God Loves Us: 08/21/10

What is the most important message of the Bible?

What is the most important message of the Bible?
Answer: that God loves us.

The Bible has many messages that are important to us, but the most important of these is that He loves us. Just trying to get our heads around that unconditional, incredible love is a good starting point to trying to understand the Bible as a whole. God's love, in short, really is mindboggling! How many fathers would sacrifice their sons, especially if that son were perfect? And that is just one example of His love.

We think that because we are x or because we are y, God loves us less than other people. No! God loves everyone the same. Don't forget that Jesus said: "I have come not to call the righteous but to call sinners." (Matthew 9:13). It is by His grace that He loves us and not because we are worthy of His love.

So when you feel weak and unworthy, take His strength and His worth and start your day!
- H Pugh. 22/06/10

sabato 21 agosto 2010

God loves us, and He loves the sparrows too!

Yesterday for my birthday my friend gave me this poem on beautiful handmade paper. It is based on the Bible passage Matthew 6 25-37 especially verse 26: “26Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?”

Worry
Each morning as I rise up
Worry starts my day
For there are many problems
That always come my way.

I worry through the nighttime
Until dawn's early light.
Why should I ever be surprised
I don't sleep well at night?

I've come to this conclusion
About all the things that worry me:
If God can help the sparrows
He can sure take care of me.

So if I give my worries
To the one who knows me best
At last I will stop counting sleep
And get a good night's rest!

- J Morse, 1996