A Balanced View of God’s Love. Part [1] 12/02/2025 (Evening thought)

Exodus 34: 6 And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth.

In our day, the word love is used frequently and very often without thought. It is conflated or confused at times with emotions, mood and feelings, in so much that when one says “I love you” folks are not sure anymore what that really means. Some persons declare that they love ice cream or an item of food. Others declare that they love God, but that too is often a vague assertion, while others like Tina Turner, relegate love to being a second-hand emotion.

The study for this evening will seek to explain in the clearest of terms what a balanced, Scriptural view of God’s love looks like, so that the next time we speak of His love, we will have a better understanding. The following points are important to harboring correct perspectives on God’s love. [1] God’s love is founded on principle, not emotions that fluctuate from day to day depending on feeling, mood, and circumstances, as is too often the case with us.

Everything God does, is from the basis of love, and if we were to trace what He does and permits, back to their very source, we would discover that love forms the springboard of all of His actions and decisions. It also forms the basis for all of His commandments or instructions to the human family, and it’s the reason why Jesus came to die for us, from His own free will. It's all about the foundational principle of love being the driving force behind all of God’s actions.

Exodus 34:8 And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.

May God add His blessing to the study of His word. “Good night” and God bless!

When Your Back Is against The Wall. Part [18] 12/01/2025 (Morning thought)

Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. 6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

[Healthful Living pp 97] The diet of animals is vegetables and grains. Must the vegetables be animalized, must they be incorporated into the system of an animal, before we get them? Must we obtain our vegetable diet by eating the flesh of dead creatures? God provided food in its natural state for our first parents. He gave Adam charge of the garden, to dress it and to care for it, saying, “To you it shall be for meat.” One animal was not to destroy another animal for food.

As subsidies are set to expire, and as premiums are scheduled to skyrocket, the you and me in the here and now may want to give God’s health care plan a second look, for the time will come when there may be only bad options on the table. Again, if your back is currently against the wall, and there seems to be no way out of your predicament, you cannot go wrong with turning to Jesus for help.

But we must be willing to follow the guidelines God has given us, because everything the Christian does is within the context of God working with freedom of choice. We therefore end with a passage of Scripture that will help us to make decisions in the positive, so that faith and works could converge at the crossroads of reality.

Proverbs 3:7 Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord, and depart from evil. 8 It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.

May The Lord add His blessing to the study of His word. God bless!