Kansas City, Missouri,
United States - Reflecting God – Embrace Holy Living - “True Love” – Tuesday, 15
April 2014 - Scripture: Psalm 52: For the
Chief Musician. A contemplation by David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told
Saul, “David has come to Abimelech’s house.”
1 Why do you boast of
mischief, mighty man?
God’s loving kindness endures continually.
2 Your tongue plots
destruction,
like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
3 You love evil more
than good,
lying rather than speaking the truth.
Selah.
4 You love all devouring
words,
you deceitful tongue.
5 God will likewise
destroy you forever.
He will take you up, and pluck you out of
your tent,
and root you out of the land of the living.
Selah.
6 The righteous also
will see it, and fear,
and laugh at him, saying,
7 “Behold, this is the
man who didn’t make God his strength,
but trusted in the abundance of his riches,
and strengthened himself in his
wickedness.”
8 But as for me, I am
like a green olive tree in God’s house.
I trust in God’s loving kindness forever
and ever.
9 I will give you thanks
forever, because you have done it.
I will hope in your name, for it is good,
in the presence of your saints.
“True Love” by Cynthia
K. Stiverson
It’s hard to conceive
“unfailing love.” Love has become synonymous with infatuation, lust, sex, and
sensuality. Love is an excuse for abuse, catching a mate, for cheating and
adultery, pornography, even for the purpose of sex trafficking and
prostitution. On the lighter side, love is used to describe our favorite color,
food or song. You name it-we “just love it!”
Is it any wonder that
many of us cringe at the thought of love? As a minister, I’ve met far too many
people who cannot trust God because they cannot fathom God’s love for them.
They’ve either been deeply wounded by human love or the lack of it; or, they
feel unforgivable because they have used love as a means to an end.
“If anyone loves the
world, love for the Father is not in them. For everything in the world—the lust
of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the
Father but from the world” (1 John 2:15b-16). Isn’t it refreshing to know that
our associations with love have nothing to do with the love of God?
“God is love” (1 John
4:7). Seek His forgiveness today for your tainted vision of love.
Hymn for Today:
“The Love of God” by Frederick
M. Lehman
1. The love of God is
greater far
Than tongue or pen can ever tell.
It goes beyond the
highest star
And reaches to the lowest hell.
The guilty pair, bowed
down with care,
God gave His Son to win;
His erring child He
reconciled
And pardoned from his sin.
Chorus:
O love of God, how rich
and pure!
How measureless and strong!
It shall forevermore
endure—
The saints’ and angels’ song.
2. When hoary time shall
pass away,
And earthly thrones and kingdoms fall;
When men who here refuse
to pray,
On rocks and hills and mountains call;
God’s love, so sure,
shall still endure,
All measureless and strong;
Redeeming grace to
Adam’s race—
The saints’ and angels’ song.
Chorus:
O love of God, how rich
and pure!
How measureless and strong!
It shall forevermore
endure—
The saints’ and angels’ song.
3. Could we with ink the
ocean fill,
And were the skies of parchment made;
Were every stalk on
earth a quill,
And every man a scribe by trade;
To write the love of God
above
Would drain the ocean dry;
Nor could the scroll
contain the whole,
Though stretched from sky to sky.
Chorus:
O love of God, how rich
and pure!
How measureless and strong!
It shall forevermore
endure—
The saints’ and angels’ song.
Thought for Today:
“See how great a love
the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this
cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.” (1 John 3:1).
Prayer Needs:
For those in
Asia-Pacific showing the JESUS Film
and for those doing follow-up work!
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