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God loves you* and me* because He chose to love you (and me). God chose us before  the foundation of the world. (Ephesians 1:4) God chose us before we had done anything good or bad. (Romans 9:11) God doesn’t lie (Titus 1:2).  God doesn’t change (Malachi 3:6; James 1:17). God has no second thoughts! Once…

We were created for God’s glory. Which means we are to glorify God. (See Created for God’s Glory) The first step is to repent and believe in Christ. Salvation is essential. Until a person has received Christ as Lord and Savior, that person and God are enemies. (Romans 5:10) But! Once we are saved, we…

Humans were made to glorify God.* Everyone who is called by My name, and whom I have created for My glory, whom I have formed, even whom I have made.  (Isaiah 43:7) Some, though, have rejected God. (Romans 1:18-32) But some of us have repented, and have believed in Jesus Christ and the God who…

God acts for His Name’s sake. “God, for the sake of His Name, to act consistently with His holiness, to honor Himself, He absolutely will make His redeemed into the image of Christ.  He absolutely will bring us to glory.  He has all the power and authority to do so.  He has committed to do…

God is more holy, glorious, powerful, wise, and more, than we can imagine. He is creator. He is judge. He is …. In Scripture, we specifically are told that He did something for the sake of His Name. “His Name” is all who God is. His Name is His whole character, His nature, His attributes,…

This is awesome good news! God is holy. God is perfect. God cannot get more holy or more perfect. (And, of course, God does not get worse.) God does not change. There are a lot of implications of this, but right now I am thinking about God’s unchangeable love for His redeemed. We have all…

Just past those sand dunes is the Pacific Ocean! Endure with hope. For the joy set before Him, Christ endured the cross. Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.…

God’s Passionate Love has been poured out in us, His redeemed, believers in Christ! The love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us. (Romans 5:5) Amazing grace! We are to walk in love Be imitators of God, as beloved children; and walk in love,…

You may be in tremendous emotional or physical pain. The possible causes are too many to list, but, if you have been redeemed, if you have received Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, then God has a loving purpose for what you are going through. Remember: God loves you with an infinite, eternal, steadfast, all-knowing…

God—Father, Son, Holy Spirit—loves us* immensely more than we can fathom. If only we* knew how much, everything would be different. We would have joy abounding, NO anxiety, confident expectation that God was working everything for our glorification, and much much more. Because God loves us*, we have eternal life. For God so loved the…