Just when the truth about life sinks in, His truth starts to surface. He takes us by the hand and dares us not to sweep the facts under the rug but to confront them with him at our side.
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God loves you simply because He has chosen to do so. He loves you when you don't feel lovely. He loves you when no one else loves you. Others may abandon you, divorce you, and ignore you, but God will love you always. No matter what!
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes that God's love is unconditional and constant, regardless of one's circumstances or feelings.
Max Lucado's quote speaks to the unwavering and unconditional nature of God's love, which remains steadfast even in times of personal struggle or isolation. It reassures individuals that, unlike human relationships which can be transient and conditional, God's love is eternal and ever-present, providing comfort and hope to those who may feel unworthy or abandoned by others.
In practice
Sharing this quote during a sermon to emphasize God's unwavering love.
Just when the truth about life sinks in, His truth starts to surface. He takes us by the hand and dares us not to sweep the facts under the rug but to confront them with him at our side.
When you're full of yourself, God can't fill you. But when you empty yourself, God has a useful vessel.
There's an antidote to our fears- trust. If we trust God more,we can fear less.
We will never be cleansed until we confess we are dirty. And we will never be able to wash the feet of those who have hurt us until we allow Jesus, the one we have hurt, to wash ours.
One of the things I discover a lot in marriage counseling is the husband or wife trying to get their spiritual thirst quenched by their partner; I think that's a real common mistake that we make.
Fear creates a form of spiritual amnesia
Love's very pain is sweet,_x000D_ _x000D_ But its reward is in the world divine_x000D_ _x000D_ Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave.
But sweetly and discreetly love passes from person to person, from heart to heart, or it is nothing worth.
He must have smiled at me, though I don't really know, but I don't like to think that I would love someone who hadn't first smiled at me.
One of the good things that come of a true marriage is, that there is one face on which changes come without your seeing them; or rather there is one face which you can still see the same, through all the shadows which years have gathered upon it.
The aim of every human being is to understand the meaning of total love.
It is good to love God for hope of reward, but it is better to love God for love's sake; and the prayer goes: O Lord, I do not want wealth nor children nor learning. If it be Thy will, I shall go from birth to birth. But grant me this, that I may love thee without the hope of reward 'love' unselfishly for love's sake.
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