Feb 27, 2025 … God’s Forever Love

Feb 27, 2025 … God’s Forever Love 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...    Please take the time to take in this song with music and lyrics with Michael W Smith  singing … His Love Endure Forever,  singing praise to God for His eternally enduring love.

  

Highlight Passage: … Hosea 3:1 …[NLT] … 

1 Then the Lord said to me, “Go and love your wife again, even though she commits adultery with another lover. This will illustrate that the Lord still loves Israel, even though the people have turned to other gods and love to worship them.”          

… God shows how The Lord’s command for Hosea to show love for his adulterous wife like God’s loves and pursues Israel in spite of her idolatrous ways.      

Highlight Passage (in context):… Hosea 3 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… God commands Hosea to love His unfaithful wife just as God’s love for and adulterous Israel is eternal.                                                                          

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Reference Passage: … Psalms 136:26 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God’s Psalmist, likely King David, sings of God’s love enduring FOREVER.

Reference Passage: … Zephaniah 3:17 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God’s Prophet, Zephaniah, shows of God’s love and pursuit of love for His faithful followers.  

Reference Passage: … John 3:16, 15:13  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… John, in his Gospel account, shows the extent of God’s love for His chosen people in that He was willing to give up His son to save even his unfaithful people. 

Reference Passage: … Romans 5:8 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… The Apostle Paul assures fellow Christians that God showed his great love for His born-again believers by being willing to die to save even sinners. 

Reference Passage: … Romans 8:37-39 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul also assures Christians that NOTHING can separate them (us) from God’s love.

Reference Passage: … 1John 4:16, 19  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… John shows fellow Christians that we can love one another because Christ first loved us.  

                            

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author - Tom Felton … AT THIS LINK     … related a story about some fellow Christian friends, Scott and Bree, who were in a quandary about how to relate to some acquaintances who didn’t share their Christian values.  But they learned from the Highlight passage from the Book of Hosea in the Bible, as well as from meditating on the Scriptures shared in today’s journaling, that they must continue to reach out and share God’s love, which is eternal, and will ultimately reveal God’s love through Scott and Bree conveying that love for their new acquaintances. 

I’m stopping to pray - right now - that we - God’s ambassadors of love, reach out and simply - tho difficult at times - share God’s love with others.  Perhaps God will give us an opportunity, even today, to share His love with someone.                  

          

My Thanksgiving: … Oh, King Jesus, thank You, … for loving me so that I can share Your love with others. 

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray, … again today, … that all reading here will join me, …  to willingly and gladly share your love and enabling grace with others - maybe even today!   … Amen

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