Monday 25th June 2007 Be Encouraged!

The end of the book for the moment. No, I am not going to comment about this book today. I will leave that for another time. I just make one comment. Chapter 32 marks the end of God's statement to the nations who got stuck into Israel.
I am on late shift today. This gives me all day with my family. Michele wanted a book reading. Did that. Cathy needed a shitty nappy changed, plus a hand sucking competition. Did that. The oven needed cleaning. I started that. I will finish it tomorrow while Michele is at preschool and Mrs Manager is at KYB. That's the plan anyway. All subject to change without notice. I get home from work at about 0130 in the morning. Up at 0800 to get Michele off to school and all that. Late shift again tomorrow though not as late as today.
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This daily encouragement comes from 'The Word for Today' devotional available free from UCB Australia (www.ucb.com.au)

22 June 2007 - God loves you - He really does!

HOW GREAT IS THE LOVE THE FATHER HAS LAVISHED ON US. (1 JOHN 3:1 NIV)

Nothing could make God love you more than He does right now: not greater achievement, greater beauty, greater recognition; not even greater Spirituality. And nothing could make Him love you less: not your character flaws, your past failures and regrets. The irony is, we spend our lives trying to earn a love that can only be received by faith when we acknowledge that within us there's an emptiness only God can fill. And He will. But the truth is, learning to live in the love of God is the challenge of a lifetime.
Many of us grew up with parents who withheld their love as an expression of their disapproval. And we think God does that too. But He doesn't. "How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are" (1 Jn 3:1 NIV).
CS Lewis wrote: 'God, who needs nothing, loving into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that He may love and perfect them. God did not make us because He was bored, lonely, or had run out of things to do. He created us to be the objects of His love! Sometimes our actions make us unlovely, but we are never unloved. And because God loves us - we have value. And nobody can take that value away. God's love revealed at Calvary fastens itself onto flawed creatures like us, and for reasons none of us can ever quite figure out, makes us precious and valued beyond calculation. This is love beyond reason. And this is the love with which God loves us.
'Soulfood Bible Readings - Hosea 1-5, Matt 21:1-17, Ps 144:9-15, Pr 14:5-8
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We get these every day. Some are OK, others are really encouraging. This is up there with the best.