There are many great Bible studies that we can learn from and use to grow closer to Jehovah. We can study on our own and supplement with other resources from sources we validate as genuine followers of Christ. Typically we expect to finish a Bible study when we begin it. After conducting quite a few, I found one I could not finish. I was searching for all the places where the Bible references love so that I would study and compare and reflect on God’s love for us, the love He calls us to have for one another and for Him. After quite some time I realized there seemed to be limitless references to love throughout scripture. I actually started to feel disappointed that it would be so hard to finish.
It was then that God showed me I was missing the point. As I contemplated if and how I would finish studying all application of “love” in scripture, the Spirit spoke to me. That was the point. God’s love is so boundless that even just to study it and try to understand it reveals to us how great His love is for us. I continue to study God’s love, but now I do so in more manageable increments… I still have not run out of scripture to study about God’s love. When I get through it all, I can study it again and learn even more. Our heavenly Father is truly wonderful!
1See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called children of God; and such we are.
7Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love. 9By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him. 10In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12No one has seen God at any time; if we love one another, God abides in us, and His love is perfected in us. 13By this we know that we abide in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. 14We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.
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I am so thankful for Gods love for me! He has shown His love for me by giving me the desires of my heart as I trust in Him in such meaningful personal ways. It is truly amazing to reflect on His hand on my life and how He has given me very specific relationships with people that have helped me grow closer to Him and have been a tremendous blessing in my life. I am so thankful for my precious family that I was not sure I would ever have but was such a strong desire from childhood. He also has allowed me to have a great time to be very close to my twin sister to homeschool together and pray together and spend so much time together.
Even when I have difficult trials in my life, He shows love by always being there to speak to me and help me overcome through faith in Him and encouragement through scripture.
Praise God!!