BY She Reads Truth
Use today to pray, rest, and reflect on this week’s reading, giving thanks for the grace that is ours in Christ.
We love because he first loved us.
—1 John 4:19
41 thoughts on "Grace Day"
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I must smile, I write a daily devotion to a small group and today I write something about each of my children that God created in them that I especially love! What comfort and joy it brought me!
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I love because I have known and continue to know His love..
Full stop!
Period!
That’s it!
AMEN.
Happy sunny Sunday! May the Lord God, who first loved us, turn His face to shine on you and yours today with love..❤
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Love this verse
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So grateful for his love today! So thankful that we can always count on it!
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❤️
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Slowly but surely learning to love better
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In considering love, the love with which he first loved us, the eyes of my soul are being drawn to look again upon the suffering sacrifice of the Lord Jesus upon the cross. Then, as I meditate on John’s many exhortations for us to love one another, I am reminded the love for my neighbor is to be extraordinary in that I, too, am to suffer in sacrifice. Oh how our flesh resists such an idea, especially in terms of loving our enemies this way! Then, I remember our Lord in the garden wrestling with the same recoiling of the flesh. He needed to be strengthen to walk the path of the cross. I need this strengthening as well. Our suffering isn’t just physical, though it is physical. Our suffering isn’t just relational rejection and verbal mistreatment, though it includes this relational pain. Our suffering isn’t just the loss of material comforts and ease, though it often does include this loss. I’ve been reading biographies of past women saints who suffered much for the gospel of Christ. As I read these stories, I realize my suffering pales in comparison. I’m inspired, challenged and convicted. Yet, I am hopeful that we have a Lord and Savior to help us grow into valiant godly women while we are acutely aware of our weaknesses and flaws and sin still needing pruning and strengthening. Our Father in heaven is the one to prune us as he is the great Gardener (or Vine dresser). Our part is to keep abiding in the Vine, the true Christ. I pray this will be true of each of us, dear SRT sisters! May each of us know we are deeply loved by him who first loved us.
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