I never asked you to earn me. I want only that you should need me. Your path is not one of merit. Bring the recurring desires of your heart to me, every time they emerge. They cannot shock me, for I willed them! Bring me your confusion, your fear, your craving, your anxiety, your inability to love, your hesitation to serve, your jealousy, all the deficiencies that defy me. ~God

The verses for this week are:
Isaiah 50:10
Matthew 7:13-14
and the passage for this month is
2 Corinthians 4

So get into God's Word and start memorizing!

This Will Be An Everlasting Love!!!

I'm sure all of you have heard the song "This will be" sung by Natalie Cole. Well, I was listening to it this morning and realized that the lyrics could apply to the love God has for us. It's really cool!

This will be an everlasting love

This will be the one I've waited for

This will be the first time anyone has loved me

I'm so glad you found me in time

And I'm so glad that you've rectified my mind

This will be an everlasting love for me

...(and goes on to say)

You've brought a lot of sunshine into my life

You've filled me with happiness I never knew

You gave me more joy than I ever dreamed of

And no one, no one can take the place of you

...(and then)

So long as I'm living, true love I'll be giving

To you I'll be serving, 'cause you're so deserving

Hey, you're so deserving, you're so deserving

...

Love, Love, Love, Love, Love, Love

Love, Love, Love, Love

Love, Love, Love, Love, Love

Love, Love, Love

From now on

From now on

From now on

Everlasting means, perpetual or enduring through all time; having infinite duration; valid or existing at all times. Isaiah 35:10 says "Those who have been ransomed by the Lord will return. They will enter Jerusalem singing, crowned with EVERLASTING joy. Sorrow and mourning will disappear, and they will be filled with joy and gladness." Jeremiah 31:3 "Long ago the Lord said to Israel: I have loved you, my people, with an EVERLASTING LOVE. With UNFAILING LOVE I have drawn you to myself." Psalm 100:5 says "For the Lord is good. His UNFAILING LOVE CONTINUES FOREVER, and His faithfulness continues to each generation." 2 Corinthians 13: 4-8, 13 "Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. (Now tell me, can you find that love - true, everlasting love- anywhere else but in God?) Three things will last FOREVER - faith, hope, and love - and the GREATEST OF THESE IS LOVE."

God loves us so much! He should be your one and only, and because He has given you the world, His one and only son, His everlasting, eternal, forever and always love, and so much more; you should praise Him and love Him all the time. I encourage you to Live and Breathe God. His Love is EVERLASTING! You can't find love as great and as lasting as his in anything or anyone else.

Some side points, thought, recommendations, and things to ponder:

-We should try and express this love that God has shown to us to everyone we know, and even those we don't. Even to our enemies. We should pour out this love that God fills us with into the world so that people will see God through us.

-Recommended book: "Crazy Love" by Francis Chan

-We should strive to love the Lord like he loves us.