Like the author of today’s study, I stumble often in loving others, especially those that I perceive to be difficult or far different than me. My pet pieces or past run ins with some seem to explode in me when I know I should live because He first loves me. However, I can see progress within because what used to irritate me, no longer is comes to the front of my emotional response. What I formerly thought were big issues are not that important anymore. My security and stability do not rest on the superficial approval ratings of what others think are important, or what I used to think were priorities. God loves me deeply and I want to participate in Hos loving others.
“Now, when we say those words, we need to check: Do I really believe that? We don’t talk much about such things in our churches. It makes a lot of people uneasy. But you cannot rest in the purposes of God for your life unless you understand who you are. How you think about who you are enables you to deal with life in a way that is emotionally and spiritually mature. The Kingdom of God allows you to step into a future that involves your continuing life with God and with others forever.” - Jim Wilder, Renovated
“God wants His children to live in an atmosphere of love and confidence, not fear and torment. We need not fear life or death, for we are being perfected in the love of God. “Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? … But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. ” - Excerpt, Be Real (1 John) by Warren W. Wiersbe
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