The Love of Family – God Meets Our Needs – Purity 1773
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Good morning,
Today’s photo of a utility pole and a stand of trees displaying the various shades of autumn colors comes to us from yours truly as I captured this simple scene of beauty during a leisurely early evening walk just off of “Freedom Road” last night.
Well, It’s the first weekend of Autumn and I share today’s photo, displaying the fact that the times they are a changing, to encourage all of us to get out there this weekend to enjoy the magic of God’s creation and to draw close to the ones we love.
Me? I’ll be revisiting the site of where my love, TammyLyn, and I became man and wife nearly four years ago, the Rexford Firehouse, for an extended family reunion as my wife’s paternal grandmother’s side of the family are getting together to celebrate their family’s past, present, and future. While I will be a veritable stranger to many of the people I meet their today, because of my marriage to TammyLyn, we are family, and I will do my best to learn about them, celebrate the love they share, and tell as many as I can about how the Lord made me a part of their family.
It’s the old story of boy meets God, launches a freedom ministry and starts a Christian podcast, and meets girl, who he would never meet otherwise, and they get married! Praise the Lord! It is through Christ alone that I met and married TammyLyn and now have family members I have never met before, but the love I have through my marriage and family are only the tip of the iceberg of the love I have received since putting my faith in Jesus. God meets our earthly needs for love in marriage, family, and friends, but our existential need for love – the need for love that our human existence requires- can only be satisfied by God.
Speaking of our needs and how God fulfills them, the In Touch with Dr. Charles Stanely from yesterday addresses that topic, so I am sharing in on the blog today to encourage us all to draw close to God to get our deepest needs met. Dr. Charles Stanley writes:
“God Meets Our Needs
Praise God that our need for love, security, and companionship is satisfied in a relationship with Him.
Philippians 4:19-20
Our heavenly Father has promised to provide everything we need. Let’s consider some of the good gifts that are ours in Christ.
One universal human need is love. Out of His great concern for our well-being, the heavenly Father sent Jesus to die on the cross for our sins. Through faith in the Savior, we are adopted as God’s beloved children. In that way, we experience His rich affection for us (John 3:16), and as a result of our relationship with Him, we know a love like no other.
In fact, by means of salvation, our Father also provided for two other basic needs—companionship and security. When we accept God’s offer of forgiveness, the Holy Spirit comes to live within us, fulfilling the divine promise never to leave or forsake us (Hebrews 13:5). Furthermore, Christ Himself promised that no one would ever snatch us out of His hand (John 10:28). In other words, we can rest in the knowledge that we are God’s children forever. That is true security, utterly unlike anything the world can offer.
Praise God that our deep need for love, security, and companionship can be satisfied by an intimate, eternal relationship with the Lord. Have you trusted Christ so you could be blessed in this way?” – Charles Stanley
Amen. Through faith in Jesus, we receive God’s love for us. We are not just forgiven of our sins; we are made God’s children when we are redeemed by Christ. Our response to such love should surpass gratitude to a deep heartfelt devotion and appreciation for what the Lord has done and for who He is.
Just as we love the people in our lives for the things they do and the people they are, we are to love God in the same way. Just as our loved ones don’t stop being the people we love, nor stop doing the things we love them for, the Lord doesn’t stop being who He is, and He doesn’t stop doing the things we love Him for.
As we keep on loving our loved ones – and grow deeper in our love for them as time goes by, let us rejoice and grow in the love we have for God.
Reflect on who God is and what He has done, and what He continues to do and love Him.
Enjoy His companionship that never ends and rest in the security of His eternity, God’s love endure forever so make sure you set aside some time throughout your day to remember the One who loves you and to enjoy all the ways He expresses it.
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For those who want more evidence for Christianity than my simple encouragements provide, I offer apologist, Frank Turek’s website, https://crossexamined.org/.
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Today’s Bible verse comes to us from “The Quick Scripture Reference for Counseling” By John G. Kruis.
(While Bible verses on various topics of Counseling can be found with a quick Google search, we encourage you to purchase this resource to support the late author’s work. (The Quick Scripture Reference for Counseling By John G. Kruis on Amazon )
This morning’s meditation verses come from the section on Peacemakers – Peacekeepers.
Galatians 5:13–15 (ESV) For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.
Today’s verses fall under the thirteenth point of our counseling reference guide resource section on Peacemakers – Peacekeepers.
13. Use your God-given freedom to serve one another and avoid bitter strife.
Today’s Bible verses encourage us to exercise our freedom in Christ to choose to take the high road and to love our neighbors as ourselves.
This passage of scripture specifically warns us to not to bite and devour one another, figuratively, as the next few verses, 19-21, describe all the works of the flesh and the ways we can do damage to our relationships with things as seemingly benign as jealousy and envy to the more wickedly obvious sins of adultery and murder – and all the sins in-between, that can tear our relationships apart.
Our free will gives us the choice of how we are to live but the Lord directs us to forsake the dark delights of this world for the way of peace and harmony that comes without shame or guilt. If we tame the selfish desires of our own hearts and don’t sin against our neighbors through selfish conceit, vanity, anger, or lust, we will be on the right track to establish, as much as it depends on us of course, peace with our fellow man.
So, use your freedom to choose God’s righteous ways for living and to share the love of Jesus that can bring the peace that goes beyond all understanding wherever you go.
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Today we continue sharing from “Day by Day Along the Way” By Jay E. Adams.
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Day 272
David … foresaw and spoke about Christ’s resurrection … – Acts 2:31
David was a prophet and predicted that God would not leave Christ’s soul in Hades (the unseen world; see Psalm 16:10). The unseen world was the place of departed spirits. It was composed of Paradise (to which Jesus and the believing thief on the cross went at their deaths) and Gehenna (the place of punishment, named after the dump outside of Jerusalem where worms and fires consumed the garbage). Jesus, in referring to the place of eternal punishment, named it Gehenna because of these facts, but said that there, in contrast, the worms don’t die and the fires are not extinguished. Hell is like this filthy place, but many times worse! Jesus did not suffer after the cross as some have wrongly taught. He was in the place where Lazarus went. The rich man, outside of whose estate Lazarus sat and begged, was in Gehenna. Souls do not sleep; only dead bodies do. Disembodied spirits are conscious after death.[1]
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[1] Jay E. Adams, Day by Day along the Way (Cordova, TN: Institute for Nouthetic Studies, 2020), 280.
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