Showing posts with label 1 John 4:16. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1 John 4:16. Show all posts

Friday, November 13, 2015

HAPPY SABBATH + I Like God!







I Like God!
He is My Friend
On Whom I Can Depend!
I Like God!

Seriously, I Really Like God!

"Strange Expression, don't you Think!?!"

No! No! Not at all!

Think about this:

The people with whom I choose to associate are the people I really like, respect, trust, find companiable, comforting, helpful, comfortable, resourceful, loving, funny, smart, and trustworthy. 

We are the same things to each other, and we love each other enough to like being in each other's company ... all the time!

And ... we are all-around good people, with character and faith in The True and Living God. 

Look at God:


  • Faithful
  • Merciful
  • Helpful
  • Caring
  • Gracious
  • Resourceful
  • Creative
  • Artistic
  • Comforting
  • Comfortable
  • Trustworthy
  • Loving
  • Just
  • Companiable
  • Wise, and 
  • Funny and 
  • Serious and 
  • True, and
  • Truthful 


God Knows The Best Ways for Me to Walk, all The Best Places where I May Lay My Head, Sets The Best Table, Guards Against Enemy Attacks, and knows where The Living Waters Flow, AND He Gives Me Life!

Best of All, because He does not Pry, and Waits to be called, and is Always Available on Demand, I share things with Him that I will not Share with Another Living Soul, knowing full well that He will not "Desert Me" by Reason of my Weaknesses, and Bad Temper, and Lying, and Cheating and Stealing and Daily Fornications and Adulteries! 

God Listens and He Counsels, but there have been times when He put His foot down and Chastised Me, and stated clearly: "Don't Do That! That is Not The Way for You!"

He doesn't leave Me to "Figure it out!" for Myself!

He Teaches Me The Right Way, and Helps Me to Walk in it!

We have had a few dust-ups over the years, though and, believe me, things were pretty bad for a while!

You see, I wanted to do something that God - Repeatedly - told me not to do, and I got on my high horse, and called Him a few unflattering descriptives and went on my merry way and did my own thing and paid ... BIG TIME!!

I was totally ticked off at God after that Debacle!

"How could You let me do that?!
How could You let that happen to me?!
Why didn't You stop Me?!
I thought you were My Friend!"

Want to hear what He said:

"Beloved, you have Free Will and Free Choice!
I will Never Force you to do The Right Thing!
I will Chastise, and Plead, and Love, and Call you BUT I will let you Decide AND whatever The Decision is that you make, I will be here Waiting for you when you call!"

His Answer totally took The Wind out of my Overblown Sails!

One day, I told Him that I gave Him Permission to yank Me back when He sees me going Astray and, do you know what? 

He has taken that request to His Heart, and He sticks closer to me that even my brother can!

It is Amazing!

On another occasion, we were Talking, and I Wondered how He could be Satisfied to be Always Giving Me Blessings for which I could Never Repay Him?!

Do you know what He said!

"I Love You! 
It is Enough that you Desire to be with Me, and are always Talking Intimately with Me, willing to Follow My Lead, and that you Trust Me, and are Walking - Faithfully ... Steadfastly - on The Highway To Heaven, as you Learn and Grow from Following The Way as Set Forth in My Family Book of Gifts that I Gave to you!"

My Heart Leaped!

*******

God makes me Laugh - often!
God makes me Think - all the time!

In God, My Life is Complete
By God, I Stand Firmly on My Feet
With God, Bitter Tastes Sweet
For God Has Made Heaven The Prize
To Those who Faithfully Compete!

I Like God
He Is Wise
Uses No Lies
Plans No Way-out Strategies
Wisdom Is His Eye
I Can On Him Rely
By His Grace I Can Satan Defy
With His Mercy
In The Great By and By
I Will Live Forever
Winging To Worlds
Which Imaginings Can't Prophesy!

I Like God!
This Is Not About Obligatory Love
This Is Friendship ... And Beyond
He Called Himself My Friend - Unto The End
And Sought Me Out When I Faced Harm
He Looks Out For Me - Day and Night
He Fights For Me - Dissolving The Blight
He Died For Me - To Give Me His Light
He Carries Me - When Cares Benight
He Comforts Me - When I Take A Fright
He Watches Me - I Am Ever In His Eyesight
And Because Of His Sacrificial Love
I Shall Gain The Winner's Wreath At The End Of The Fight!
I Really, Really, Like God!




Thursday, September 24, 2015

God's Love IS ... No Lie!




"Looking for Love!
Will Work for Love!"
Her sign held high
At the corner she stood.


"Don't look for Love!
Love makes you Cry!
Sometimes Love even makes you Die!
Love IS a Lie!"



"Oh, poor is Me!
What is it that I See?
Love dressed in Hate
Going out on a Devil Date?
Oh, Lord, help Me!"

And THEN ...

A Voice was Heard
No arrogant talker he
Gentle, compassionate
Beseeching, fervent
Yet calling ... gently:

Meet Jesus Christ!
The Lord of Love!
The Savior Redeemer sent from Heaven Above
His Love is Pure
His Love is Free
His Love has No Limits that Human Eye can See!

He Is Love Personified!
He came to Earth!
He was Baptized!
The Spirit as Dove upon Him did descend
His Father spoke of His Beloved
His Voice came from Heaven in Love for His Love!

Pure Love as Jesus ... went out to The Desert
Pure Love as Jesus ... was Sore Tempted by The Knave
But Pure Love put down 
The Hungry Temptations in 40 Days
Proving, plainly proving, that He was no Flesh Slave!

Jesus ... In Love ... Taught and Preached
And Loved, and Healed, His People!

And Jesus ... In Love
Went to The Cross That Cruel Day!

Jesus ... By Love ... was Nailed on The Tree!

Jesus ... For Love ... let Sin securely nail Him there
So that You and Me
Wouldn't Eternal Death
Have to share!

Heaven Cried ...
Satan Rejoiced ... Exultantly!

Jesus could have Stepped Down
Jesus could have Stepped Away
 ... Not been Crucified
But Jesus had come
Our Sin for to Pay!

Nails did not keep Jesus on The Cross!
Nails could not have kept Jesus on The Cross!

So ... Let Us Know and Understand and Accept this:


Love for His Lost Loved Ones
Fixed Jesus to The Cross that Day!

The Love of God
The Life of Jesus and
The Spirit's Truth 
Exploded in Three Days
And The Stone on The Tomb by The Angels
Rolled Away! 
Rolled Away!

Loving Jesus
Gentle Jesus
Lamb of The Sacrifice
In Light and Life Gloriously Re-Appeared!

And when Jesus was finally Returning to His Father
Two Angels to the Assembled Believers declared:



This Same Jesus 
That You See Ascending
Will Descend in Like Manner Again 
One Coming Day!


Love IS Alive!
Love is TRULY Alive!

Love is JESUS
And Jesus IS ALIVE!

Love Jesus 
and 
You Dear People 
Will Be Truly Alive!!

GOD'S LOVE IS NO LIE!