Do not withhold your mercy from me, Lord; may your love and faithfulness always protect me.
Psalm 40:11
My past life is abundantly full of God’s mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Full of Mercy
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Remaining In His Love
“As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. If you keep my commands,you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love.
John 15:9-10
As His (Jesus’) love for His Father was the source of obedience, and the motivation of His faithfulness to the work that had been committed to Him, so He declares that the love of His followers, imitating His love for them, was to be the source of their obedience. Further, through their obedience, would come all the good that can come to human beings, including their love for one another. Self-sacrificing love is the essence of the Christian life, its incentive being the self-sacrificing love of Christ himself. On the Emotional Life of Our Lord, B.B. Warfield
Master of the Heart
The Lord loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of his unfailing love.
Psalm 33:5
Christ will be master of the heart, and sin must be mortified. If your life is unholy, then your heart is unchanged, and you are an unsaved person. The Savior will sanctify His people, renew them, give them hatred of sin, and a love of holiness. The grace that does not make a man better than others is a worthless counterfeit. Christ saves His people, not IN their sins, but FROM their sins. Without holiness, no man shall see the Lord. Charles Spurgeon
Rooted In Love
And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Ephesians 3:17-19
“Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.” St. Augustine
A Love That Never Ceases
The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
Lamentations 3:22-23
“We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade, the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito. And the incognito is not always hard to penetrate. The real labour is to remember, to attend. In fact, to come awake. Still more, to remain awake.” Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer, C. S. Lewis
Fruit of The Spirit
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Galatians 5:22
“The fruit is designated as the fruit of the Spirit. Fruit is something that is produced in us. It is not of ourselves. In ourselves we are only flesh. The flesh produces nothing but more flesh. The flesh profits nothing. Martin Luther declared that “nothing” is not a “little something”.
Like begets like. The product comes from the producer. The progeny recapitulates the ontogeny. Only the Holy Spirit can conceive and bear the fruit of the Spirit… Spiritual love is wrought by God. We are able to love Him because He first loved us and because it is His love that is shed abroad in our hearts. This love transcends natural affection. It flows from a heart that has been changed by God the Holy Spirit. Fruit of the Spirit, R.C. Sproul
To Know Love
Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
1 John 4:8
“Wasn’t it Alexander the Great who had a soldier who bore his name who was unfaithful in duty and demonstrated cowardice? And Alexander called him in and said, “Either change your behavior or change your name.” And I think that’s, in a sense, what John is saying here. If you’re going to call yourself a Christian, if you’re going to say you are God’s and you belong to God and you truly are His, then conduct yourself as He would, with love.” John MacArthur
Love In Action
Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.
1 John 3:18
“He not only created you with care but redeemed you in love. And because He gives you both earthly and eternal life, He has a right to work through you as His ambassador, for His glory.” God’s Purpose For Your Life, Charles Stanley
Love Comes From God
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
1 John 4:7
“No one is beyond the reach of God’s love. Jesus made this clear by saving people like a greedy, dishonest tax collector, a criminal on the cross next to Him, and Saul—a persecutor of His church. God’s love isn’t dispensed according to how good we’ve been. On that basis, no one could be saved.
Divine love can’t be fully comprehended by the human mind, but it can nonetheless be ours through faith in Jesus Christ. And from the moment a person receives that love, he or she will forever live under its protective canopy. ” Charles Stanley
Love One Another
A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
John 13:34
“If there is anything in us, it is not our own; it is a gift of God. But if it is a gift of God, then it is entirely a debt one owes to love, that is, to the law of Christ. And if it is a debt owed to love, then I must serve others with it, not myself.” Martin Luther
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