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Psalm 92

Of David.

It is good to praise the LORD,
to sing hymns to Your name, O Most High,

To proclaim Your steadfast love at daybreak,
Your faithfulness each night

With a ten-stringed harp,
with voice and lyre together.

You have gladdened me by Your deeds, O LORD;
I shout for joy at Your handiwork.

How great are Your works, O LORD,
how very subtle Or “profound.” Your designs!

A brutish man cannot know,
a fool cannot understand this:

though the wicked sprout like grass,
though all evildoers blossom,
it is only that they may be destroyed forever.

But You are exalted, O LORD, for all time.
Surely, Your enemies, O LORD,
surely, Your enemies perish;
all evildoers are scattered.

You raise my horn high like that of a wild ox;
I am soaked in freshening oil.

I shall see the defeat of my watchful foes,
hear of the downfall of the wicked who beset me.

The righteous bloom like a date-palm;
they thrive like a cedar in Lebanon;

planted in the house of the LORD,
they flourish in the courts of our God.

In old age they still produce fruit;
they are full of sap and freshness,

attesting that the LORD is upright,
my rock, in whom there is no wrong.

















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9/11/2016

Ahav, Agape, How do you define God's Love?

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​When Moses was speaking in Deuteronomy he gave the one commandment that covers all ten and the subsidiary statutes. It is recorded for us today as Deut. 6:5.
“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all of your soul and with all of your might”
   What is Moses saying when He is telling the Hebrews that this is what God commands. This seems impossible to do. Giving all your heart, mind, and soul to an entity we cannot even physically see, touch, or feel seems like a strange request but it really isn’t when you look at what the actual word used in Scripture means. The Hebrew word used in this verse is ahav. At its most basic translation means fidelity. So what does this boil down to? Loyalty. We always hear that God has the “agape” love for us which He does but He commands us to have not just the extreme devotion of agape but the loyalty of ahav . This is the strongest, most endearing type of love there is. When a man and woman join together in the holy ordnance of marriage, they are commanded by God to have all the definitions and characteristics, and values that define love rolled into one. This does not truly echo the recent human nature saying, “Love is Love” because that is not clearly defined to the common non God fearing and they do not understand the ramifications of what they are trying to say.
   In Corinthians 13 where Paul talks of love, he is talking about God’s love for us and how we should echo it without holding any of it back. Nowhere does it equate love with lustful sexually immoral desires of humankind. He is simply stating the solid truth about what true love is which is total devotion to God and His creation.
   God’s Love: uninhibited, requited, patient, kind, binding, selfless, honorable, trusting, unfailing, honest, abhors evil intent, forgiving, not given into pride or boastfulness and NOT blind. That is the definition breakdown of the characteristics of love that this generation needs to comprehend.
   If we are to love our neighbor’s as ourselves we need to reach deep and check if we have God’s love in us. Without God’s love and acting on our own human instincts we will fail. With God’s Love and sharing His (not ours) loving kindness towards others we will succeed.     

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