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April 1, 2011 by hayleyneal 0 Comments

 

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Thought of the week… What the world needs now is love!

March 29, 2011 by hayleyneal 0 Comments

A true love and esteem of God will dispose the heart to acknowledge God’s right to govern and that he is worthy of it; and so will dispose it to submit.

Love to God will dispose to walk humbly with God.

For he that love God will be disposed to acknowledge the distance there is between God and him.

It will be agreeable to him who loves God to exalt him and set him on high above all, and to lie low before him.

A true Christian delights to have God exalted in his abasement, because he loves God.

He is willing to own that God is worthy of this; and it is with delight that he casts himself in the dust before God, because he loves God.

So a due consideration of the nature of love will show that it will dispose men to all duties towards their neighbours If men have a hearty love to their neighbours it will dispose them to all acts of justice towards them.

Men are not disposed to wrong those whom they truly love. Real love and friendship will dispose persons to give others their due. romans 13:10 “Love worketh no ill to his neighbour.”

- Jonathan Edwards ‘Sermon One: Love the Sum of All Virtue”

Edwards goes on to say that love will dispose us to many more things that will be for good of our neighbours.
Love will dispose us to:

  • truth towards neighbours (not lies or deceit)
  • walk humbly among men to honor one another (not pride or arrogance)
  • contentment in the station in which God hat set him. (not coveting)
  • meekness and gentleness in their carriage towards neighbours (not violence or hatred)
  • a sweet disposition and affection of the soul (not bitterness)
  • peaceableness (not broils and quarrels)
  • forgive injuries received from their neighbours (not harbouring grudges)
  • acts of mercy toward neighbours who are under any affliction or calamity (not laughing at their misfortunes)
  • give to the poor and bear with one another’s burdens, to weep with those that weep and rejoice with those that rejoice.

I want to love more.

Not only because Jesus is worthy of being exalted in my love towards him, but also in my love towards others.

Sounds like heaven.

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Thought of the week… Joy Unspeakable

March 6, 2011 by hayleyneal 0 Comments

And all this in a garden of love, the Paradise of God, where everything has a cast of holy love, and everything conspires to promote and stir up love and nothing to interrupt its exercises; everything is fitted by an all-wise God for the enjoyment of love under the greatest advantages. And all this shall be without any fading of the beauty of the objects believed, or any decaying of love in the lover, and any satiety in the faculty which enjoys love.

O! what tranquillity may we conclude there is in such a world as this! Who can express the sweetness of this peace? What a calm is this, what a heaven of rest is here to arrive at after persons have gone through a world of storms and tempests, a world of pride and selfishness and envy, and malice, and scorn, and contempt and contention and war?… What joy may we conclude springs up in the hearts of the saints after they have passed wearisome pilgrimage to be brought to such a paradise?

Here is joy unspeakable indeed; here is humble, holy, divine joy in its perfection.

- Jonathan Edwards

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Thought of the week

February 21, 2011 by hayleyneal 0 Comments

Thus it is that we may patiently pass through this life with its misery, hunger, cold, contempt, reproaches, and other troubles – content with this one thing: that our King will never leave us destitute, but will provide for our needs until, our warfare ended, we are called to triumph. Such is the nature of his rule, that he shares with us all that he has received from the Father. Now he arms and equips us with his power, adorns us with his beauty and magnificence, enriches us with his wealth.

These benefits, then, give us the most fruitful occasion to glory, and also provide us with confidence to struggle fearlessly against the devil, sin, and death. Finally, clothed with his righteousness, we can valiantly rise above all the world’s reproaches; and just as he himself freely lavishes his gifts upon us, so may we, in return, bring forth fruit to his glory.

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