When we see God’s love as lacking or absent, our worship fades into nothing more than a type of formalism and routine.
Worship is something that comes from a heart that is filled with God’s Spirit and has been given the desire to do what is right and acceptable to God…to see His love and meditate on His name and to fear Him.
How do you respond to God’s word and His electing love? Would it be like this: “How have You loved me?” or “In what way have You loved me with all this pain I have?”
The burden (oracle) of the word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi (my messenger). (Malachi 1:1)
It is my burden over the next few weeks to share with you the things that the Lord has revealed to me. This verse, for any child of God, should be a comfort [...]
For what credit is it if, when you sin and are beaten for it, you endure? But if when you do good and suffer for it you endure, this is a gracious thing in the sight of God. For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving [...]
