Joshua 4:1-5:12; Isaiah 1:1-31; Luke 21:5-38
In this 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 also ought to love one another. 1 Jn. 4:10-11 NKJV
A proper assessment of my own self will heal many troublesome and irritating things in a local church. If I keep my own unlovableness fresh in my mind, and remember that God loved me in spite of it, then who am I not to love other un-lovables for whom Christ also died? If I struggle with loving another believer, I’ve lost sight of who I was before I experienced God’s unmerited love. I need to confess my sin of pride. —Peter Ramsay
How deep the Father’s love for us, how vast beyond all measure,
That He should give His only Son, to make a wretch His treasure. —Stuart Townend