The Love of Christ!

Have you ever wondered what the definition of love is? Today, I had a interesting thought and was wondering what it was. More so that I want to write about Agape love. So what is Agape Love?

Agape love is self-sacrificial. It is a unique love and can be seen from your nature and character. This unique love is from God and of God. As I was doing my Emmaus Study, I came across this attribute about God. It states that God is love. It is God's nature to love. As it is stated in 1 John 4: 8, "Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love." Although God hates sin, He loves sinners as in Romans 5:8 "But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us." God gave up His own beloved Son to die on the cross for me. What more can I ask for?

So now when I think of what love is, I am reminded of John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life." If the Lord can love a sinner, what more me that I have now become His child and I can call Him Abba Father. Amen!

The picture below is a nearby hillock, with a Moslem's cemetery on top and a broken cistern in its rocky face, bears the resemblance to a skull, which could be Golgotha. Every time I go through my pictures of my trip of Israel, I am reminded of this place where Jesus was crucified. Mark 15:22 "They brought Jesus to the place called Golgotha (which means The Place of the Skull)."

Lord I pray that I be more and more like you and love with out ceasing. Amen!

Emmaus Correspondence Study - What the Bible Teaches (2)

There is after all some colours in my life! This is the same picture of the previous one in black and white. Nice right?

After reading every chapter, there is an exam that I will have to take to test my understanding of the chapter and understanding of the Almighty Lord and Master of my life. God!

The first chapter, I was asked this question. "What do you think about the Bible?" This was my response. "The Bible is God's breath, It is God's teaching to me. It is a Holy book which I find comfort, peace and instructions from. It also is a book of encouragement for me and I can find God's instruction of obedience for me in the Bible."

When I finished the second chapter, this was the question at the end of it "What are your thoughts toward God?"My response to this is very simple. "God loves me even though I am a sinner. He is a loving, just, holy and unchangeable God. he is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. He is everywhere and knows everything. He is God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit."

These 2 questions really brought me to see the Lord as a loving, just and fair God who loves me even though I am a sinner and I should sin less from now onwards. I should be an imitator of the Lord and He is sinless but I know that I cannot meet up to Him and be a Lamb without blemish. I should try to be sin less from now onwards.

Read on to find out more of what I have learnt from this study. There are many books to do so I am taking it as it comes. Lord grant me the peace and patience and the love to know You more. Amen!

Emmaus Correspondence Study - What the Bible Teaches

This picture which I took reminded me that life can be black or white or colourful and it is up to me to make a choice how I want to live my life.

Because of an encouragement from Aunty Molly, I decided to do the Emmaus Correspondence Study. I'm starting the study with the foundation study of What the Bible Teaches.

On page 14 of What the Bible Teaches, this caught my attention. It states that "The Bible teaches us that man is a three-fold being - body, soul and spirit (1 Thessalonians 5:23 - "May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ."). It is hard for us to know the difference between soul and spirit because we cannot see them as we can see the body, but the Bible shows us that there is a difference. Animals have a body and a soul, but they have no spirit. A man has a body, a soul and a spirit.

The soul is what makes the difference between a living being and a dead one, but the spirit is what makes the difference between a man and an animal. Because we have a spirit, we can have a close relationship with God. Our feelings and desires come from the soul. Our ability to know and think comes from the spirit. Because we have a spirit, we are responsible to God. Our greatest duty is to find what God wants us to do and then do it.

It is indeed very profound but very true. I need to find what God wants me to do and then do it!!!

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Dear Lord and Heavenly Father,

I pray that You open my heart and mind to understand and have the wisdom and knowledge of what You want me to do so that I can do it. Lord You know the challenges that I have at work, I pray that as I lay them at Your feet You will grant me the wisdom and faith to know that You are in control of everything.

I pray all this in the name of my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.

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