A few years ago, when I first came to Howard Payne, there was a program that displayed a verse of the day at the DOS prompt, and waited for you to press a key to continue. The verses were not random but were from a table so the verse for each date in the calendar was the same year after year. That is July 20th always produced 1 John 3:1 and always in the King James Version. I rewrote the program in Visual Basic to make it more user friendly and for the rest of my time there it came up on every computer when you rebooted it or turned it on. I was always amazed at how the verses were so appropriate for the day that they appeared on. Today's verse is no exception.
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God...
I John 3:1
That love is a self sacrificing love that is completely unconditional. In Sunday school we recently looked at the letter to the church at Ephesus in Revelation 2. This was a church that had lost or forgotten it's first love. That first love was that which God had bestowed on them when they believed. They had received it but had failed to pass it on. The will of God, given to us in the great commission is that we share that love with all we meet, how are we doing?
A Call to the Deep
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