#1 John 4:8

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1 John 4:8 (NLT) - But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

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The universe is held together by an eternal community of Love... for us to be One as God is One is for us to be a community of other-centered life-giving Love... We do this by knowing (incompletely) and being known (completely) by this One God; in doing that we participate in his Love and become a community of Love.

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Music For the Soul

by Andrew Murray

The True Object of Love

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. - 1 John 4:8

We are made with hearts that need to rest upon an absolute love; we are made with understandings that need to grasp a pure, a perfect, and, as I believe, paradoxical though it may sound, a personal Truth. We are made with wills that crave for an absolute authoritative command, and we are made with a moral nature that needs a perfect holiness. And we need all that love, truth, authority, purity to be gathered into one; for the misery of the world is that when we set out to look for treasures, we have to go into many lands and to many merchants to buy many goodly pearls. But we need One of great price, in which all our wealth may be invested. We need that One to be an undying and perpetual possession. There is One to whom our love can ever cleave, and fear none of the sorrows or imperfections that make earthward-turned love a rose with many a thorn, One for whom it is a pure gain to lose ourselves, One who is plainly the only worthy recipient of the whole love and self-surrender of the heart. And that One is God, revealed and brought near to us in Jesus Christ. In that great Saviour we have a love at once divine and human; we have the great transcendent instance of love leading to sacrifice. On that love and sacrifice for us Christ builds His claim on us for our hearts, and our all. Life alone can communicate life; it is only light that can diffuse light; it is only love that can kindle love; it is only sacrifice that can inspire sacrifice. And so He comes to us, and asks that we should just love Him back again as He has loved us. He first gives Himself utterly unto us, and then asks us to give ourselves wholly to Him. He first yields up His own life, and then He says, " He that loseth his life for My sake shall find it." The object, the true object, for all this depth of love which lies slumbering in our hearts, is God in Christ, the Christ that died for us.

God’s love is Christ’s love; Christ’s love is God’s love. And this is the lesson that we gather - that that infinite and Divine loving-kindness does not turn away from thee, my brother and my friend, because thou art a sinner, but remains hovering about thee, with wooing invitations and with gentle touches, if it may draw thee to repentance, and open a fountain of answering affection in thy seared and dry heart. The love of God is deeper than all our sins. " For His great love wherewith He loved us, when we were dead in sins. He quickened us." Sin is but the cloud behind which the everlasting Sun lies in all its power and warmth, unaffected by the cloud; and the light will yet strike, the light of His love will yet pierce through, with its merciful shafts bringing healing in their beams, and dispersing all the pitchy darkness of man’s transgression. And as the mists gather themselves up and roll away, dissipated by the heat of that sun in the upper sky, and reveal the fair earth below, so the love of Christ shines in, melting the mist and dissipating the fog, thinning it off in its thickest places, and at last piercing its way through it, down to the heart of the man that has been lying beneath the oppression of this thick darkness, and who thought that the fog was the sky, and that there was no sun there above.

[tiand]

God Is Love (1 John 4:8)

1 John 4:8 8. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

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Known

Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 1 John 4:8 God sees you when you’re ill. When you’re a lump buried under blankets on the couch, hacking loudly. God sees you when you’re healthy. At the top of your game, running this way and that at full speed. God sees you when you’re sad. He sits with you, drying your tears with His hand on your shoulder. God sees you when…

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The Morning Devotional: WCF 2.1 (Part Two)

The Morning Devotional for January 20, 2023 The Westminster Confession of Faith 2.1 (Part Two) I. There is but one onlya living and true God,b who is infinite in being and perfection,c a most pure spirit,d invisible,e without body, parts,f or passions,g immutable,h immense,i eternal,jincomprehensible,k almighty,l most wise,m most holy,n most free,o most absolute,p working all things according to…

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Chosen by God

John 1:12 (NLT). “But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God. ”

Galatians 4:7 (NIV). “So you are no longer a slave, but God’s child; and since you are his child, God has made you also an heir.”

1 John 3:1a (NIV). “See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God!”

Matthew 5:9 (ESV). “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.

Romans 8:16 (NASB). “The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God.”

Galatians 3:26 (NLT). “For you are all children of God through faith in Christ Jesus.”

John 15:16 (NIV). “You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.”

Jeremiah 1:5 (NET). “Before I formed you in your mother’s womb I chose you.Before you were born I set you apart.I appointed you to be a prophet to the nations.”

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s1 shutdown doodles (with some agent 32 sprinkled in because it’s 4/8 lmao)

shoutout to everyone who remembers when people shipped kaori and john and/or called them “orange and blue” all the time you guys are real ones

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Albums By Color: Pretty in Pink 🩷

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Me: I hate Greco-Roman influence on Christian theology and philosophy.

Also Me: Anyway so Plato's Euthyphro dilemma is actually not a problem for Christians because of John the Platonist Theologian and Plato's Theory of Forms, in this essay marrying Abrahamic and Platonic philosophy I will-

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Do you think, perhaps, that there are too many Saw movies at this point. Do you think the well has run dry

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~ Scriptures about forgiveness ~

Matthew 6:15 "But if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses."

Ephesians 4:32 "Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you."

Colossians 3:13 "Bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive."

Daniel 9:9 "To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him."

Romans 3:23 "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God."

Proverbs 10:12 "Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses."

Micah 7:18 "Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in steadfast love."

Mark 11:25 "And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses."

Luke 17:3-4 "Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him."

Luke 6:37 "Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:"

Matthew 6:14 "For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:"

1 John 1:9 "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."

Isaiah 1:8 "Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool."

James 5:16 "Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much."

[tiand]

God Is Love (1 John 4:8)

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Warsaw Grit

Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 1 John 4:8 Recently finished a book one of my daughters gave me for Christmas. Love WW2 historical fiction as it draws me into a time where heroes multiply. Reading about Dr. Korczak, a teacher who ran his orphanage full of parentless children, was touching to say the least. While in the ghetto, he began working with another…