s thoughts. They assumed the enemy regarded them as mere helpless grasshoppers. They substituted a guess for knowledge. They accepted their guess as accurate information. Consequently, guesses led them completely astray from reality. …
Every November Americans celebrate Thanksgiving Day. Well, Scripture talks a lot about thanksgiving, but in a different way. Scripture tells us to give thanks in everything not just the pleasant, beneficial and joy-inspiring. The apostle Paul wrote, “Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you,” 1 Thessalonians 5:18. …
The writer of the New Testament book of Jude points out that every believer is three things. …
Humans believe that activity proves personal worth. The more we do, the more significant we become. Life is valuable when life is very, very busy. If we do nothing, we aren’t important. These beliefs spring from a desire to establish our own worth through self effort. We think that busyness shows our worthwhileness. …
Humans hold just about every conceivable type of expectation in their hearts. They dream, aspire, imagine and project future goals and desires. However, not all expectations will be fulfilled – not even for Christians! Let me suggest three steps you can take when expectations go unfulfilled. …