
Love Your Creator
Take great care, however, to love the Lord,
your God. (Joshua 23:11)
With all your strength, love your Creator,
forsake not his ministers. (Sirach 7:30)
For you did not receive a spirit of
slavery
to fall back into fear, but you received
a spirit of adoption, through which
we cry,
"Abba, Father!" (Romans 8:15)
Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God,
the
Lord alone! Therefore, you shall love
the
Lord, your God, with all your heart,
and
with all your soul, and with all your
strength.
Take to heart these words which I enjoin
on you today. (Deuteronomy 6:4-6)
Do not grieve the holy Spirit of God,
with
which you were sealed. (Ephesians 4:30)
Everyone who believes that Jesus is
the Christ
is begotten by God, and everyone who
loves
the Father also loves the One begotten
by
Him. (1 John 5:1)
For the love of God is this, that we
keep
His commandments. And His commandments
are
not burdensome, for whoever is begotten
by
God conquers the world. (1 John 5:3-4)
Do you love Me? (John 21:17)
If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. (John 14:15)
Whoever has My commandments and observes
them is the one who loves Me. And whoever
loves Me will be loved by My Father,
and
I will love him and reveal Myself to
him.
(John 14:21)
Whoever loves Me will keep My word,
and My
Father will love him, and We will come
to
him and make Our dwelling with him. (John 14:24)
I love you, Lord, my strength, Lord,
my rock,
my fortress, my deliverer, my God,
my rock
of refuge, my shield, my saving horn,
my
stronghold! Praised be the Lord, I
exclaim!
(Psalm 18:2-4)
May the Lord direct your hearts to
the love
of God and to the endurance of Christ. (2 Thessalonians 3:5)
(c) Paul Buis, 2005
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