Legalism lacks the supreme sense of worship. It obeys but it does not adore.
HT: @smallgroupshome
Tag Archives: Love
Loving God Means Loving People
Loving God and loving people are not mutually exclusive. We are never forced to choose between the two. Calloused indifference toward the people of God is unmistakable evidence of disregard for God Himself. To love them is to love him.
original emphasis, Sam Storms, The Hope of Glory (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2007), 31.
Don’t Set Your Expectations of Others Too High
God does not love some ideal person, but rather human beings just as we are, not some ideal world, but rather the real world.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945)
HT: @danielhill1336
Wanting God for His Blessings and Not Himself
If men’s affection to God is founded first on His profitableness to them, their affection begins at the wrong end; they regard God only for the utmost limit of the stream of divine good, where it touches them and reaches their interest, and have no respect to that infinite glory of God’s nature which is the original good, and the true foundation of all good, the first foundation of all true love.
The Church Is a Spiritual Workshop
The local church, therefore, may be viewed as a spiritual workshop for the development of agape love. Thus the stresses and strains of a spiritual fellowship offer the ideal situation for the testing and maturing [of love]…. The local congregation is one of the very best laboratories in which individual believers may discover their real spiritual emptiness and begin to grow in agape love.
Spread a Little Sunshine Every Day
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness or abilities that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
We Become Like What We Love
Here Is Love
This is one of my personal favorite hymns as well as one of my church’s favorites.
Sweet and Humble Exultation
There are no words to express that kind of sweetness or humble exultation that arises from the sensible presence of God to the soul that is filled with divine love.
Who Can Add to Christmas?
Who can add to Christmas? The perfect motive is that God so loved the world. The perfect gift is that He gave His only Son. The only requirement is to believe in Him. The reward of faith is that you shall have everlasting life.
HT: Jeremy Wallace
Life Is Worship 