Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, 6who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped,7but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Phil. 2: 5-8
It's nice to have a rainy day and catch up on a bit of reading. My niece volunteered with Urban Promise for a year before heading back to school. We will continue to pray for her and the kids she had to leave.Read her farewell here
Aren't you glad as we pray God can send people to answer and minister to needs we leave with Him!?
The whole world over where ever we are
To God there is no near or far
He loves us all, no one exempt
Regardless of mankind's contempt
He loves us all, disdainful glares
Cannot rebuff what God declares No one escapes His tender view 'Lord, teach us how to love like you'
Please also pray for my friend's step-dad going in for very serious surgery tomorrow. ( Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. Ps.139:16)
1. The love of God is greater far Than tongue or pen can ever tell;
It goes beyond the highest star, And reaches to the lowest hell;
The guilty pair, bowed down with care, God gave His Son to win;
His erring child He reconciled, And pardoned from his sin. *
Refrain: Oh, love of God, how rich and pure! How measureless
and strong! It shall forevermore endure— The saints' and angels'
song.
2. When hoary time shall pass away, And earthly thrones
and kingdoms fall, When men who here refuse to pray, On rocks
and hills and mountains call, God's love so sure, shall still
endure, All measureless and strong; Redeeming grace to Adam's
race— The saints' and angels' song.
3. Could we with ink the
ocean fill, And were the skies of parchment made, Were every
stalk on earth a quill, And every man a scribe by trade; To
write the love of God above Would drain the ocean dry; Nor could
the scroll contain the whole, Though stretched from sky to sky.
Verse
3 was penciled on the wall of a narrow room in an insane asylum by a
man said to have been demented. The profound lines were discovered when
they laid him in his coffin.
In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. John 4:10
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Rom.5:8
The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but
is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all
should reach repentance. 2 Pet.3:9
