Love and Faith

These are rewarding pleasures that are easily ignored.
Yet, Faith can be harder to break than steel..
And Love.... stronger than war

Without one or the other, NO MAN CAN STAND
Because these two attributes go HAND and HAND

Both require much work, yet can be easily obtained
Love is Freedom
But sometimes require pain

Faith is Strength
Yet, is shown in weakness

Love is Forgiving and Kind
Faith is Invisible and hard to find
Yet both can be found
If you leave the past behind
and search
INSIDE!

But even the Inside can be an adventurous maze
with many paths leading off to deadly ways.
So how can I find Love and Faith Inside
If I don't know myself...

Who am I?

Picked up the Bible and flipped through the pages
of words of wisdom and truth
that have been here for ages

And now I see that the inside of me
is a maze that was created and can only be figured
out by G.O.D.

His guiding light illuminated my night
and shined a bright light on the ONE path
I couldn't see...

The path that contained His Faith and Love

For ME!....

I followed him down this path,
I gathered His bread crumbs
and drank of His wine out of mountainous cups

And out of all of that,I found the Love and Faith
But It wasn't inside of me
It was inside of

JESUS!

God Bless You Family

Thanks Kalan for your post!

God is Love

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God is Love: How does God Define Love?
The Bible tells us that "God is Love" (1 John 4:8). But how can we even begin to understand that truth? There are many passages in the Bible that give us God's definition of love. The most well known verse is John 3:16, "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." So one way God defines love is in the act of giving. However, what God gave (or should we say, "who" God gave) was not a mere gift-wrapped present; God sacrificed His only Son so that we, who put our faith in His Son, will not spend eternity separated from Him. This is an amazing love, because we are the ones who choose to reject God, yet it's God who mends the separation through His intense personal sacrifice, and all we have to do is accept His gift.

Another great verse about God's love is found in Romans 5:8, "But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." In this verse and in John 3:16, we find no conditions placed on God's love for us. God doesn't say, "as soon as you clean up your act, I'll love you; " nor does He say, "I'll sacrifice my Son if you promise to love Me." In fact, in Romans 5:8, we find just the opposite. God wants us to know that His love is unconditional, so He sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to die for us while we were still unlovable sinners. We didn't have to get clean, and we didn't have to make any promises to God before we could experience His love. His love for us has always existed, and because of that, He did all the giving and sacrificing long before we were even aware that we needed His love.
http://www.allaboutgod.com/god-is-love.htm


Faith,


So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.


- 1769 Oxford King James Bible "



Word of God,

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

Blessings in Jesus,

Valerie