More thoughts culled from my random file. About divine love, relationship with God and new life in Christ. Some have come to me in moments of quiet reflection, some in interaction with others. Many have been tweets and Facebook updates. Some have been posters. Offered as “jump starts” for your faith.
- The sacraments (e.g., baptism and communion) are not merely outward signs of an inward faith but the outward signs of an inward grace. Though our faith in Christ may often be weak, the grace of God towards us is always strong.
- Discipleship is learning to live in the fellowship of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
- Eschatology is not about the end of the world but about the end of the age. It is about the new creation, which has already begun for us in Jesus the Messiah.
- A new twist on an old saying: Pray as if everything depends upon God. Work as if everything depends upon God.
- Fear is at the root of all kinds of issues, and it is a terrible bondage. It is an “orphan” spirit, desperately looking for, and never finding, a father. However, God has not given us the spirit of fear that leads us into bondage again but the Spirit of Adoption by which we cry out, “Abba, Father” (Romans 8:15). And when God’s love is perfected in us, it casts out fear. When we fear, it is because we are not trusting in the love of God.
- We were conceived in the divine love and fellowship of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
- At the cross, God did not pour out his wrath on Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ poured out the wrath of God on sin, death and the devil.
- In King Jesus the Messiah, all are made new. Come to him. Trust him. Follow him.
- We are created for greatness, though it often comes in ways that seem small and insignificant — but that is because we have gotten things upside down.
- If God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, how in the world could anyone ever be insignificant?
- Jesus washed the feet of his disciples. Do thou likewise. Therein lies greatness.
- All that belongs to the Father belongs also to the Son. The Spirit reveals them to us — and we are caught up into divine fellowship.
- God is Love. Love pours himself out for others. And so Love fulfills all.
- God is love. In God, there is one who loves, one who is loved, and one who is the love between them. Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
- There is not a soul in this world who does not long for the glory and presence of the Lord. Many just do not realize it yet.
- God is love, and a consuming fire. He burns away everything that cannot be loved.
- The love of God never gives up on us, never ceases to work for our good. Even in hell, God is love.
- The Christian life is infinitely impossible to live on our own — but intimately available to all in Christ who is our life.
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