This is What God is Like God is love. Read this:1 Corinthians 13:4–8 (NKJV)4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity,…
Peace with God Romans 5:1 “Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.” (CSB) 2 Corinthians 5:17 tells us that “if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation” (CSB) When we become a new creation, according to 2 Peter 1:4, we get to…
True Love Scripture tells us not merely that God loves, but that He is love. Let’s think through what that statement means. Anselm of Canterbury (1033—1109), a Benedictine monk, theologian, and philosopher wrote that “God is that than which there can be nothing greater.” We might define perfection as that state than which there can…
The Saint Jesus Loves Have you ever noticed that John constantly refers to himself as “the disciple Jesus loved”? We would do well to do the same. When we truly know God’s great love for us, it results in our outward behavior becoming increasingly conformed to our inner state of being in Christ,it results in…
And there you have it. The impossible way that you can be like God.
