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  *  You are madly in love with someone who is equally over the moon about you, but you are too shy Scriptures:   Matthew 22:37  Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all Now which of them will love him more?”   million dollars and blown up two buildings, but now that I’ve also lied about my age I’ve finally gone beyond whether we are the most saintly or the most wicked people on earth, God’s standards are still infinitely beyond

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).

To stop intrusive thoughts completely is beyond human power, but our reaction determines how much they The more you fear them, the more they will keep invading your mind. Of course, just like contemplating what our loving Lord suffered at the hands of his Roman torturers, Moreover, it went far beyond words: for countless times she would vividly visualize personally doing you can’t imagine how one can think such horrible thoughts about the Holy God and Savior you love so

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.

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

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.

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

None of us is immune, and any Christian supposing he is beyond deception is a particularly easy target If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. John 15:19  If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. Imagining that we are beyond the possibility of being blinded by worldly thinking is an example of pride Jeremiah 17:9  The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?