consider one another to provoke each other to love and to good works, as workers together with Him,
also that you would not receive the grace of God in vain, giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry would not be blamed, but in all things that we would approve ourselves as the ministers of God: in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; (by pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Spirit, by love unfeigned); by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, by honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true; as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
"I have heard you in an accepted time, and in the day of salvation have I succoured you: behold, NOW is the accepted time; behold, NOW is the day of salvation!"
the acorn of hope Feb 7
If God would bring beauty from ashes,
we must first let it burn...
The love of Christ compels us, for in Him we live and move and have our being.
We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is fit, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other abounds; Therefore, as you abound in everything: in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, make sure that you abound in this grace also. So at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality. If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink: for in so doing you will heap coals of fire on his head. We know both how to be abased and how to abound: every where and in all things we are instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need... But my God will supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
Cast your burden on the Lord, and He will sustain you; He will never let the righteous be moved. Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for them who love Him.
Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned. It is charity by pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Spirit, by love unfeigned.
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posted Apr 8