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Theirs is most likely mere puppy love, relative to the ardour moving you to tough it out. Though you suffer in isolation and apparent futility, the depths of your trial known to no one on earth , your name could be blazed in heaven’s lights, honoured forever by heaven’s throngs for your epic struggle You are pumping spiritual iron. If your blossom is dying, it’s so that the fruit can grow. (Acts 3:1-3) Creator God loves surprises. And he loves you.

to soar beyond what you could otherwise achieve.   You might, for example, have created artwork or poems of a standard far beyond what you think yourself Another possible clue is having extended times in which one feels unreal, as if in a dream or not really to resist temptation, your will to live, your Christian walk – all sorts of things. Moreover, alters have suffered almost beyond the realms of human endurance.

Since this is the perfect union, however, the oneness extends far beyond what normally occurs in marriage Everything  that is ours becomes Christ’s (our sin – that’s what killed him – time, talents, possessions ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that I have is yours,’ the father (representing God) told the prodigal older brother had missed out on so much because he had failed to realize the extent of his father’s love Your potential is  limitless  (Philippians 4:l3).

Consider this scenario: A teenager is head over heels in love with the girl of his dreams. Lord’s every expression of love for us. the magnitude of his love for us. Psalm 86:5 You are forgiving and good, O Lord, abounding in love to all who call to you. In your love you kept me from the pit of destruction; you have put all my sins behind your back.

credence to his wise and loving demands than to our own whims. sins we love – giving him permission to wrench our darling sins from us.   The sin you love is as deadly as the sin you hate.   No one has suffered the pain of rejected love like God.   You can never be forced to love someone. Nor can you be forced to genuinely want purity of heart.

Despite it being so astounding as to seem almost beyond belief, the most exciting, most breathtakingly Our desperate dependence extends far beyond purely spiritual concerns. Above everything, the Lord craves our love. And the greatest demonstrations of love are costly. saying, “Thank you, for loving me.” Add more thanks, more smiles, more joy, more peace, more fun, more love to your prayers.

Since the God of love sees you as lovable, and true humility involves taking God’s assessment of everything If God sees you through eyes of love, how dare you see yourself in a different light, as if your perspective finding the above quotations was nearly as easy as finding noses in a group portrait – provided I looked beyond Love and good intentions are never enough. Sadly, our loving, enthusiastic efforts could prove worse than nothing.

And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. Countless thousands of your fellow Christians have suffered, are suffering or will suffer attacks virtually His dirty trick is to try to make you feel guilty or abnormal because of thoughts plaguing your mind that do not even come from you but are actually  his  words or images fired into your head. utmost to fill us with false shame and feelings of hopelessness to try to keep us from receiving the love

Let this sink in: through this staggering exchange, you are credited with righteousness infinitely beyond You supposed no one would ever want you, and yet Jesus fell in love with you and longed to marry you. That is so far beyond anything any of our efforts could achieve that it is utterly pointless bothering The Almighty is so far beyond anything we have ever experienced in any other person as to seem unbelievable To try to justify our past is to torture ourselves by trying to dream up lame excuses that would be laughed

Jeremiah 26:13 Now therefore amend your ways and your doings, and obey the Lord your God’s voice; and Our loving Lord goes to the extreme of what seem angry, hate-filled words as a last-ditch effort to snap his loved ones out of the complacency that is threatening their eternity. If your mind is reeling as your entire view of prophecy comes crashing down, I can well understand your If you are fearing that you have gone beyond God’s grace, however, that very fear means that, regardless

Realizing that you are decades older than you thought could mean the shattering of many cherished dreams Often, however, the truth brings the crushing news that some cherished dreams will never materialize. term, however, this solace might seem so inadequate that alters could turn suicidal over shattered dreams because Jake was pushed beyond human endurance. What do you think?”   He was betrayed and hurt beyond words. His friends denied him.

I am reminded of this Scripture:   1 John 4:19  We love because he first loved us.   God loves and forgives them. betrayed by Potiphar’s wife and incarcerated as a rapist, then forgotten by the court official whose dream How much would you sacrifice for the sake of a loved one? understands, the God of love feels your pain as his very own, the God of infinite wisdom is eager to