God will lead you in all you do if you allow him. Commit yourself in him with whatever you do and he will show you the paths he has chosen for you and give unto the plans he has established for only you. He will take all honor in you and guide you in all you do. His plans for you will prosper and come in abundance if you allow him to be your lead.
The worthy believers of the lands are the most honorable of all under God. Take pleasure in who they are and learn from them in love and honor. They make wonderful friends and are wonderful people.
16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
In all my writings I continue to emphasize God’s love. God’s love is immeasurable. You could try to name and count out all the practices of love that Christ has done but it is endless you’d never get there. We speak of how he wants us to love one another as he’s loved us. One of his best examples of that was in his love for us by death on the cross, that whole journey he already knew what was going to happen and what had to be done and he went through to the final moments not because he wanted to give up on life and wanted a way out in death for what his father was asking of him no his thoughts never even thought or believed that. The entire journey he was thinking of others thinking of US and honoring his father. He already knew death would become his consequence but he went ahead through with it taking the burden to stop several other consequences; the death of all man kind, he gave his life to save the entire human race out of the most honored and influential love that could ever be. This love forever lives on in history telling his story. He always speaks of love and how he wants us to be like him in the image of him. This includes his loving nature. Love meant and still means everything to who he is as a person.
John 3:16-18 The Message (MSG)
16-18 “This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life.
John 3:16-18 The Message (MSG)
16-18 “This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. God didn’t go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again. Anyone who trusts in him is acquitted; anyone who refuses to trust him has long since been under the death sentence without knowing it. And why? Because of that person’s failure to believe in the one-of-a-kind Son of God when introduced to him.
No matter how much love we have and give trying to do as he did in his enormity we could never get our love to expand as far as his in anything that we do. He gave us so many blessings, promises and commandments the greatest one being love. He opened himself to the greatest Immensity that he did because of his love for others and saving the world from their own brutal deaths. For the ones who believed and trust in him were acquitted. However in truth even through the chance of death by others for trusting God and being believers the real truth lies in that anyone who refuses to trust and believe in him faces the ultimate death not even realizing or knowing this is not an earthly death. For God promises eternal life with him that we may believe in him. Yet those who refuse to believe loose that honor for they have turned from him and betrayed him in not believing what he has taught and said. God saw that not everyone would believe in his teachings or have acceptance towards him but out of love he still honored them as his own and made the offer for a place in his home next to him on the throne and a life in eternity this was his gift of covenant to all humanity. The Greatest of God’s intentions was and is forever more love. To Christ love meant so much more than we as humanity could handle or honor. He knew that ungodly ways would take over in us this was why he went through with this journey for our very own freedoms and justices. He is an awesome God.
Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves. Love from the center of who you are; don’t fake it. Run for dear life from evil; hold on for dear life to good. Be good friends who love deeply; practice playing second fiddle. Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;
Love one another warmly as Christians, and be eager to show respect for one another. Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.
O Lord my God, you have performed many wonders for us.
Your plans for us are too numerous to list.
You have no equal.
If I tried to recite all your wonderful deeds,
I would never come to the end of them.
Psalm 40:5 English Standard Version (ESV)
5
You have multiplied, O Lord my God,
your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us;
none can compare with you!
I will proclaim and tell of them,
yet they are more than can be told.
O lord god, you have performed and overcome so many great things; such a multitude of extraordinary miraculous things. No one could compare with your thought for us, you created great plans you see for us so many have you made they can’t be counted on one hand and out number any number you’d try to count there is no number that will equal all that you are and what you have done. I will proclaim such the wonderful stories but I could never tell every story for they are too many to proceed with and speak.
No one could compare in any way with God not even try to, for no one can truly be exactly who he is. Yes he wants us to be like him but even being as he was loving and kind and caring for one another won’t nearly come to the magnitude of who he really was and is. Since before we were conceived in our mother’s womb God already had the best plan picked for the unique individual we were. Each plan different from the other no ones story the same. He created so many that the list is too many for there is no equality and so many stories performed that they can only have number and be counted by him as only he knows each and every one he has completed and created. If I tried to go through each one I would never come to an end for they are all endless. There is not one story or person who could compare to the knowledge and greatness that you are. Yes they can be like you in love and kindness but they can never truly measure up to the levels you have in you. Such wonderful things reaches higher than the heaven. There is no equality or number to cover it all. Only you can see all the wonders within your eyes sight.
Those of us who are strong and able in the faith need to step in and lend a hand to those who falter, and not just do what is most convenient for us. Strength is for service, not status. Each one of us needs to look after the good of the people around us, asking ourselves, “How can I help?” We should help others do what is right and build them up in the Lord. We are not to please ourselves and live in pleasures but find pleasures in bringing others to the lord and loving one another. We are meant to be sent to build one another and lift one another up not be the main pedestal and center of attention. The attention belongs to God through the help of us leading other to him through love and faith.
For you have been called to live in freedom, my brothers and sisters. But don’t use your freedom to satisfy your sinful nature. Instead, use your freedom to serve one another in love. Galatians 5:13 NLT
It is absolutely clear that God has called us to a free life. Just make sure that you don’t use this freedom as an excuse to do whatever you want to do and destroy your freedom. Rather, use your freedom to serve one another in love; that’s how freedom grows. For everything we know about God’s Word is summed up in a single sentence: Love others as you love yourself. That’s an act of true freedom. If you conflict with each other, watch out—in no time at all you will be annihilating each other, and where will your precious freedom be then?
God wants nothing but love in life, love for him, love for one another, love for life. He wants respect and honor. He wants a Godly journey and service not sinful in nature. For if we are anything other than these actions. He is disappointed and dissatisfied. He has given us freedoms for us to serve him and live by out of love, when we live out of entertainment and sinfulness we don’t honor him or each other and our freedoms can become removed. He will always love us but not our actions just as any parent when we’re rebellious and we in so many tens would become spiritually grounded and in dishonor and punishment loosing our freedoms just as if we were punished in a grounding as wild teens only this would be a spiritual grounding and punishment from God our Heavenly Father.
And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.
— Romans 5:5
Romans 5:5 New Living Translation (NLT)
5 And this hope will not lead to disappointment. For we know how dearly God loves us, because he has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with his love.
Romans 5:5 The Message (MSG)
3-5 There’s more to come: We continue to shout our praise even when we’re hemmed in with troubles, because we know how troubles can develop passionate patience in us, and how that patience in turn forges the tempered steel of virtue, keeping us alert for whatever God will do next. In alert expectancy such as this, we’re never left feeling shortchanged. Quite the contrary—we can’t round up enough containers to hold everything God generously pours into our lives through the Holy Spirit!
God has poured out all his love in our hearts giving us the greatest gift of all love. He did this by giving us the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit will never lead us to disappointment or abandon us for he remains with us always. It is God’s hope for us that in him we will live a love filled life for each other and life by his glory.
Romans 5:5 New International Version (NIV)
5 And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.
10-11 This is God’s Word on the subject: “As soon as Babylon’s seventy years are up and not a day before, I’ll show up and take care of you as I promised and bring you back home. I know what I’m doing. I have it all planned out—plans to take care of you, not abandon you, plans to give you the future you hope for.
He is the all knowing God only he knows the plans and all he sees for us and has in us
No one else can have knowledge of the steps we must take for the plans for our lives and our future only God knows the full plan for our life and he tells us that in Jeremiah 29 verse 11 by saying
Jeremiah 29:11 New Living Translation (NLT)
11 For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.
God is an all knowing God he’s known everything about us from the beginning as Psalm 139 proceeds to tell us
Psalm 139 New Living Translation (NLT)
Psalm 139
For the choir director: A psalm of David.
1
O Lord, you have examined my heart
and know everything about me.
2
You know when I sit down or stand up.
You know my thoughts even when I’m far away.
3
You see me when I travel
and when I rest at home.
You know everything I do.
4
You know what I am going to say
even before I say it, Lord.
5
You go before me and follow me.
You place your hand of blessing on my head.
6
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too great for me to understand!
7
I can never escape from your Spirit!
I can never get away from your presence!
8
If I go up to heaven, you are there;
if I go down to the grave,you are there.
9
If I ride the wings of the morning,
if I dwell by the farthest oceans,
10
even there your hand will guide me,
and your strength will support me.
11
I could ask the darkness to hide me
and the light around me to become night—
12
but even in darkness I cannot hide from you.
To you the night shines as bright as day.
Darkness and light are the same to you.
13
You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body
and knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14
Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!
Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.
15
You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion,
as I was woven together in the dark of the womb.
16
You saw me before I was born.
Every day of my life was recorded in your book.
Every moment was laid out
before a single day had passed.
17
How precious are your thoughts about me,O God.
They cannot be numbered!
18
I can’t even count them;
they outnumber the grains of sand!
And when I wake up,
you are still with me!
I’m verses 23-24 it continues on to say
23
Search me, O God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.
24
Point out anything in me that offends you,
and lead me along the path of everlasting life.
Only he knows you inside and out and formed your life from the beginning of creation you are his most important asset
I appeal to you, dear brothers and sisters, by the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, to live in harmony with each other. Let there be no divisions in the church. Rather, be of one mind, united in thought and purpose.
God wants us to live in peace, peace in life,peace with each other and peace in him.
Jesus was a simple peaceful man who wants us to live like him in his image. He wants no separation, no separation amongst the church or between each other. He wants us on common level which one another brought together as one in the mind and journey. He wants us to get along with each other, thoughtful and respecting of each other preparing for and living a life in common.
So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other. Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples.”
“Let me give you a new command: Love one another. In the same way I loved you, you love one another. This is how everyone will recognize that you are my disciples—when they see the love you have for each other.”
Then in Romans Jesus again speaks telling us to love one another in Romans 13 verse 8
[ Love Fulfills God’s Requirements ] Owe nothing to anyone—except for your obligation to love one another. If you love your neighbor, you will fulfill the requirements of God’s law.
For you have been called to live in freedom, my brothers and sisters. But don’t use your freedom to satisfy your sinful nature. Instead, use your freedom to serve one another in love.
He wants our love for each other to be overflowing and abundant as the greatest of all his commandments is love
Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works.
1 John reminds us that we have always been taught to love one another since the beginning and that it is what we’ve heard and been taught that we should know and be in harmony in life with for this lesson has always been the same in 1 John it states this
[ Love One Another ] This is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another.
1 John continues on to say this message reminding us that love is a passion from God and anyone who shares the love is a believer and child of God and has a personal relationship with God
Yes indeed, it is good when you obey the royal law as found in the Scriptures: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
In all these scriptures it speaks about love for one another and not putting yourself first but loving each other in all you do and this being the greatest of all commandments as it tells us in Mark and 1 Corinthians
Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud
God is love he’s hows the greatest love for his people and always has he has always taught us how to love from the beginning he showed us love by dieing for each of us on the cross
It teaches us in 1John verse 8 just where love comes from by saying this
“There’s nothing new to say on the subject. Don’t you still have the message of the earlier prophets from the time when Jerusalem was still a thriving, bustling city and the outlying countryside, the Negev and Shephelah, was populated? [This is the message that God gave Zechariah.] Well, the message hasn’t changed. God-of-the-Angel-Armies said then and says now: “‘Treat one another justly. Love your neighbors. Be compassionate with each other. Don’t take advantage of widows, orphans, visitors, and the poor. Don’t plot and scheme against one another—that’s evil.’
“I’ve told you these things for a purpose: that my joy might be your joy, and your joy wholly mature. This is my command: Love one another the way I loved you. This is the very best way to love. Put your life on the line for your friends. You are my friends when you do the things I command you. I’m no longer calling you servants because servants don’t understand what their master is thinking and planning. No, I’ve named you friends because I’ve let you in on everything I’ve heard from the Father.
It is absolutely clear that God has called you to a free life. Just make sure that you don’t use this freedom as an excuse to do whatever you want to do and destroy your freedom. Rather, use your freedom to serve one another in love; that’s how freedom grows. For everything we know about God’s Word is summed up in a single sentence: Love others as you love yourself. That’s an act of true freedom. If you bite and ravage each other, watch out—in no time at all you will be annihilating each other, and where will your precious freedom be then?
Regarding life together and getting along with each other, you don’t need me to tell you what to do. You’re God-taught in these matters. Just love one another! You’re already good at it; your friends all over the province of Macedonia are the evidence. Keep it up; get better and better at it.
Now that you’ve cleaned up your lives by following the truth, love one another as if your lives depended on it. Your new life is not like your old life. Your old birth came from mortal sperm; your new birth comes from God’s living Word. Just think: a life conceived by God himself! That’s why the prophet said, The old life is a grass life, its beauty as short-lived as wildflowers; Grass dries up, flowers droop, God’s Word goes on and on forever. This is the Word that conceived the new life in you.
My dear, dear friends, if God loved us like this, we certainly ought to love each other. No one has seen God, ever. But if we love one another, God dwells deeply within us, and his love becomes complete in us—perfect love!
Ed Elliott writes this article about greatest of all being love here’s his message
Ed Elliott
author, conference speaker itinerate/missionary who travels the world sharing truths about God’s love. Helping people experience God’s love personally.
One of the most amazing truths I have ever learned and experienced in my life comes from a very well known but often misunderstood verse of scripture. And now abideth faith, hope, love these three; but the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:13
Over 35 years ago, as a new believer, I was taught to focus on getting more faith and trying to stay hopeful when situations appeared hopeless. I often felt condemned when things went from bad to worse in my life. At the time, I believed it was because I didn’t have enough faith so I would do everything I knew to do to try and get even more faith.
One day, I heard the Holy Spirit say to my heart, “It isn’t more faith that you need but a greater understanding of how much God loves you.”
Suddenly, I knew why Paul taught that love is greater than faith and hope. Faith and hope alone cannot produce love but love alone has the ability to give birth to faith and hope in your heart. It is God’s love for us that is the source and foundation of why we can have faith and hope.
When your heart is persuaded to the fact that God loves you just as you are and not as you think you should be, you are able to trust or have faith in someone who loves you that way. Faith is simply a response to God’s love for you.
I want people to not just know about God’s love for them but to experience the reality of this truth in their own heart. This profound truth alone will impact their ability to be able to trust God which is what faith is all about and help them see that in Him their dreams and hopes will become a reality.
In the same way your physical body needs water, food, and oxygen to survive, believers need the spiritual atmosphere of faith, hope, and love to thrive. When your heart is fully persuaded to the fact God loves you, the fruit of that persuaded heart is faith and hope. Don’t make the mistake I made and major on the minors which was faith and hope but focus and major on love and faith and hope will flow naturally.
And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. 1 John 4:16
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