01- 16- 11 MI DAILY DEVOTION (I John 4:7- 10)
GOD'S UNCONDITIONAL LOVE...
7- “Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. 8- He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. 9- In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. 10- Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.”
“Love is the river of life in this world.” HENRY WARD BEECHER
“If you have it, you don’t need to have anything else. And if you don’t have it, it doesn’t matter what else you have.” SIR JAMES M. BARRIE
“Love is all you need.” PAUL McCARTNEY AND JOHN LENNON
Taken from (The Best of Success A Treasury of Success Ideas (WYNN DAVIS)
In (Romans 5:5-10) I want for you to notice 2 things in verse 6 – a) Man’s conditions and b) The Messiah’s Comfort. MAN’S CONDITIONS- we were without strength and ungodly. “We were without strength…” It means we are unworthy, nothing, weak, like a dried fig tree, and let us picture ourselves buried in a dirt neck deep. We are dead in sins and trespasses Apostle Paul said in (Ephesians 2:1-5). We were “ungodly” It means we were under the power of the darkness of this world. We were servants of sin. We live under the control of lusts, worldly pleasures, under the prince of the power of this world, we were disobedient and the children of wrath.
But the MESSIAH’S COMFORT is that, He died for us. Christ died for the ungodly, for sinners like you and me. It was His love that put Him on His cross. It was His death that made us worthy of His love, His Heaven, His Salvation and His Throne. What a comfort and the privileges that we have in Christ.
What more can we ask from the God who created us and open His Heart and Home in Heaven for us.
(Ephesians 2:4- 6) “But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, 5- Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)- And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:”
