Continuing Michael’s message: Humility is the prerequisite for love. We must come to God with a broken and a contrite spirit, so that He can reconcile us back to Him. Humility is the key to receiving the love of God. We as children of God must be humbled. Only then can we love our enemies, bless them that persecute us, and pray for them that despitefully use us, knowing that our reward is not of this world, but great is our reward in heaven – Matthew 5:44.
1 John 4:7-11 “Beloved,
let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is
born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not, knoweth not God; for God
is love. In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God
sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through
him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent
his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us,
we ought also to love one another.”
In the immortal words of the
poem "The Love of God" penned in the year of our Lord 1050 by Meir Ben Isaac Nehorai:
“Could we with ink the oceans fill, and were the skies of parchment made,
Were every stalk on earth a quill, and every man a scribe by trade,
To write the Love of God above, would drain the oceans dry,
Nor could the scroll contain the whole, though stretched from sky to sky.”
“Could we with ink the oceans fill, and were the skies of parchment made,
Were every stalk on earth a quill, and every man a scribe by trade,
To write the Love of God above, would drain the oceans dry,
Nor could the scroll contain the whole, though stretched from sky to sky.”
Sproul writes that without
the sovereign love and grace of God reaching out to a lost and rebellious
world, not a single person would be able to love — much less the Creator
Himself. Because of our creaturely limitations, we are tempted to think of love
only in terms of time and space. Almost by default, we frame God’s love in the
context of creation. Yet we forget that love was not created. God’s unfailing love for
us is an objective fact affirmed over and over in the Scriptures. It is true
whether we believe it or not. Our doubts do not destroy God’s love, nor does
our faith create it. It originates in the very nature of God, who is love, and
it flows to us through our union with His beloved Son.
Beloved of God, May God richly bless you,
Your brother in Christ,
Michael
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