God’s Love Revealed Image | His Glory My Joy, a blog of Author Luana Ehrlich

To Be Loved

August 18, 2021 1 comment

The words, “I don’t love you,” have to be the most hurtful words ever spoken. As human beings, we are born with the desire to be loved. Whether it’s romantic love, family love, brotherly love or even self love, God gave us the desire to be loved and to love God, others, and ourselves.

Love comes from God. “Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God.” (1 John 4:7).

Because human love is so flawed by sin, none of us can ever love ourselves or another human being perfectly. In the same way, until we receive our glorified, perfected bodies, we can’t love God perfectly.

God has no such hindrances. He loves perfectly. On three different occasions, the prophet Daniel was told by the angel Gabriel that he was greatly loved by God. “I have come to tell it to you, for you are greatly loved.” (Daniel 9:23). The same thought is expressed in Daniel 10: 11 and Daniel 10:19.

How sweet those words must have sounded to Daniel! How would you like to hear those words for yourself? Well, you can.

Paul says in Ephesians 2:4-5: “God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses,made us alive together with Christ.”

God’s love is on display for us in Romans 5:8.“But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”

Like Daniel, God sent word to us that we are greatly love. He sent His Word in the form of His Son who demonstrated how much he really loved us by paying the penalty for our sins by His death on the cross

Accept His love. Bask in His Love. Know His love for all eternity.

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God’s Love For You

December 20, 2014 3 comments

God’s love for you can never be restrained.

It bursts forth in smiles
from a cattle stall.

It shouts out in praise
from a heavenly host.

It cries out in anguish
from an old rugged cross.

Categories: Christmas, God's Love, Poems, Worship Tags: Christmas Anguish, Christmas Praise Angels, Christmas Smile, God's Anguish Image, God's Love Revealed Image, God's Love Unrestrained, Heavenly Angels Praise, Image God's Smile, Praise Shout, Rugged Cross Anguish, Smile God's Love

Is Your Godliness Hidden Away?

October 16, 2014 Leave a comment

In my lifetime, I’ve known several people who claimed to be followers of Christ, but whose actions didn’t appear to back up this assertion.

From what I could observe, none of the attributes of the fruit of the Spirit from Galatians 5:22—love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness—were in evidence in their talk or in their walk.

If these characteristics were part of who they were, I didn’t see it.

For me to believe a person is truly born again, like the plant that suddenly burst forth from my flowerbed last week, these Spirit-filled qualities need to make an appearance.

Sometimes, similar to the way the plant that was hidden beneath the soil of my garden all summer, certain conditions need to be met before a person’s true godly nature can be known.

In like manner, unless God had chosen to reveal His love—an intrinsic component of who He truly is—then, we would not and, indeed, could not, have known Him. If God’s love, mercy, compassion, kindness, goodness, had stayed within God and not appeared in the form of His Son, none of us would have ever benefitted.

Without this revelation of God’s nature, all of us would be lost forever.

“But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us . . . through Jesus Christ our Savior . . .” (Titus 3:4-6).

As a Spirit-filled child of God, allow the fruit of His Spirit to burst forth from you today. May those around you see what is hidden within you.

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