Comments on: The Love of God http://www.fromdeathtolife.com/2010/02/01/the-love-of-god-2/ Learning to Serve Jesus in a Fallen World Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:54:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Mini Craig http://www.fromdeathtolife.com/2010/02/01/the-love-of-god-2/comment-page-1/#comment-21 Mini Craig Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:47:04 +0000 http://fromdeathtolife.com/2010/02/01/the-love-of-god-2/#comment-21 These are encouraging thoughts brother. As Spurgeon said, "We were chosen from before the foundations of the world. Everlasting love went with the choice, for it was not a bare act of divine will by which we were set apart, but the divine affections were concerned."<br><br>It is humbling and instructive when we meditate on the fact that we did nothing to merit God's love or favor, but that God chose us "according to the purpose of his will" (Eph. 1:5). He did not choose us because we were holy, but to make us holy (Eph 1:4). And God called us as individuals, but made us part of a body, meant to encourage and sharpen and challenge us, and so that we might encourage and sharpen and challenge others. The body of Christ is an amazing thing! It is an organism, but also a family, a family of which you are an indispensible part. And for that I am thankful. These are encouraging thoughts brother. As Spurgeon said, “We were chosen from before the foundations of the world. Everlasting love went with the choice, for it was not a bare act of divine will by which we were set apart, but the divine affections were concerned.”

It is humbling and instructive when we meditate on the fact that we did nothing to merit God's love or favor, but that God chose us “according to the purpose of his will” (Eph. 1:5). He did not choose us because we were holy, but to make us holy (Eph 1:4). And God called us as individuals, but made us part of a body, meant to encourage and sharpen and challenge us, and so that we might encourage and sharpen and challenge others. The body of Christ is an amazing thing! It is an organism, but also a family, a family of which you are an indispensible part. And for that I am thankful.

]]> By: Mini Craig http://www.fromdeathtolife.com/2010/02/01/the-love-of-god-2/comment-page-1/#comment-27 Mini Craig Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:47:04 +0000 http://fromdeathtolife.com/2010/02/01/the-love-of-god-2/#comment-27 These are encouraging thoughts brother. As Spurgeon said, "We were chosen from before the foundations of the world. Everlasting love went with the choice, for it was not a bare act of divine will by which we were set apart, but the divine affections were concerned."<br><br>It is humbling and instructive when we meditate on the fact that we did nothing to merit God's love or favor, but that God chose us "according to the purpose of his will" (Eph. 1:5). He did not choose us because we were holy, but to make us holy (Eph 1:4). And God called us as individuals, but made us part of a body, meant to encourage and sharpen and challenge us, and so that we might encourage and sharpen and challenge others. The body of Christ is an amazing thing! It is an organism, but also a family, a family of which you are an indispensible part. And for that I am thankful. These are encouraging thoughts brother. As Spurgeon said, “We were chosen from before the foundations of the world. Everlasting love went with the choice, for it was not a bare act of divine will by which we were set apart, but the divine affections were concerned.”

It is humbling and instructive when we meditate on the fact that we did nothing to merit God's love or favor, but that God chose us “according to the purpose of his will” (Eph. 1:5). He did not choose us because we were holy, but to make us holy (Eph 1:4). And God called us as individuals, but made us part of a body, meant to encourage and sharpen and challenge us, and so that we might encourage and sharpen and challenge others. The body of Christ is an amazing thing! It is an organism, but also a family, a family of which you are an indispensible part. And for that I am thankful.

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