*Points to Ponder*

Love is like a stream. Some days it

flows and rushes, for there is plenty.

On other days it trickles, and you

can see it bouncing against the

unseen rocks. But even when love

is dry and has lost its flow and lies

nearly empty on the muddy bottom,

there is more love to come.

We remember how Jesus loved,

how He forgave, and how He

reached out to show He cared. By

using Jesus as the Source of love, we

can fill up the stream again. Life has

the extra dimension found in Jesus

Christ. He is the Authority on love.

Jesus loves when love is hard. He

loves when love is rejected. He loves

when love makes little sense. Jesus

loves when others would quit. Jesus

loves when others are ugly. Jesus loves

when others are cold. Jesus loves

when others are unworthy.

And when we feel that love has

dried up, we reach out to Him,

and learn to love again.

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Nothing you will ever do could

make God love you more than He

does right now: not greater achievement,

not greater beauty, not wider

recognition, not even greater levels of

spirituality and obedience. Nothing

you have ever done could make God

love you any less: not any sin, not

any failure, not any guilt, not any regret.

John Ortberg (b. 1957)

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Do you think anyone is going to

be able to drive a wedge between

us and Christ’s love for us? There

is no way! Not trouble, not hard

times, not hatred, not hunger, not

homelessness, not bullying threats,

not backstabbing, not even the worst

sins listed in Scripture. None of this

fazes us because Jesus loves us. I’m

absolutely convinced that nothing—

nothing living or dead, angelic or

demonic, today or tomorrow, high or

low, thinkable or unthinkable—absolutely

nothing can get between us and

God’s love.

—Romans 8:35,37–39 MSG

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The love of God is one of the great

realities of the universe, a pillar upon

which the hope of the world rests.

But it is a personal, intimate thing,

too. God does not love populations,

He loves people. He loves not

masses, but men. He loves us all with

a mighty love that has no beginning

and can have no end.

A. W. Tozer (1897–1963)

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God’s love reflects His eternal absolutes.

God’s love is eternal, like He is:

more durable than time, wider and

deeper than the incalculable dimensions

of the cosmos. As He tells us,

“I have loved you with an everlasting

love; therefore with lovingkindness

I have drawn you.” Jeremiah  31:3

David Jeremiah (b. 1941) 

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From Jesus:

 “Try Me……

“If you don’t know Me yet, then I have a proposal for you: rather than trying to figure Me out, why

not give Me a chance to show you the truth? I am not just talking about right and wrong, or good

advice, but supernatural truth. All that I am cannot be comprehended by the mind. You have to

seek and understand with your heart. Why not see for yourself if I am real and ‘the way, the truth,

and the life,’ as I told My first disciples?*

Why not put Me to the test?

Accept My love and presence into your life, and then see what I can do for you.”

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“I can be your closest friend and confidant. I can help you when things go wrong and you need

support. I can give happiness in place of grief, and I can bring beauty out of the ashes of failure

and mistakes. Once you ask Me into your life, I will never leave you.

That’s a solemn pledge! I will always love and care for you in spite of everything,

including your own faults and heartbreaks.

Once you connect with Me personally, and as you delve into what I have revealed in the Bible—

particularly in the Gospels—you will discover pure and life-giving truths.

There’s a personal message from Me to you within that book.

“All you need to do to start receiving all that I have to offer is open your heart and invite Me in.”

*See John 14:6