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Love Notes for YouThe Bible: a love letter from God
Published October 30, 2023

Love Notes for You

God has written a letter to you.

The Bible isn’t just a storybook about God, the people of Israel, and a man named Jesus. It is a love letter from God to you.

When Jesus walked on earth He said, “As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you. Now remain in my love.” (John 15:9) John wrote it that the crux of the gospel message is a love note.

“But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” (Romans 5:8)

I encourage you to open your Bible today and look for evidence of God’s all-consuming love for you, like these verses from Romans:

“For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 8:38, 39)

What are some of your favorite “love notes” from God? Do you live in a way that shows that you believe God loves you with an everlasting love?

Loving Heavenly Father, thank you that You have left me little notes to remind me of how much You love me. Help me to keep reading Your Word so that I will see them and remember.

Thought: Ask God to give you an opportunity to show His love to someone in your world today. When you feel God prompting you, act on it.

by Suzanne Benner
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Further Reading

•  Letter of Introduction a Devotional by Sherry Yarger

• Receiving God’s Love – A Devotional by Kyle Norman

• God Knows Me and He Loves Me – A Devotional by Helen Lescheid

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Feeding on the Word
Published October 11, 2023

Feeding on the Word

“Your words were found, and I ate them, And Your word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart; For I am called by Your name, O Lord God of hosts..”  Jeremiah 15:16

When I first became aware of these precious words through a Bible memory program, I devoured them immediately. As Matthew Henry says, “[I] received them entirely, conversed with them intimately; they were welcome to me, as food to one that is hungry; I entertained them, digested them. God’s Word truly was the joy and rejoicing of my heart. What could bring more joy than to know that ‘I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.”

In looking at the context around this verse, however, I was almost shocked to see it from an entirely different perspective. Judah was in a bad way, having repeatedly turned her back on God and His prophet, Jeremiah. They were suffering a drought which should have been a warning to them to turn from their sin. Instead of heeding the warning, however, they listened to the smooth, ear tickling words of false prophets while persecuting and tormenting Jeremiah. Poor Jeremiah “sat alone.” (verse 17) and fretted about the people’s stubbornness and his own lack of success among them.  I can almost hear him saying, “But Lord, after I have been so faithful to You, how can You allow them to treat me so harshly?”  And yet, when he did turn again to God’s Word, he found the “joy and rejoicing” of his heart.  God needed to correct some of his wrong thinking and expression before he would be fit to utter His “precious words.” again (verse 19).

How thankful we should be for God’s long suffering toward us and for the deep comfort and joy His Word brings, no matter what our situation may be. Warren Wiersbe has written: “but God encouraged him [Jeremiah] as he fed on the Word. God may not take away the pain in your heart, but He is there with His comfort.”

by Violet Tse
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Further Reading

• Where to Start Reading the Bible

• Enjoying God’s Word – by Brigitte Straub

• Listening by Rod Marshall

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