Devotionals on Loving

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• Loving Obedience God is seeking a man; a corporate body; a race; a peculiar people – a new creation. God is seeking a man after His own heart..
• – but from the get-go, man failed the simple test of loving obedience to his Creator..
• so Christ was sent to be that Man after God’s own heart – walking in loving obedience.
• His life was lived in spirit and truth – submitted to the Father, in loving obedience.
• But a man that entirely reflects God’s moral nature – to God’s own satisfaction. A corporate man after God’s own heart – walking in loving obedience… A body, communicating His perfect character to a dying world in sin. And the goal of that corporate body is, “Christ in you - the hope of glory.”

• Loving Words As she stood in anguish and pain, gazing at her dying son, a sword indeed pierced through her own aching soul, leaving her heart bloodied and bruised, and probably bereft of hope.  Despite the sins of all humanity that weighed so heavily upon the shoulders of our blessed Lord; despite the bitter pain, affliction and anguish He bore, for your transgressions and for mine, He saw His own dear mother, in her deep and gaping grief, and His own breaking heart of compassion reached out, in love, to her.

• How can He be a loving God if He hears not my anguished cry?

• That must not be a cause but a result. 'The cause, the secret, the spring of everything is Myself, and sometimes you will just have to cease straining, and rest back in Me, in loving trust.

• Loving Me and trusting Me is the key.
• Trusting love and loving trust – is what I seek.
• And bind hope tightly to loving trust..

• It is His loving grace that truly refreshes the heart.

• It is by His revelation through the Word that we behold spiritual realities; it is by His loving discipline that we enter into those realities.

• Shun (keep clear away from, avoid by flight if need be) any sort of idolatry (of loving or venerating anything more than God). (1 Corinthians 10:14 AMP)

• It’s one whose loving devotion and wrapped attention is focused on serving another.

• There are two hearts that we learn in the process of suffering: our own sinful heart, and our Father's loving heart.

• Such a man also has first-hand knowledge of the loving care of the Chief Shepherd, and His ability to heal one who has come humbly to trust in Him and Him alone. Therefore, he does not easily despair of others, but looks beyond sinfulness, wilfulness, and stupidity, to the might of unchanging love.

• God’s loving-kindness and unchangeable holiness – embraced at Calvary’s cross.

• Comfort and Care Exhortation and encouragement is a beautiful aspect of our Christian life. Peter is the apostle that encourages us to care for one another, in Christ. Peter tells us: above all, keep loving one another earnestly, for love covers a multitude of sins. 1Peter 4:8.  We should be concerned for the well-being of fellow believers in many ways.

• I need to trust that God says what He means and I need to thank Him for His blessed gift and rejoice in His loving forgiveness – or I live my life enchained and entrapped behind the prison door of unbelief.

• Loving Aright If we truly love God rightly, then we will love others aright, but if we do not love God rightly, then we can never love others aright.

• the cross dealt with forgiveness of sin – but confession restores communion. When we discover we are out of fellowship with God we need to confess our sins. When we realise we’ve sinned we need to go straight to the throne of grace and confess – and when we do we are restored into loving fellowship with our heavenly Father.

• He is the all-powerful, all-knowing, all-loving God, andyet He crept into the womb of a virgin.

• Golden Gate Forgiveness opens the golden gate to God’s loving fellowship in your life.

• A Quiet Spirit And He breaks our legs as did the kindly shepherd to the little straying lamb, so that He Himself can find us and gather us up in His loving arms:  and carry us on His shoulders.

• STUDY - God, All I Need Bless the Lord O my soul… and forget not all his benefits. Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; Who healeth all thy diseases; Who redeemeth my life. Who crowns thee with loving-kindness and tender mercies; Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; Who renews my youth like the eagles.Psalm 103:2

• Your sins, like grains of sand, are washed in the vast ocean of His loving absolution.

• I have not felt His loving arms around me, and yet I love Him. I have no physical evidences of His being, and yet I love Him.

• Child Training Loving the Lord with every fibre of our being is not an option but His clear command, for God knows that all that makes for life and peace, wholeness and health is in Him.

• And today that Man is sitting on the throne of the almighty God – loving you.

• We are the creative and skilful product of His sweet and loving intention towards us and His grace enlightens our mind, strengthens the will, and rejoices our inner being.

• But as for the apostle, despite such a fall, God’s grace is never irrecoverable – for His tender kindness and loving-mercies toward us are new every morning.

• Loving-Kindness He desires to care for us.

• Let us listen to His voice in those small decisions that we are so apt to take;decisions we make without seeking His skilful, loving guidance -decisions we are prone to take without listening to His gentle promptings.

• We may often disappoint Him, we may often fail Him, we may often grieve His heart, but He goes on loving us.

• He never pushed us, but drew us in loving kindness - and He would treat others likewise, through us.

• His loving, skilful plan is at best hidden from your eyes, as you view the unscrolling of His perfect plan through a glass, darkly.
• You do not see the immediate revelation of His thoughts – its day by day unfolding which is so often tinged with confusion and pain, as step by step He draws you closer into His loving embrace.
• Ahh, but know this, beloved... you are sure of His love and He knows you by name; His loving purpose He is refining in you;  step by step He is working His skill, though an agonising process in you and little by little He is taking you deeper, deeper – deeper into Himself.
• Psalm 40:5 So you can commit yourself into His loving plan.
• Rest your soul on the loving plans He has for you, they are plans for good and not for evil,

• He placed His hand on her head, giving a precious look of loving approval..

• God’s Forgiveness God is gracious and merciful and full of tender, loving-kindness.
• It was only the Tender-Mercy and loving-kindness of God that reached down, to one such as I..
• Grace of God It was only His tender-mercy and loving-kindness Who conceived the cross – the cross to which we can flee to as a city of refuge and a citadel of shelter.
• I thank God for His loving-kindness, His forbearance, and His gentleness for me.

• Almighty or All-Matey Whatever happened to the worship of the true and living God Almighty? What has replaced the awe and wonder of the all-powerful, omnipotent Creator? What has been exchanged for the preeminent, omniscient, Lord of heaven and earth? What is this ‘God All-Matey‘ that has crept into the vision of so many today? He is indeed our Saviour and Shepherd; our Friend and Bridegroom, but His loving-kindness has been converted into indulgence. His powerful strength has been metamorphosed into soppy weakness.

• Loving Obedience Love was the motivating factor behind the Lord’s obedience to the Father.
• Loving Obedience As deity Christ could have acted independently of God, but He chose submission.
• Had Christ acted independently of God He could never have secured our salvation, but in loving obedience to the Father and in gracious love for us He became obedient, for being found in human form, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

• How to be merciful, compassionate, forgiving, loving, and good?

• An attitude that just loves on the Lord with all our being…  loving to the length and breadth and height and depth of all we are – combined with a revised view of our self – our foolish self and self-importance.
• Loving the Lord There is no possible way to intercede effectively without just loving the Lord.
• Loving on the Lord with ALL your Heart.
• Loving on the Lord with ALL your Soul.
• Loving on the Lord with ALL your Mind.
• Loving on the Lord with ALL your BEING.
• Just loving on Jesus….

• Who can fathom the depths of the richness of the imaginations of His loving thoughts, to us.

• Then make me truly happy by agreeing wholeheartedly with each other, loving one another, and working together with one mind and purpose. (Philippians 2:1,2 NLT)

• God’s Purpose The power behind loving; obedient; thanksgiving, watchful; thankful; trusting prayer, is a heart that has learned in measure, and is continuing to learn to the full, that no matter what circumstances or trial we face, all things work together for good… and that means God’s good.
• But it’s a matter of obediently trusting God in all things, and just loving to do His will, for His will is best – even better than yours or mine!!
• Let us continue in loving, obedient, unceasing, persevering, grateful prayer, as we wait to hear His call to His own to His church to come up here.

• He delights to take occasion from our needs, our woes and weaknesses, to express and illustrate His tender care and loving-kindness, in a thousand ways. -C.H.M.

• Psa.139:16. No born-again believer need ever fear rejection, for we are accepted in the Beloved Eph.1:6. Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love – with loving-kindness I have drawn you.

• with God as a loving Father. The trauma and pain of life has caused many to colour their opinions of God, and failure of trusted loved ones – have built up distrust of His Word of Truth.
• Attributes of God He alone is Divinely Omniscient, Divinely Omnipotent and He alone is Divinely Omnipresent. He alone is Faithful and Just and Holy and He alone is Gracious and Good and True and Loving – and He chose You to be His bride, before the foundation of the world…

• It means living, weeping, suffering, loving with infinite patience, infinite tenderness, unwearying love for every member of the Body of Christ.

• I will praise Your name for Your loving-kindness and Your truth, for You have magnified Your word above Your name.

• His loving-kindness endures through all generations. Our ‘Good God’ is unfailingly kind, cordial, benevolent, generous and tender-hearted, yet this ‘Good God’ also becomes a blasphemy blare from mankind’s profane choir.

• Such a man also has a firsthand knowledge of the loving care of the Chief Shepherd, and His ability to heal one who has come humbly to trust Him and Him alone.

• HASAH – In Psalm 36 we find David lifting up his voice in praise: how excellent is thy loving-kindness, O God!

• This was the tender, loving communication from our just Judge and merciful God.

• so does the lowly, loving, patient heart of the believer that is pure in heart remains chaste and unspotted in a fallen world of sin and corruption.

• He redeemed us from the pit of hell and has showered us with loving-kindness.

• Paul points out that a similar demise in loving-kindness will pervade Christendom..

• All that we do and all that we are is to be in loving remembrance of Jesus.

• I have loved you with an everlasting love: with loving- kindness have I drawn you.

• God’s Pity Yet He pities our infirmities, and His loving kindness and great mercies are new every morning.
• He ordains the biting wind of criticism to deeply wound us – the east wind of indifference to cut us to the quick, in order to quicken our sympathy toward others – in order to mature in us His tender mercy and loving-kindnesses.

• is the gift of His Beloved Son in Whom He is well pleased – so that we can be made adoptive sons, whom He also loves and loves so dearly! If so great a gift is forthcoming from the Father, He will not withhold the smaller gifts that are needed for our daily survival. Ours is not to worry, but to trust in His loving provision. His is to carry out His never-failing promises and His vow to you.

• that faith without love is really very ineffective. Thirdly, every promise in Revelation 2 and 3 brings you back to loving Jesus. Fourth, every crown we can gain has its roots in love. Fifth – there is nothing we can do of ourselves. All these are vital principles of the Christian life. All these truths are foundational Gospel facts.

• In Him is loving-kindness personified.

• Cup of Suffering To be pinched by poverty; to be maligned by loved ones; to be fettered by some disability. To be stripped bare of loving comfort; to stand alone in the shocks and quakes of life; to be overwhelmed by man's indifference to man and man's hatred of God.

• Tender Forgiveness He was praying His gracious words of tender forgiveness over you, and He was praying His precious words of loving pardon over me too.

• You can, therefore, be confident in every circumstance of life, however baffling, that it has been permitted in your own best interest by the wisest and most loving of fathers, who knows our load-limit' (1 Cor. 10:13). -O.S.

• Everything of sin results in misery, depression, hurt, pain and disappointment, while all that comes from God is good, pure, holy, just, gracious, and loving. This truth permeates the warp and weft of scripture… from beginning to end. “If our faith were but more simple, we would take Him at His Word..”

• The God of Israel God chose to reveal Himself more and more to Israel, so that they would know Him as the powerful Creator God and trust in Him, as their loving Lord and gentle Saviour.

• The life that emerges from death is administered by a loving, nail-pierced hand.

• God’s Love His loving thoughts are only towards me continuously.
• His loving care is seeking the very best for me.
• His loving correction is to draw me closer to His side.
• His loving work is only for my highest good.
• His loving presence is not merely for personal pleasure, but a unity of the spirit in the fellowship of love.
• Proof of God’s Love This loving God stopped short of nothing in saving us from our sins.
• This loving God stooped down to send us the Son of His Love..
• Our love to God is to be expressed in loving others Whom He loves – loving with His pure, sacrificial love.

• Reality Check The Bible reveals this God to be a gracious and loving Father..
• Loving Father God is revealed from Genesis to Revelation as a righteous King.
• God is, through Christ our Lord an approachable God – a loving Father.
• This sweet fellowship of loving trust and trusting love – for this is the Father-heart of God.

• Exemplary Grace His grace towards those that were poor and despised was exemplary and His loving involvement with the debased of society became a reason for some increasing hostility. He was gentle as a dove, and wise as a serpent – yet always spoke the truth in love.

• As we read through Scripture, we discover one here and we find another there… But in the fulness of time God sent His only Son in the form of man, in Whom would dwell all the godly attributes of Deity bodily – for He is the ultimate Man of faith and virtue, the perfect Man of prayer and praise, the godly Man of wisdom and worship, the loving Man of obedience and humility, the gracious Man so beloved of the Father, Who was chosen to be our Saviour for He is the true Man after God’s own heart.

• He also reminds us of our future blessed hope and the expected return of our Lord – and it is all connected with the grace of our wonderful, loving, gracious God.

• Our obligation to be punished for our sin, was removed by Christ, and we have a new obligation to loving obedience and lifelong service: “for He who is called by the Lord as a slave, is the Lord’s free man.

• The Lord Jesus loves us too much to allow us to go on loving ourselves.

• Thinking like Him; loving as He loved and bearing fruit through Him.

• Devoted Fidelity Oh, what shining examples of loving devotional and devoted fidelity.
• Loving devotion and devoted fidelity was demonstrated by these grieving women.
• Following a night of spice preparation and a dark journey in the misty morning, the grieving, loving hearts came to Him..
• Hope of Faith Bring Him the very finest and richest offering of loving trust and trusting love..
• gazing on the bloodied, beaten body of the Lord Jesus, after He gave up the ghost… WHO would have thought that His, was the greatest victory in the history of time and eternity?  Your victory, is as sure as His – as you stand and wait and watch in loving, trusting obedience, even as He requires each of us, so to do.

• Just think of the magnitude of this – the Almighty thus caring and thus loving.

• He draws us closer to Himself – until with Paul we can say… This one thing I do: this ONE thing... Focus on Jesus – loving Him with every fibre of your being.

• If we walk after the flesh, instead of after the Spirit, this may call for His loving rebuke and chastening (child training); but that in no way interferes with the precious truth of our continual acceptance and position in the risen Lord Jesus Christ, by whose one offering we have been perfected forever.

• The Father will not give you humility or patience or love as separate gifts of grace; He has given you the Lord Jesus, and if you simply trust Him to live out His life in you, He will be humble, patient, loving and everything else you need.

• It is possible to read books by the score, and to listen to the most faithful and blessed ministry for years on end, and yet never know the Lord Jesus as a present loving Object in heavenly glory.

• Keep trusting Him; keep loving Him; keep seeking Him and keep on waiting on Him

• Oh, how he needed their loving comfort, but how their attitude infected Job’s retort.

• Delaying Groom But what if the bridegroom were to delay his coming? What tantrums and tears would follow! What grief and distress would be displayed! Would she wait a minute, an hour, a week, a month for the one she loves so dearly? Would she wait a year with increased expectancy to fall into his loving embrace? Would disinterest seep into her longing to be with him? Would irritation remove the pain of being apart from him? Would she seek after others to woo her or be lulled into some narcotic sleep?

• Being Ready The warning to be ready should rejoice our hearts and be an encouragement, for God has outlined in His Word all we need to ensure we are ready and prepared – and loving Jesus and trusting His word is the most important step in being ready.

• I need to thank Him for His blessed gift and rejoice in His loving forgiveness, or I live life chained and entrapped behind a prison door of guilt, doubt, and disbelief.

• There is, however, much truth in this particular verse, and Eliphaz is reminding Job, and us, not to despise the chastening hand of the LORD which comes from the loving heart of our Heavenly Father: For He crushes but also binds up.

• It is a life that is lived in loving obedience and trusting dependence.

• Timothy was sent to find out how the believers there were getting along, to establish them in the faith, and give them spiritual support and godly encouragement.Paul rejoiced when Timothy returned with the joyful tidings that they were being established in the faith and well-grounded in the Word, despite the many difficulties and distresses they were facing: May the Lord cause you to increase in your faith and abound in your love for one another and for all people, was Paul's heartfelt prayer for them all, just as we also do for you.Paul continued in prayers and loving intercessions for the saints at Thessalonica, beseeching God the Father Himself and Jesus our Lord to direct and govern their ways.May we be like Paul, and remember to lift up our fellow Christian brothers and sisters in continuous and loving prayer and heartfelt intercessions.

• The triune Godhead worked in loving, corporate union to create the glorious heaven, the angelic hosts, the magnificent earth, and all the wonders that are therein.

• As we ponder the gentle kindness, faithful protection, and loving nurture we receive, moment by moment, should we not glory that we are known so intimately by the God of our salvation, the Saviour of our soul, and that He is with us every step of the way? 

• And from that love will flow a willing service and loving obedience, from a heart that loves the Lord with every part of his being.

• David knew His God was a covenant-keeping God and that the never-failing loving-kindness of the Lord was more to be desired than life itself.
• The truth that flows from this joyful psalm of David should be the experience and pronouncement of every regenerate soul, for without His life there is nothing other than death, without His loving-kindness there is only sadness and misery, and without His refreshment there is a dark dryness of the soul.

• However, in his distress hope was revived as Jeremiah looked away from himself to the Lord, and called to mind the loving-mercies, deep-compassion, and long-suffering of God for all His rebellious people.
• But only as we look away from ourselves, our problems, and our own limited perspectives, and call to mind the greater reality of His loving-mercies, deep-compassion, and long-suffering, do we recognise the steadfast love of the Lord which never ceases.

• He never goes back on His Word nor does He grow weary, and in His loving-kindness, He gives grace to the humble and renews the strength of those that wait upon Him, by faith.

• And loving the world and the things of this world is incompatible with our love for the Father and His desire for His children.
• John is writing to Christians and, like Paul, he is keenly aware that born again believers can be enticed away from a loving dependence upon the Father into a carnal reliance on the things of this world.

• Let us praise our covenant keeping God for all His loving-kindness and tender mercies to us and to all men, and let us live by faith in the Son of God Who loves us and gave Himself for us by taking upon Himself the judgement that we deserve so that His multi-coloured-grace can shine in our hearts throughout all eternity. 

• But God in His grace has designed this 7-year Tribulation Period to be the tool that will bring His errant nation, Israel, back into the loving arms of Jesus, the King of the Jews and God of Israel.

• Our good and loving God supplies all our needs, according to His riches in glory, through Christ Jesus our Saviour.

• His loving-kindness touches the life of every person and affects every nation and tribe and people and tongue.

• Loving others in the same way that Christ loved us, is the commandment that He gave to each one of us.

• We have such a loving, merciful, generous Lord, what a blessing to do everything in our lives wholeheartedly for Him.

• Righteousness, peace, and the joy of the Lord is an inner loveliness shining through the one who is loving the Lord Jesus and seeking His kingdom first.

• He explains that having been eternally saved by grace, we should glory in the trials and tribulations of life which God uses to develop in us perseverance, a godly character, and an unshakable and eternal hope in the loving promises of God.

• BUT GOD Who is loving, gracious, long-suffering, and faithful, pronounced His bitter rod of severe chastening due to their apostasy, which would also prove to be a blossoming staff of sweet comfort and peace, grace and mercy, love, and hope, and joy.

• In His loving-kindness, the Lord Jesus offers the light of His grace freely and abundantly to all who will turn to Him as their Son of righteousness.

• Solomon recognised that God had shown loving-kindness to his father, increased his kingdom, and fulfilled all the promises He made to the great king David.

• And may our love for each other flow out into the world so that unbelievers may see our love, be drawn to Jesus, and enter into a saving knowledge of our loving Saviour.

• We who have been saved by grace through faith in Christ should foster an inner attitude of grateful thanks, loving appreciation, joyous anticipation, and everlasting wonderment at all that He has done for us and His inexpressible love towards us: In that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

• Loving those that love us comes naturally, and although there may well be a selfish motive underlying human love, Jesus tells us that if you only love those that love you, there is no credit connected with this in God's divine administration.
• Loving, lending, and giving to others, too often has an ulterior motive.
• Only those that are saved by grace through faith in the Lord Jesus can display these divine characteristics of our holy and loving God and Father.

• Because of our loving Lord, death has lost its sting, and life is so sweet with our Lord by our side.

• But this unreachable goal is the impossible command given to all believers, and it not only applies to the natural loving kinship within the inner nucleus of beloved companions and best-loved family members, but the beggar in the street, the thieving politician, the accusatorial religionist, the enemy at the gate, the scoffer of our faith, and those that despise, reject, hate, persecute, and kill us.

• And like them, His loving-kindness towards us is new every morning.

• The Lord is patient, long-suffering, and loving toward all He has made.

• Let us harness our heart to our loving Saviour, take up our cross, die to self and live for Him.

• GRACE is the highest expression of God's loving-kindness and benevolent blessings to man which is translated into God's unconditional, unmerited favour and showers super-abundant blessings on all who trust in His name.
• And we are to show forth His loving-kindness, patient endurance, gracious favour, and perfect peace through the witness of our lives; which is only possible as we rest in Him.

• The trial that comes our way is not a stick of punishment from an angry God for our misdemeanours, but the corrective, chastening rod of our loving Heavenly Father Who loved us so much that He sent His only begotten Son to pay the price for our sin so that by believing in Him, we might receive forgiveness of sins and life everlasting.

• Both were also profoundly mindful of the dangers that ensue when fellowship with the Father is broken, knowing that the enemy has a deep-rooted hatred of God's blood-bought children and that he seeks to ship-wreck their loving trust in their Lord by many subtle means.

• The throne of God is underpinned by righteousness and His seat is woven together through His loving-kindness and tender-mercy.

• She nurtures her children with godly wisdom and teaches them the things of the Lord – training them from infancy, in the way that they should go.She cares for the health and safety of her family, serving them and others with a gentle and loving spirit.

• Let us seek Him early and pursue Him earnestly because His loving-kindness is better than life itself.

• But Jesus goes even further, for as well as loving the Lord with all our heart and soul and strength, He adds that we are to love the Lord our God with all our whole mind and intellect as well.
• Loving the Lord with all our heart, and soul, and mind, and strength, is a progressive love that builds and develops in our Christian walk, for as we grow in grace and in a knowledge of our Lord and Saviour, so we grow in love for the Lord our God and are enabled to have that love translated into the good works that God has prepared for us to do.

• But God is a God of loving-kindness, great-goodness, and generous grace.

• The Lord is full of loving-kindness and tender mercies to all who will call out to Him for help - and like the children of Israel who so often cried out to the Lord when they strayed from the paths of righteousness, we too can cry to the Lord our God to show us His loving-kindness and to grant us His salvation.
• The steadfast loving-kindness of the Lord is not only to be seen in the many blessings that fall from His hand each day, but are also seen in His chastening rod and His corrective discipline.
• In every season of our lives, whether in pain or in joy, let us call on our Father: Show us Your loving-kindness, O LORD, and grant us Your salvation.

• It is dying to our own self-interest and letting the beauty and love of the Lord Jesus be seen in us – so that it flows out to others in our actions and attitude.Loving in word, is contrasted with loving in deed.
• The former is to talk about caring, while the latter is to express unconditional love, in action.Loving in tongue is contrasted with loving in spirit and in truth.
• To love in deed and in truth is a supernatural love that comes directly from God, Himself, and can only be manifested in the life of a born-again believer who is walking in spirit and truth.Loving in spirit, in word, in deed, and in truth is evidenced in the life of one who has died to the self-life, abides in Christ, and is able to say with the apostle Paul, It is not I that live my life, but Christ, Whose life is in me and living through me.

• Prayer is the fruit of a humble and helpless heart that comes before the Lord in loving trust.It is the means of two-way fellowship between the Lord of heaven and earth and His helpless child, and it is a most precious tool that God has given to each of His children.

• He had clearly told them that He was leaving them and was going back to the Father in heaven and yet, in His loving-compassion, the Lord Jesus reminded them that He would send the Spirit of truth to guide them into all truth: And to disclose to them what is yet to come.

• As the people of God, we too can be beset with evil, pain, disasters, and distresses in life, but we know that our God is a faithful God who is full of loving-kindness towards us.

• Mary of Bethany is found on three occasions simply sitting at the feet of the Lord Jesus, communing with her Saviour, listening to His Word, looking to Him, learning of Him, loving to be with Him, and pouring out her worship to Him.

• There are other examples in Scripture where the fragrant aroma of ointment or perfume could be likened to the close, loving, and trusted relationships.

• The loving Lord of eternity never deserts the feeble cries of His children who call out to Him day and night.

• is His proclamation to Israel: I have loved you with an everlasting love, therefore, with loving-kindness I have drawn you.

• At the innermost core of man's innermost being we have a human spirit which was designed for 'spirit to Spirit' fellowship with our God (a mutual, loving communion with our Heavenly Father).

• We have no reason to be proud or smug about our God-given gift, nor jealous of the gift He has bestowed upon others, for each receives that which is right and best in God's sight, and each one is a blessing bestowed because of His loving-kindness and gracious-mercy.
• We should not become puffed up because of our spiritual gift or exploit it for our own purposes. Rather, we should rejoice that our names are written in heaven, praising Him that He has regarded us with His loving-kindness and tender mercies.

• He will never leave us and He will not forsake us, even when our faith wears thin or when we fall into sin or turn away from His loving truth.

• Behold: we have a Bridegroom (Who is currently sitting on the right hand of the Father) Who is coming soon to take us home to be with Himself, before He draws Israel as a nation back into His loving arms (as He promised) when He will set up His glorious kingdom on earth, for in that day the earth will be filled with the glory of God as the waters cover the sea. 

• He encourages us to build ourselves up in our most holy faith by praying in the Spirit and keeping ourselves within the loving protection of our Heavenly Father.

• No wonder David continues to praise the Father: Who crowns us with loving-kindness and great compassion. No crown has been fashioned that can compare with the loving-kindness and tender-mercies of our God, which are new every morning.

• Throughout the psalm, there is the sad recollection of the rebellious, disobedient, and ungrateful nation of Israel who forgot the goodness of God and disregarded His loving-kindness to their ancestors.

• Let us bless our heavenly King and glorious Saviour with all that is within us, and let us never forget ALL His benefits, for He has redeemed our life from the pit and crowned us with loving-kindness and compassion.
• He is compassionate, gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in loving-kindness.

• From the beginning in Genesis to the book of Revelation, we discover the plans and purposes of God (which were made in eternity past) unfolding before our eyes and we start to recognise the tender-mercies of our Saviour and the loving-kindness of our great Creator.

• The Lord is long-suffering and of great goodness and He knows that doubts and discouragement can be triggered by so many things that mar our lives, and so He often expands His words of comfort with a beautiful postscript, underlining and emphasising His great goodness and loving-kindness: Do not fear, for I am with you; Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God I will strengthen you, surely I will help you, surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.

• What a beautiful picture Isaiah portrays of Israel being regathered, restored, and remarried by their gracious God, Who is depicted as a faithful and loving husband.

• They implored Him to look down from heaven on His people with loving kindness and great goodness.

• Christ was made sin for the accumulated sin of the whole world in loving obedience to the Father, for He cried: Not My will but Thine be done, and through His shed blood, the sin of the world was forgiven.

• But there is a further reason that whatever we do should be done to the glory of God, and this verse reminds us that it is connected with a loving concern for others.

• When he wrote: He who withholds his rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him diligently, Solomon's use of the word 'rod' was connected with the wise discipline of a loving parent towards a beloved child.

• In times of weakness and weariness, he ran for comfort into the loving arms of his faithful Shepherd and in times of spiritual thirst he cried: Lead me to the Rock that is higher than I, for David had proved God’s faithfulness towards His people and that His everlasting mercy is new every morning.

• May we be in the world (loving others, working with diligence, and glorifying God in our actions), while not being of the world (caught up in the things of the world).

• The vast expanses of the universe and the intricacy of every facet of His creation is a small reflection of God’s loving-kindness and faithfulness towards those that love Him.

• A confident loving-trust in God cannot cohabit alongside destructive fear.

• Good governance in the home results where the man is responsible for loving and caring for his wife with the same self-sacrificial, godly love that Christ loves the Church – and gave Himself for her.Similarly, when the wife responds to her husband's leadership as the Bible teaches, and becomes his most responsive and devoted helper, then the relationship between husband and wife reflects God’s initial plan and purpose for the whole of humanity.Sadly, the blurring of the sexes and the demands of the supposedly 'liberated' women of the 21 century, is diametrically opposite from God's plan and purpose for the human race.

• Loving one another, being compassionate and kind, forgiving one another, and meeting together with our brothers and sisters in Christ are mentioned multiple times in Scripture, making this subject close to the Father-heart of God.

• Following his initial greeting, Paul plunges into praise and thanksgiving to God for the faithful works and loving deeds of the dear believers in Thessalonica, and for their continual anticipation of Christ's return for His people: We know that God loves you, dear brothers, he continues, and that He chose you to be His own people.

• It instructs us in holy living, patient endurance, godly loving, and true worship.

• And yet he also wrote of God's long-suffering patience, His loving-kindness, and His never-failing tender-mercy towards His errant people.

• He obviously longed for a time when righteousness and peace would reign on earth, and loving-kindness and truth would be established in the land.

• And so He called out, giving a loving response to their prayer without any delay: But immediately Jesus spoke to them saying, 'Take courage, it is I; do not be afraid.'Did you see that?

• The loving-kindness of the Lord never fails, and the grace and mercy of our Heavenly Father gives unlimited supply.
• Like David, we must trust in our Father and never doubt His loving-kindness which is new every morning.

• In Psalm 36, David bemoans men's wickedness before contrasting it with the loving-kindness and great goodness of God.
• The sad bitterness, revengeful thoughts, arrogant attitude, and angry unforgiveness of the ungodly that so often floods the minds of sinful man, stands in stark contrast with the overflowing loving-kindness, compassionate-mercy, and unmerited gracious-pardon that streamed from the veins of the Lord Jesus, when He stretched out His arms of love to embrace whosoever will.
• God's mercy and loving-kindness does indeed extend to the skies.
• His love plunges beyond the bottomless depths of the deepest oceans, and His loving-faithfulness, righteousness, and justice plummet to the very depths of our understanding and extend into the farthest reaches of our limited grasp.

• It is by the marvellous grace of our great and loving Kinsman-Redeemer that our sins are forever forgiven.

• Loving hospitality to strangers and a caring, Christian love for those close to us, should be the hallmark of all believers, for God may send holy angels, family members, strangers who come to our door, or people we interact with in the street, as ministering spirits to encourage, exhort, teach, correct, reproof, correct, or instruct in righteousness.
• May we make it our daily practice to show hospitality to strangers and exhibit genuine, loving-kindness to all we meet, for who knows maybe we also have entertained angels unaware - or maybe we will encounter one in the coming days. 

• They were not to be pugnacious or fond of sordid gain, but hospitable, loving what is good, sensible, just, devout, self-controlled, and holding fast to the gospel which is in accordance with sound teaching.

• His strength is matchless and His loving-kindness is unsurpassed.

• It is David who calls us to: Taste and see that the Lord is good, and we who have trusted in Christ as Saviour have truly tasted of the goodness of God in our own lives, and have seen in abundance the loving-kindness and forgiveness of our gracious Heavenly Father.

• Paul knew that the God of Comforts is the supernatural Comforter Who comforts all His children in this world of woe so that through Christ our Comforter, we can offer comfort to others who also are in need of loving comfort and godly support.

• My God will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus, is a verse we all love to quote as we rejoice in the abundant supply of our generous God Who is overflowing with gracious-mercy and bubbling over with loving-kindness.

• David knew that God’s loving-kindness was ever before his eyes, for he was a man of faith who trusted God's Word.
• Let us remember that God's loving faithfulness and sovereign power is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and let us seek to depend on Him and trust His promises, no matter what we have to face in this life.

• Fulfilling the law of Christ by loving others as Christ loved us, and owing nothing to anyone except to love them, can only be in done in the power of the indwelling Spirit.

• A deep and loving concern for the believers in Rome was reflected in Paul's opening message of thankful praise for each of them.
• But more than this he called upon the eternal God of the universe, Creator of heaven and earth, as witness to his own deep and loving concern for their spiritual wellbeing.
• Let us seek to develop the same deep and loving concern for all our brothers and sisters in Christ, as we, like Paul, lift them up in earnest prayer to our Father in heaven.

• He mentions that Aristarchus, one of Paul's fellow prisoners, and also John Mark, the cousin of Barnabas, sent loving wishes to them, together with Justus (a Jewish believer), Epaphras who was a brother from Colossae, Luke (the beloved physician), and of course, Demas.

• Loving the people that cross our path experientially day by day, living a life of integrity, and showing consideration towards others, is the mark of a true believer who is walking in spirit, in truth, and in love.
• The Jew who lied about his fellow Jew, would have broken the Mosaic Law as it shows a lack of love towards his neighbour, and a farmer who refused to leave stalks of wheat in his field for the poor to gather, would have broken the Law of gleaning, which similarly would break the Mosaic Law on LOVING their neighbour. 

• Loving provision had been extended to the woman who bore Him, and He carried the weight of the world on His heart as He became sin for mankind so that lost sinners could become the righteousness of God in Him.Every facet of the law had been fulfilled, every prophecy accomplished.
• He has committed to provide for all we need and to pour forth rivers of living water to sooth our thirsty souls as we become more like Him so that loving communion with Him may deepen and develop.

• But His mercies are new every morning, and His loving-kindness is demonstrated in multiple ways with every passing day, and so it is appropriate that we also sing new songs of praise and thanksgiving that rejoice in God, our Saviour.

• His third utterance from the Cross, is a one of gracious comfort and loving assurance to His mother, as well as bestowing an opportunity of sweet service to John, the disciple whom Jesus loved.
• But friend or foe alike, every one needed to be washed in His redeeming blood or pay the consequences of sin's deadly hold.Devoted obedience to the Father, gracious redemption of humanity, a glorious Bride for Himself, and the victorious reclamation of the kingdom was the goal of His divine calling, yet the loving-kindness He showed towards His mother, demonstrates the humanity of our Lord and the empathetic nature of God for His children, for when Jesus saw his mother and the disciple He loved standing nearby, He said to his mother, Dear woman, here is your son, and to the disciple he loved, Here is your mother.

• Earlier in the psalm, it appears that all David wanted was to be avenged for the wrong these wicked men had done to him, but as he listed their evil actions, it caused him to remember that he served a God Who is full of loving kindness and has promised to protect the needy and save them from those that would judge, accuse, and abuse them.

• And like Paul, the prophet Hosea also recognised the deeper truth that is packed within these simple words; that the fruit of righteousness produced in man is only from God, and it is due to His loving-kindness and tender-mercy that the trusting heart is able to partake of any righteousness.
• They were to sow with a view to righteousness and reap in accordance to mercy and loving-kindness.

• The instruction Christ was giving us in this request was about developing dependent faith in the child of God, and the prayer requests that we make to the Lord are designed to increase that faith and to enlarge in us a loving trust in our Heavenly Father and a trusting love for our gracious Lord.

• This verse paints an intimate picture of a loving God Who not only provides for and nurtures the people He created in His own image, but a personal God Who chooses to have fellowship with us.

• Loving one's neighbour in the same way that we love and care for ourselves was an instruction Christ gave to Israel many times during His earthly ministry, and both Paul and James quoted this instruction in their respective writings to Christians.
• The importance of loving our neighbour as ourselves is a principle that both the born-again believer and the unsaved man recognise as coming from the lips of Jesus, and is diametrically opposite to the reaction of the natural man in this fallen world.

• Let us take comfort that the Lord is our faithful and loving God Who will never fail us nor forsake us.

• Timothy had a deep and loving concern for the flock of God that reflected Paul's own deep concern for them... and so Timothy, who was Paul's son-in-the-faith, was dispatched to give encouragement and instruction to the Philippian Christians.

• They also expressed their loving goodwill towards Paul, knowing that He had been appointed by the Lord for the defence of the gospel of grace. These dear people knew that Paul had been entrusted with certain mysteries which had been hidden from earlier ages and generations, but had been made known to them, through Paul.
• They valued him and his ministry, and showed him their loving concern when he was put in prison.

• The Lord could easily have done all these great things without informing David - but in His grace and love, and according to His knowledge and wisdom, the Lord shared this information with the shepherd king of Israel who recognised the loving-kindness of his Creator in giving him this information.

• He acknowledged his own lack by acknowledging the supremacy and sufficiency of God: Who preserves His covenant and loving-kindness with those who love Him, and keep His commandments.

• It portrayed a broken and contrite heart of loving trust that was dedicated to the Lord by the person, or group of people, who gave the offering.

• Some, like Barnabas, did this with loving and charitable motives, while others were tempted to do it out of duty, or to make themselves appear to be generous and philanthropic in front of their fellow believers, whilst retaining a hidden heart of selfishness.

• Daniel believed God's Word because the Lord is faithful; He is holy, and righteous, and forgiving, and gracious, and merciful, and loving, and kind, and true.

• May we live each day in the knowledge that our eternity is secure in the hands of our loving Lord.

• However, the addition of the word mercy in Paul's customary greeting and its inclusion, twice more, in this final epistle to Timothy, gives the impression that God's mercy on his young protégé, was close to the apostle's heart. Mercy has been defined by one scholar as, the self-moved, spontaneous loving-kindness of God, which causes Him to deal in compassion and tender affection, with the miserable, the hurting and the distressed.

• Let us, like David, put our entire trust in the Lord and open our ears morning by morning, to hear of His loving-kindness and to joyfully sing of His never-ending faithfulness.

• God in His foreknowledge, knew all that was to take place in the life of Joseph long before he was born, and God prepared the way for the brutish, bullying behaviour of his eleven brothers to be transformed into a precious picture of God's protection and loving-care for His people.

• What a wonderful example of God’s loving-kindness and gracious patience towards His people is discovered in the pages of Isaiah, and what graphic details are painted of Jesus, the suffering Servant, Who was despised and rejected of men.

• God is long-suffering and full of loving-kindness and mercy, and it is not His desire that any should perish, but that all men should repent and turn to Him, but when wickedness and evil is multiplied, when superstition and immorality abounds, when idolatry and idol worship has contaminated a society, and the repeated call to repent is ignored and ridiculed, there comes a time when God must carry out punishment on an evil and perverse generation.
• And although God remained faithful, long-suffering, and full of loving-kindness towards His chosen people, they became unfaithful, blasphemed His name, ignored His commands, refused to trust His Word, and fell into shocking idolatry and apostasy.

• Once Adam had called every kind of creature by name, the male with his mate, God constructed Eve, bone of Adam's bone and flesh of Adam's flesh, and they were knit together in a God-orchestrated, loving marriage union: Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh.

• But God in His long-suffering, loving-kindness, and great mercy, has extended the period of His gracious forgiveness to include you, and to include me, and to include all who will turn from their sins and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation, Who alone deserves our eternal praise and worship.

• The marriage of Hosea to his adulterous wife Gomer, not only paints a precious portrait of God's never-failing loving-kindness towards His people, but also portrays the unalterable justice of a holy and righteous God Who cannot look upon sin, but Whose character demands righteous judgement of the sin of the whole world.

• He found the Lord was a God Who kept His promises, and Whose loving-kindness and great goodness never failed: The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want... David wrote, as he meditated on Scripture, day and night.  He makes me to lie down in green pastures.

• Not only are we to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ for our salvation (our justification) but we are to keep on walking in the truth, and loving as Christ loved.

• His healing hand never fails to comfort and succour His blood-bought children - for He crowns us all with loving-kindness and the tenderest of mercies.
• May His loving-kindness and eternal mercies engender in our hearts awe and wonder for this timeless truth: That Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that ALL who believe on Him, will not perish but have everlasting life.

• May we, who have tasted of His loving kindness and great mercy, come to our rejected Lord, willing to be rejected by the world for His name's sake, for we are members of His Body and living stones who are being built into a spiritual Temple for His names sake.

• Only He was capable of loving God with a perfect love.

• He was driven to the point where he needed the stain on his soul to be washed away and cleansed: Be merciful to me, Elohim, according to Thy loving-kindness, according to the greatness of Thy compassion blot out my transgressions!

• He describes how God's loving purposes towards us reach back before the world was founded and stretch forward into an endless eternity.

• There were many laws that were connected with the planting, reaping, and harvesting of crops which demonstrates the loving-kindness and great compassion the Lord has for those that are poor, alone, disabled, widowed, or simply a visitor from a foreign land.

• There is nothing we can do to repay the Lord for all His goodness and loving-kindness He has shown towards us, but we can live a life that is pleasing to Him by trusting His Word and seeking in all that we say and do to live a godly life, to walk in spirit and truth, submitted to the leading of the Holy Spirit, and letting the love of Christ shine through us in thought and deed, to the glory of the Father.

• He is not cold and distant, but ever present, ever loving, delighting in us when we come boldly and confidently into His presence.

• Not even those that are redeemed can separate themselves from His loving care, because Jesus Christ Himself has secured our salvation forever, through His sacrifice on the Cross.

• He looked back at all that God had done for his nation and praised God for His loving-kindness and long-suffering towards them.

• Solomon gives specific warning against the oily allurement of the prostitute or adulteress, and delineates the enormous price of infidelity, while commending the delights of monogamous matrimony and loving loyalty between a husband and his wife who pledge to love, honour, respect, and cherish one another, 'until death separates this God-ordained union'.

• The Lord in His grace has promised to feed His flock like a shepherd and gather the little lambs into His loving arms.

• John had been one who had walked with Him by the way, listened to His teachings, seen the signs and miracles Jesus had performed, witnessed His tender-mercy and loving compassion, and had been empowered to carry out mighty signs and great wonders in His holy name.

• Our loving Lord Jesus Christ.

• Our loving heavenly Father has not only promised to lead us sometimes, many times, or most times.
• However far we have wandered from His loving arms, whenever we are burdened by the cares we are carrying or whenever the concerns of others weigh heavily on our heart, His grace is sufficient, for His strength is made perfect in our weakness.

• In this beautiful song of praise, Israel recognised that the goodness of God was not dependent on them but on His everlasting faithfulness - His eternal grace - His loving kindness, which is never-ending.

• Let us give thanks to our Father for His loving kindness and truth and believe, in spirit and truth, that GOD has magnified His WORD according to all His holy NAME.

• He has redeemed our life from death and corruption and has crowned us with His loving-kindness and tender mercy - which is new every morning.

• They were to teach God's covenant nation the importance of loving the Lord their God with all their heart, and soul, and mind, and strength.

• The first section which covers about nine chapters, starts with a loving lecture of a father to his dearly beloved son.

• He reminded them how God had found them, cared for them, guarded, and protected them: Just like an eagle that stirs up its nest, and hovers over its young, The Lord spread His wings and caught them, and carried them on His pinions. Moses paints the most beautiful picture of God's loving-kindness towards His people, Israel.

• Loving others as Christ loved us, is not something that we can do in our own fallen, fleshly strength.

• They were not loving their Lord with all their heart nor were they spiritually on fire for Him.

• This hope is not only reserved in heaven for these faithful, loving, Colossian believers, but for all who have heard and believed God's Word of truth; the gospel of the grace of God.

• It takes effort on the part of the parent to ensure that discipline is never imparted in anger or from a hasty reaction, but given as a consistent, loving, firm, but fair consequence to a child's actions or attitude.

• The eternal Son of the Father was made a little lower than the angels for a season, but having been born into such humble surroundings, lived a life of loving and obedient submission to the Father, and having purged our sins at Calvary's cruel Cross, the Lord Jesus became the firstborn from the dead at His Resurrection.

• Quoting from Proverbs 3, the writer of the Hebrews reminds us: My son, do not despise the Lord's discipline nor be weary of his correction, for whom the Lord keeps on loving He keeps on correcting; even as a father the son in whom he delights.

• The loving-kindness and long-suffering of the Lord is beautifully expressed in this little verse, but the final part of Isaiah's utterance is very disturbing: BUT they would not listen.

• The harvest is white but the workers are few, so let us build each other up in the Body of Christ, helping each other, loving one another and taking the gospel into the world.
• May our Christian life and service be a loving partnership with the other members of Christ's Body.

• Following the flood of bitter woes that tumbles from his pleading heart, and having cried out to the Lord for mercy and help, this man finally turns his thoughts to the living God to whom he is praying – the Creator of the world – the Maker of heaven and earth – the omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent, all-wise, loving, righteous God of the whole universe.
• The prayer of a frightened man that started with a focus on self and his own mountainous problems, concluded with a prayer of assured faith and worship of his God, the Creator of the world – the Maker of heaven and earth – the omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent, all-wise, loving, righteous God of the whole universe – Who knows each of us by name and cares enough to take the difficulties of life to cause us to turn our focus on Christ and not on ourselves.

• We are told that strength will be freely given, when we admit our weaknesses and inabilities, and we are charged to hand over all our cares and disappointments to the Lord, Who has promised to bear all our burdens because of His loving-kindness and tender mercy towards us.

• May we remember that the same Son of God who warmed the hearts of His disciples and drew them into His loving arms for the forgiveness of sin and life everlasting, is the same Son of God Whose purifying presence hardens rebellious hearts in an oven of pride, jealousy, and unbelief. 

• Some consider that God was unjust to condemn the whole human race because of one man's sin - but in reality this is the most gracious and loving action imaginable, for as through the one man's disobedience (ADAM's sin) the manywere made sinners, even so through the obedience of the One Man (JESUS CHRST and His sacrifice for sin) many will be made righteous.

• Man had separated himself from God because of sin, but God reached down from the heaven of heavens in loving-kindness and gracious mercy to sinful, fallen man with the good news of Jesus Christ, for He is the centre and the circumference of God's good news.

• How different is the wisdom that comes from the Spirit of God, for it is pure and peace-loving, considerate, gentle, and submissive.
• In these increasingly violent days in which we live, let us take the words of James to heart, relying on the pure wisdom of God to lead and instruct us, enabling us to produce good fruit, being considerate, sincere, merciful, impartial, and peace-loving.

• Eliezer asked God to show loving-kindness to his master, by granting him success in his mission.
• His prayer was not only that his mission would be successful and God's loving-kindness would be shown to his master, but also that God's perfect will would be carried out in the choice of a wife for Isaac.

• It is by means of loving another that they become stimulated to love in return.
• It is through an unchanging attitude of never-failing Christ-like love towards our brothers and sisters in Christ, irrespective of their attitude towards us, that love can be motivated within them (as they see Christ living in us and loving through us).

• Despite his imprisonment, Paul delights in the fellowship of the gospel and discovers an inner holy joy that comes from tenderly keeping the saints of God in his loving thoughts and holding them in his heart.

• However, Stephen's bold proclamation of the glorious gospel message, together with his gracious words of forgiveness and the releasing of his spirit into the loving arms of Christ Jesus our Lord, is an inspiration to men and women of all ages who may have to face severe persecution for the sake of Jesus Christ.

• The disobedient child needs to be chastened, and the child that is wounded and afraid needs the loving compassion that can only come from the heart of a father who truly cares for the child of his love.
• The loving compassion of every earthly father is completely eclipsed by the tender-hearted pity and grace that God shows to each of His own.

• Those that desire to be elders should be loving husbands to their wives and not be bitter against them.

• Salvation is an unmerited gift, and salvation is an eternal gift from the Lord of the universe to fallen man flowing from the exceeding riches of His amazing grace which is found in Jesus Christ.This gift of salvation streams to mankind from the Father-heart of a loving God Who knew that the sinful race of fallen humanity faced a lost eternity without the great and costly gift of His only begotten Son.

• Circumcision may have been highly regarded by Jews in Old Testament times, but by elevating this physical sign above loving obedience to the Lord and by regarding it as the means to their salvation, it became no more than a mindless ritual.

• Surely we have a gracious and compassionate God Who is loving and merciful, patient and kind.

• The loving heart of the Eternal is most wonderfully kind.In the earthly realm, both faith and hope will last, for without faith it is impossible to please God and without hope we could not endure.

• But being so rich in mercy, in His gracious loving-kindness, God loved us.

• What is more insignificant than a little wayside flower or the grass of the field, and yet Christ used a simple wild lily to demonstrate the gracious care and loving concern our heavenly Father has for each of His blood-bought children.
• And Christ used this rich and famous king to illustrate His loving care and gracious concern for the needs and necessities of all His children.
• How often we need to remember His loving provision and tender-mercies towards us ALL.What could seem less significant than a broken reed, a tiny sparrow, a widow’s mite, or a little wayside flower, but God takes and uses such insignificant, everyday, mundane things and then He contrasts them with the opulence of the wisest, wealthiest man that ever lived in order to demonstrate His unconditional love and superabundant grace towards us, reminding us that He knows us personally, loves us unconditionally, and cares for each of us individually.When the Lord Jesus takes such care to get His point across to us, perhaps we need to take note of what He is saying.

• Loving each other in the Body of Christ, is a theme that runs throughout the New Testament.

• And the world often portrays the Lord Jesus as a bit of a push-over with His teachings on being meek and mild-mannered, loving your enemies, blessing those who curse you, and praying for those that despitefully use you. 

• For it is only and ultimately through Jesus, the Son of God Who is God the Son, that we can find grace to help in time of need, for His grace is sufficient, His office is efficacious, and His loving-mercy is everlasting.

• So after praising Gaius for his loving hospitality, John called out Diotrephes because of his unchristian attitude and behaviour which dishonoured the Lord and discredited the Gospel of Christ.

• Every attribute of the Father gives us one more precious glimpse of His faithfulness, His loving-kindness, His wisdom, and His purpose.

• But no child of God can ever stray so far away from his heavenly Father that he is not able to be returned into His loving arms.
• We are to recall the blessings which are ours in Jesus Christ, and we are to return into His loving embrace and do the things that are pleasing in His sight.

• Reaching a point of desperation is often the way that God's straying children return into His loving arms.

• But God chose to expose the wickedness of Satan, and in His mercy, love, and justice, purposed to save mankind from the terrible consequences of sin by taking the punishment that we justly deserve upon Himself, through the sacrifice of His dearly beloved Son.God communicated His Own eternal plans and loving purposes to all humanity throughout the pages of Holy Scripture, at the centre of which is His amazing plan of salvation whereby the sinless sacrificial Lamb of God would pay the full redemption price for all who would believe on His name.

• He pledged to feed His flock like a Shepherd and committed to gather His little lost lambs into His own loving arms.

• But David is a man after God's own heart, and although that does not preclude him from having to go through the inevitable trials and tribulations of life, his confidence stands firm in the goodness of the Lord and his bitter pleas for help come from a man who trusts in God's loving-kindness and rejoices in the joy of his salvation.

• It was John who had witnessed His gracious acts of loving-kindness with his own eyes.

• Loving our enemies and doing good to those that are unkind to us and spitefully use us can never be achieved in our own strength or self-effort.

• Moses spoke of the loving-kindnesses of the Lord which never ceases.

• But, as in all his Psalms, David repeatedly recites the goodness of the Lord towards himself and rejoices in the loving-kindness of the God of His salvation.

• The tender-goodness and loving-kindness of the Lord is unchanging and unchangeable.
• If for nine long months a woman, as imperfect as she is, has protected the tiny form growing in her womb, suffered the agonies of labour and child-birth, and then has drawn the tiny form to suckle nourishment from her breast, how much more will our loving Heavenly Father love, protect, and cherish us who are His blood-bought children.
• It was our loving Father Himself Who formed us, in secret, in our mother's womb and scheduled each day of our life.

• But we must recognise suffering as God's loving rod of correction and His staff of comfort.

• The chastening of the Lord should never be compared with a judge passing sentence on a criminal, but rather as a loving father disciplining his beloved son.

• But do we simply express our love for the Lord as a required obligation or Christian duty, (as do unsaved tax-gatherers and sinners, who only love those who reciprocate their love), or is there a deeper level of loving God because He loved us first?

• The life of Jesus is characterised in conduct, conversation, attitude, and action by an outflow of loving grace and compassionate mercy towards those with Whom He came in contact.

• David chose to call to mind the faithfulness of God and reflect on the strength of his powerful Lord, Whose loving-kindness lasts for a thousand generations and Whose great goodness and mercy will follow all who trust in Him.

• We have a wonderful God, and throughout His Word we see over and again His loving-kindness, tender-mercies, and patient-endurance ever flowing out to His children and guiding us along the right pathway.

• In His gracious-kindness, loving-mercy, and long-suffering: God was reconciling the world to Himself, not counting our trespasses and sins against us but entrusting all who believe in Him the wonderful message of reconciliation.

• Trust in the Lord is our portion too and prayer to the Lord is our privilege as well, for we know that in Christ we have a portion and privilege for we are His people and the sheep of His pasture – we are a new creation in Christ and He is our loving Heavenly Father.

• It was a sacrificial offering that showed deep loving respect for the Lord and a passion to carry out His will no matter what the cost.

• The heavens declare the glory of God to humanity, and the scriptures increasingly unveil His perfect character and holy attributes to all the children of men, as we see multiple examples of His loving-kindness, His long-suffering mercy, and His gracious faithfulness to all generations.

• The yearning that Paul felt towards the Corinthian Church was that of a loving father towards his beloved virgin daughter who is betrothed to be married, and whose dear desire and precious privilege is to maintain her purity until she is finally united as one with her husband.

• The song Moses taught, drew a stark contrast between the goodness, greatness, loving-kindness, and righteousness of their sovereign God, with His perverse and petulant people who broke their covenant, sinned against Him, and acted corruptly toward Him. 

• And this was according to the riches of God's marvellous grace, His loving-kindness, and His matchless holiness.

• Israel was to trust the Lord in loving obedience and humility of heart.

• He should not be rebellious nor self-willed, not quick-tempered or addicted to wine, not pugnacious or fond of sordid gain, but rather he should be hospitable, loving what is good, sensible, just, devout, and self-controlled.

• Our loving, heavenly Father did not spare His dearly beloved Son, but delivered Him up to be crucified for us all so that by faith in His sacrificial death and glorious Resurrection, we might be redeemed and declared holy by faith.

• But our loving Lord, Who is the same yesterday, today and forever, knows all that is transpiring, and is in full control.

• He is truly a gracious God, full of loving-kindness and goodness.

• While Isaac favoured the outgoing Esau who had become a great hunter, Rebekah delighted in the home-loving Jacob, and so he did not tell his wife about his decision to give his blessing to Esau.

• We need to recognise that God's chastening is not His wrath or some angry punishment or penalty, but rather God graciously deals with us as a loving Father Who seeks to mould us into the image and likeness of the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, for our benefit and for His glory.

• It was not that God hated Esau as opposed to loving him, nor does it indicate that one brother is saved and the other is not.

• Let us humbly thank our merciful God that our eternal destiny does not depend on the man who wills or the man who runs, but on God Who is full of mercy and loving kindness.

• From Abel to Abraham, from Moses to David, and from Amos to those men in the fields of Bethlehem who were keeping watch over their flocks by night, we see God using shepherds as an illustration of His loving-care for the needs of His people Whom He describes as little lambs and wandering sheep - lambs and sheep who have been led astray by false, destructive, and idle shepherds.

• The repeating, melodious heartbeat that caresses every part of the created universe, rejoices that His loving-kindness is everlasting, His steadfast mercies endure forever, His faithful love is never-ending, and His unwavering goodness, stretches into the furthest extremities of eternity.
• As all the deeds and misdeeds of Israel are pronounced and publicised throughout this hymn of praise, the tender loving-kindness and great compassion of the Lord continues to be shed abroad.
• The wonderful certainty that the loving-kindness of our heavenly Lord is everlasting, and that His truth endures from one generation to another, should permeate every fibre of our being and thrill the heart of every believer with the fullness of His joy and a heart of gratitude.
• He alone is the God of all gods for His love is eternal, His mercy and loving-kindness endure forever, and He is faithful to fulfil all that He has said.

• Isaac favoured Esau, his older son, who - unlike his home-loving brother - was a strong, skilful, hunting man.

• But God in His loving-kindness and gracious mercy sent His only begotten Son to come to earth to die in our place so that we might come boldly into the presence of the Lord to find mercy in time of need and gain immediate and intimate access into the heart of the Father, forever.

• It is a matter of faith, which pleases the loving heart of our gracious God of Love and secures our hope in Christ Jesus our Lord.
• Enshrouded beneath the dreary fog of hopelessness is hidden our loving Provider.

• He chastens us like a loving Father Who corrects the son He loves.

• From the start to the end of Scripture, the Lord shows Himself to be compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in loving-kindness.
• The more we come to know the Lord, the more He develops in each of us a deepening desire to know Him more and to love Him better, for He has proved Himself to be compassionate and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in loving-kindness.
• David, the psalmist of Israel who penned these beautiful words, faced tremendous hardship and deep troubles, but the testimony of his life was that He looked back and recounted the compassion and grace that the Lord expressed towards His people, and he looked forward to the coming prophesied Redeemer Who was to personify the over-abounding loving-kindness and tender mercies to all His people.
• Let us meditate on the gracious acts of God in our lives, His tenderness to us in times of specific hardship, and His loving-kindness to us, that is ever present.
• When difficulties arise in our lives and we are beset on every side with hardships and trials, we need to adopt the attitude of David in His many psalms of praise and thanksgiving – who reflected on God's past goodness, rejoiced in His future promises, and blessed the Lord for all the benefits that He bestows on us day by day: For the Lord is compassion and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in loving-kindness. 

• He fasted and prayed before the God of heaven with the firm expectation that the Lord would hear and respond, for the Lord is a faithful God Whose loving-kindness reaches from one generation to another.

• A thread of hope and praise weaves its way through these verses, as David makes a declaration of God's grace and loving-kindness to those that call on His name, and are humble in heart.
• In His loving-kindness and great mercy, our faithful God has given us His written word..

• This beautiful union between a man and his wife was born out of the heart of our loving God Who bestowed marriage as a sacred ordinance upon the creation He made and the people He loved.

• God is loving and merciful, He is abounding in tender-kindness, and desires to forgive sinners, but God is also holy and righteous.

• Paul took this opportunity to use their loving generosity towards the saints in Jerusalem as a teaching opportunity.
• Our attitude should reflect that of our gracious and loving Lord.

• On our journey through life, we are called to be humble and hopeful, and to show a loving concern for all of our brothers and sisters in Christ.

• There are, no doubt, times when a loving shepherd has lost his life trying to protect his flock from such wild beasts.

• It was through their loving gift that God met Paul's needs, and Paul knew that this godly gift would add to their blessing in time and spiritual rewards in eternity.

• But what of the question that the Lord asked to this woman of Samaria: Give Me a drink. Both Jesus and the woman knew that Jews did not associate with Samaritans and yet, this loving question from Jesus opened up a dialogue that would lead to the salvation of her soul.

• It is by His grace that we were forgiven of our sins and brought into loving fellowship with Him, and it is by His grace that we are being perfected to be conformed into the likeness of His dear Son.

• In the increasingly evil days in which we live, let us turn from everything that is evil, walk by the Spirit, doing good in His power and for His glory, and seek the peace which transcends understanding, and which is only found in the loving arms of our Lord Jesus Christ.

• The Hebrew indicates that the man was 'set to rest' (nuah) in these splendid surroundings, in order to 'to serve' (abad) his loving God Who had created all things well.

• God is more than the Creator, He is the LORD God Who is in the midst of us; loving us, caring for us, protecting us, defending us, indwelling us, and Who died so that we might have life and have it in superabundance.

• In brief, as members of Christ's Body, our lives should be a reflection of the Lord Jesus Christ in us through a practical demonstration of loving acts, kindly deeds, and gracious words.

• He demonstrated, in spirit and truth, the way that God intended man to live... which was in a loving relationship with one another and a reverential attitude towards God.

• In the book of Romans, Paul takes up this theme, encouraging us to live godly lives, loving our neighbour as ourselves.

• Should we not rejoice in the Lord and thank Him for loving us so much that He sent Jesus to defeat the enemy of our soul and make us citizens of heaven and joint-heirs with Christ?

• The grace of God is never terminated because His compassion never fails, His tender mercy and loving-kindness are new every morning: Even though He may permit suffering, He will show compassion according to His abundant and faithful love.

• And as we meditate on these terrifying prophetic verses, we can have peace in our hearts that God (Who is altogether righteous, altogether loving, and altogether perfect) will do right in all things.

• The Son of the Father came to earth as the sacrifice for sin because of God's great loving-kindness, His sweet tender-compassion, and His eternal goodness, grace, and mercy, toward the children of men.
• He gave us life: the Spirit of life, newness of life, eternal life, and abundant life, because of the depth of His loving-kindness and sweetest compassion.

• It is in His gracious, loving-kindness that God brings each of us to face such depths so that He can purge out the old Self and form in us the pure and holy nature of the Lord Jesus.

• Indeed, the father... as the head of the home, should set a godly example to all by exercising loving leadership and appropriate correction, without inflicting autocratic domination.

• She was to be all that Adam lacked in his loneliness, and together they would become one flesh and live together in loving unity.

• He is full of tender kindness and loving mercy, but He is also a righteous God of justice Who is honest and fair.

• This section of Paul's letter begins by explaining the responsibility we have as Christians, to walk in a manner that is worthy of our calling, and to live together in unity of spirit with all humility, gentleness, patience, and loving tolerance towards one another.

• And John continues in the following verse: The one who keeps His commandments (by believing on the Lord Jesus Christ and loving as He loves) abides in Him, and He in him, and we know by this that He abides in us, by the Spirit Whom He has given us.

• As believers in Christ, we are loved with an everlasting love and have been drawn by God with loving-kindness and with great goodness.

• But we also have a responsibility to grow and mature as we feed on the meat of the Word, deepening our knowledge and understanding of Christ, and spending our lives loving the brethren, caring for our neighbours, and sharing abroad the wonderful gospel of Christ, all to the glory of God.

• He has chosen to awaken his mind to God's eternal loving-kindness, causing him to explode in a triumphant proclamation: I will sing praises of God into all of eternity.

• We are called to encourage those that are struggling, to pray for those that do not know Him, and to sow eternal seeds of hope, joy, and rejoicing in the hearts of all we meet so that together we will one day rejoice as we stand and worship our great King of kings and loving Lord of glory.