How Sweet It Is

How sweet it is to know,
The Lord God loves thee so.
Thou art the apple of His eye.
And so that thou mayest no more die,
He gave His only begotten Son,
Who, on the cross died after crying, "It is done."

Cherubim and seraphim wander in awe,
And praise their Maker evermore,
"What love Thou hast,
Contend to give Thy Best,
Upon Adam's ruined race
And thus to save them by Thy grace."

To every penitent heart, God says,
"Goodness and mercy all thy days
Shall surely follow thee.
Arise, repent, believe in Me.
Wait on Me, draw nigh,
And I'll bestow thee power from on high."

"In sickness and in health,
Poverty or wealth,
Life or death, I will be ever near,
And to all the sorrowful, I will truly hold dear.
I love thee that much, I was thy sacrifice
To atone fully for thy sins, yea, I paid the price."

By: Lawrence Rue

"The Friend Who Stands By"

When troubles come your soul to try
You Love the friend who just stands by.
Perhaps there's nothing she can do
The thing is strictly up to you.
For there are troubles all your own
And paths the soul must tread alone.
Times when love can't smooth the road
Nor friendship lift the heavy load.
But just to feel you have a friend
Who will stand by until the end.
Whose sympathy through all endures
Whose warm handclasp is always yours.
It helps somehow to pull you through
Although there's nothing she can do.
And so with fervent heart we cry
God Bless the friend who just stands by.
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Can God change our lives?

God can change our lives because God made us for a reason, He also decided when we would be born and how long we would live. He planned the days of our life in advance, choosing the exact time of our birth and death. The Bible says, " You saw me before I was born and scheduled each day of my life before I began to breathe. Every day was recorded in our Book!"

Do we need to read the Bible everyday?

                  When I asked my mom and little brother, they said yes and they really read the Bible everyday. Some people said no because they said God is already there in their hearts. They knew some scriptures by heart. They could recite without reading the Bible.
                 As a Christian, I have one suggestion that we should at least have finished reading the Bible for one time. We are giving time for preparing food, working and having fun but we don't want to spend 10 to 15 minutes for reading the Bible. The Bible is holy. We could find the words of God in it.
                If we read it, we know what God is tell us. The do's and the don'ts. We used to say a prayer to God , asked whatever we want from God. Reading the Bible is the only one way that God is talking to us. These words will touch our hearts and lead us in our lives.
Whenever we faced hardship and get into trouble, He has already prepared the ways for us to escape from that.
               For Physically, we need daily bread, food, medicines, so it is the same thing with our spiritual lives. We need the spiritual strength to grow by reading the Bible everyday.

Love is as strong as death (Song of Songs 8: 6)

The Lord Will Provide The Lamb. ( Genesis 22:8 )
Why does God provide the Lamb for us?
He always shows His Love to us. His Love is amazing!!! So, that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. (John 3:13).

Is Jesus really the promised Messiah of Israel? 

We need to take a tour of some of the major highlights of Jesus’ life. Or we need to preview what people were saying before Christ was born. Definitely, we have to read the Bible for that.

 Is He really Lord of the universe?

Jesus Christ saved us from sin and eternal punishment for it in the lake of fire.
His love for us is probably the greatest thing in the entire universe. His love is perfect.
There is nothing that could be added to or taken away from His love. It is complete.

God will never leave you alone; God Loves You

 There are some times we could feel that no one is there beside us. Life would not be always beautiful. We have to face the problems without fail. For that, we might have doubt on one thing. Does God really abandon us? or Do because of his abandonment, the problems came to us? If we think seriously, we are born to serve each other. We also realized that we couldn't walk alone in the world as well as we have to hold God's hand. He will show our way and He will guide us. We used to look for God when we get into trouble. It would be very hard to face the burdens without God because sometimes, we forgot His promises which He had already articulated in the Bible.

HOW DO WE KNOW THAT GOD WON'T ABANDON US?
We are going to find out in Psalms 23.

Psalm 23
A psalm of David.

1 The LORD is my shepherd, I lack nothing.
2 He makes me lie down in green pastures,
he leads me beside quiet waters,
3 he refreshes my soul.
He guides me along the right paths
for his name’s sake.
4 Even though I walk
through the darkest valley,[a]
I will fear no evil,
for you are with me;
your rod and your staff,
they comfort me.

5 You prepare a table before me
in the presence of my enemies.
You anoint my head with oil;
my cup overflows.
6 Surely your goodness and love will follow me
all the days of my life,
and I will dwell in the house of the LORD
forever.


Why does this scripture so popular?
We definitely want to be loved and cared for by significant others. Most of us believe that there is a God out there. The good news of Psalm 23 is that God really cares about each of us in a way beyond our wildest imagining. That is the meaning of God's Love and it shows that we are safe under His arms. All of this means that God personally cares for us. No matter what may come, and how many problems we face, that scripture express that God is there for us, and will never give up on us. It means, God loves you.

God not only loves us but also protects us.

This scripture is for us and we could find out the protection of the Lord.
Psalm 91

 ¹ Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High
   will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.^[a]
2 I will say of the LORD, “He is my refuge and my fortress,
   my God, in whom I trust.”  ³ Surely he will save you
   from the fowler’s snare
   and from the deadly pestilence.
⁴ He will cover you with his feathers,
   and under his wings you will find refuge;
   his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.
⁵ You will not fear the terror of night,
   nor the arrow that flies by day,
⁶ nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness,
   nor the plague that destroys at midday.
⁷ A thousand may fall at your side,
   ten thousand at your right hand,
   but it will not come near you.
⁸ You will only observe with your eyes
   and see the punishment of the wicked.
 ⁹ If you say, “The LORD is my refuge,”
   and you make the Most High your dwelling,
¹⁰ no harm will overtake you,
   no disaster will come near your tent.
¹¹ For he will command his angels concerning you
   to guard you in all your ways;
¹² they will lift you up in their hands,
   so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.
¹³ You will tread on the lion and the cobra;
   you will trample the great lion and the serpent.
 ¹⁴ “Because he^[b] loves me,” says the LORD, “I will rescue him;
   I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name.
¹⁵ He will call on me, and I will answer him;
   I will be with him in trouble,
   I will deliver him and honor him.
¹⁶ With long life I will satisfy him
   and show him my salvation.”

How does God clarify Love?

Before we start to learn about Him, we need to know His Nature. In the Bible (NIV), we could see the scriptures. There are many passages in the Bible that show us God's natures.

-1 John 4:10

¹⁰ This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 

His love is so excited for us and incredible. He doesn't say, " I'll sacrifice my Son if you promise to love me" or " You have to love me because I sacrificed my son for all of you". Our God is Sacrificial. 

-Ephesians 2:4-5

⁴ But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, ⁵ made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. 

We can find a true love in Him. A true love only comes through a relationship with Him. Why does God give a privilege to us? He gave His only Son (who also willingly died for us).
Our God is Merciful. 

-Romans 8:35

³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 

-Romans 8:38-39

³⁸ For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,^[a] neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, ³⁹ neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. 

 God's love for us remain secure, even in the most extreme circumstances. God is great all the time. God Is Faithful And Powerful.

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How could we understand that God is Love?

 "Love" is a very common word we used to say and sometimes it was misused. These are many kinds of love such as parents' love, friends' love, husband and wife's love, lovers' love, and so on. Actually, love is abstract as well as very difficult to define. But, how could we know that love is there in the world? How could you feel it?
 For that question, we have answers and reasons. For that answers, we have to ask only one question to ourselves. Do we really need love? or Without love, could we survive? It is very difficult for us to survive without love. Because of this if we "fall out of love" in our family, how are we to fix it up? Because of these, the divorce rate is extremely high in today's society. We really need love. Our love is sometimes very conditional and mercurial. For that love only, people got married, people got fought for it and had conflict over it. If we stop loving one another, we no longer feel love for each other. Could we call that love?
 So, Shall we think about our parents' love? Though we are good or bad, they have no expectation from us and their love for us is not stopping. God's love is very similar to parents' love. I mean, very similar but not the same because God's Love is very hard to comprehend from the point of view of humans.
 God's Love is eternity and unconditional but how could we prove for it? Why does he love us? Are we lovable? or Could we make him feel happy? Actually, God's Love is very different from human love. Though we are sinners, He wants us to have a loving relationship with Him. His love is not based on feelings or emotions. We could see His nature in the Holy Bible.
 Anyhow, God really loves us because He is Love.


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