Happy New Year! So then, moving on from yesterday's In the beginning...God...
For I am convinced that neither death nor life,
neither angels nor demons,
neither the present nor the future,
nor any powers, neither height nor depth,
nor anything else in all creation,
will be able to separate us from the love of God
that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:38-39
I had lunch with my good friend and brother, Pastor Jeff Collins of Christ Memorial Baptist Church*, here in Dover, Delaware, John Groth, of PriorityOne**, and a few other men. Jeff presented us with a list of resolutions made by one of the American fathers of the faith and a key figure of the Great Awakening, Jonathan Edwards***. One of those resolutions reads:
Resolved, to examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt of the love of God; and to direct all my forces against it.
I had an initial, knee-jerk reaction to this -- I don't doubt the love of God, so let's move on it is a long list of resolutions!) But the conversation (as conversations with these guys tend to do) began to go deeper, and I have continued to think about it since.
Do I ever doubt God's love? Do you? Are you as convinced as the Apostle Paul of the fullness of God's Love?
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Questions:
1. For God so loved the world... what does that mean? 2. Are you certain of His love for you? 3. What might it look like to doubt His love?
INTERESTING THOUGHT:
"Our love to God is measured by our everyday fellowship with others and the love it displays." Andrew Murray
"Beware you are not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge." John Wesley
"If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all we wanted to say,
every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them." Christopher Morley
"Love is the great conqueror of lust." C.S. Lewis
LINKS:
* http://www.christmemorialbaptist.org/
** http://priorityone.org
*** http://www.jonathan-edwards.org/
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