Dear Father in Heaven: I love You and I appreciate the fact that You love me, as I am a sinner saved only by Your grace. Thanks for watching over our flock that follows this line and thanks for watching over our family and friends. Help me to walk with You each day and not losing my focus on You, not even for one second. Please, dear Lord, help me with the daily message and then to get it dispatched to where You want it to go. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.
Dear brothers and sisters, it was a great day here at the Southern location of the North Pole. I would not get upset if it stayed like this until spring. Be alert for school kids and school buses. Again today God has me writing about Love. What a wonderful and blessed four-letter word!!
Thursday: August 27, 2015: Love (Day Three)
Psalm 36:5 - Your love, O Lord, reaches to the heavens, Your faithfulness to the skies. 6 Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains, Your justice like the great deep. O Lord, You preserve both man and beast. 7 How priceless is Your unfailing Love! Both high and low among men find refuge in the shadow of Your wings. (NIV)
God pointed me to this scripture today as it shows just how great our Lord's Love is. It reaches to the heavens. Some nice night go outside and sit for awhile looking up and just seeing how vast the heavens really are. It goes on to say His faithfulness reaches to the skies. His righteousness is like the mighty mountains and His justice goes to the great deep, meaning the bottom of the oceans. Let me shorten that a tad. His, our Lord God, His Love, faithfulness, righteousness, and justice covers everything God made in creation. Nothing, not one thing left out including each one of us. I want you to really think about that. Stand in front of the mirror and ask that one that is looking back at you, how far does my love, faithfulness, righteousness, and justice go? While if we are really going to walk in the light of Jesus and try our very best to be like Him, then, we should be trying our very best to let our love, faithfulness, righteousness, and justice reach out like that.
Let me break it out a tad. Our love for Jesus and all others? By all means yes. Our faithfulness to Jesus and all others? Of course. Our righteousness? Yes, for sure.
Our justice? Well, you might say our justice, why should we worry about justice for others? Remember, Jesus will deal with us as we deal with others. Hey, don't blame me, I did not write this rule book, it is the Word of God. So we try and live by it the best we can. Are we going to mess up? Of course, that is why Jesus died on the cross for us. I like this last verse of today's scripture.
Psalm 36:7 - How priceless is your unfailing love! Both high and low among men find refuge in the shadow of Your wings. (NIV)
His love is unfailing, meaning it is always there for us and it is priceless, meaning it cannot be purchased. His love is not for sale, it is free for us if we just ask. And it goes on to say it is for high and low among men and we can find refuge in Him. Of course men means men and women and it takes into account all people, ALL PEOPLE, for God loves us all the same. Praise God for that, right!!! I am so happy that I serve a God that forgives for indeed I am a sinner who surely needed and still needs forgiving. Amen.
Thank You, Jesus, for Loving us enough to give Your life for us. Amen.
Now go forth and serve God. Love ya.
Pastor Dan
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