Daily Bread_February 21, 2013

Title: Two Inseparable Gifts

Text:

Romans 13:10 (HCSB)
¹⁰ Love does no wrong to a neighbor. Love, therefore, is the fulfillment of the law.

Matthew 6:12 (HCSB)
¹² And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.

Observation:

I have some hard things to talk to the Father about this morning; however, it is good to start my day with this good word from God's word.

Remember if you are going to love others, as God commands, you will have to forgive others. It's not about fairness; it's about forgiveness.  Before you invoke fairness, remember what you used to be. I'll exchange forgiveness for fairness any day.

Titus 3:3 (HCSB)
³ For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another.

In my bible love is a command not a suggestion.

John 13:34 (HCSB)
³⁴ "I give you a new command: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you must also love one another.

However, love is God's gift to his children. If you don't have it, you don't belong to him.

Romans 5:5 (HCSB)
⁵ This hope will not disappoint {us}, because God's love has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

Romans 8:9 (HCSB)
⁹ You, however, are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, since the Spirit of God lives in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.

Prayer:

Our Father in heaven, my dear Father, I praise and thank you that I am not like I used to be, and I am so glad that the best is yet to come because I am not yet all that I am going to be. Father, I look forward to that day when I shall be free from the presence of sin. Oh, that will be glory. Father, I thank you that love lasts forever, and that forgiveness never gets old. In Jesus name, Amen.

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Acts 6:4 (KJV)
⁴ But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.

 

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