The LORD is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. (Psalm34:18 NIV) Republished with permission from Blogs.crossmap.com, featuring inspiring Bible verses about The LORD is close to the brokenhearted.
Tag: gods love
True Hope for Hard Seasons
It wasn’t your traditional school drop-off scenario. No little ones tumbled out of a minivan as their mom waved goodbye and dodged other vehicles in the carpool lane. Instead, it was quieter—idyllic, almost, as my fully-grown younger brother and I pulled into the shaded circle drive of his graduate school building. The peaceful rustle of… Continue reading True Hope for Hard Seasons
Discover The Desires Of God’s Heart – Part 2 – Pursuing Intimacy With God
Discover The Desires of God’s Heart – Part 2 In Part 1 of this series of articles on the desires of God’s heart, we looked at God’s main call and desire for His children and followers. What is His main call and the main desire in God’s heart for His children ? To have the closest possible… Continue reading Discover The Desires Of God’s Heart – Part 2 – Pursuing Intimacy With God
I Know My Redeemer Lives
But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and he will stand upon the earth at last. Job 19:25 Job didn’t know at this point in his life why he was suffering. He felt that to the best of his ability he had lived his life pleasing to God. In fact, God said in… Continue reading I Know My Redeemer Lives
He Loves Me Anyway
Christianity It’s amazing, really. We take this word, “love”, and we define it in so many ways. There are love languages and love stories and love ballads. It has got to be one of the most talked about words in the English vocabulary. And we still don’t fully grasp it’s meaning. I heard this song… Continue reading He Loves Me Anyway
John MacArthur on God’s Consistent Love
This series was first published in June, 2016. –ed. God’s attributes don’t compete against one another for importance. His love doesn’t override everything else He says about Himself. Moreover, love isn’t something that God discovered in the New Testament, thus abandoning His earlier dominant attributes of justice and wrath. The transition from Malachi to Matthew… Continue reading John MacArthur on God’s Consistent Love
God’s Infinite Perfection
This post was first published in June, 2020. —ed. We can’t fully understand God’s holiness. But we can understand it much better than we currently do. By and large, the typical evangelical’s understanding of God is pathetically superficial. Too many professing believers think about God in only self-centered and self-indulgent terms, reducing Him to little… Continue reading God’s Infinite Perfection
Making Sense of God’s Love
Love is the best known but least understood of all God’s attributes. Almost everyone who believes in God these days believes that He is a God of love. I have even met agnostics who are quite certain that if God exists, He must be benevolent, compassionate, and loving. All those things are infinitely true about God, of course, but… Continue reading Making Sense of God’s Love
The God Who Understands
Most people think of God as being far removed from human life and concerns. Jesus is the very Son of God, yet His divinity did not prevent Him from experiencing our feelings, our emotions, our temptations, and our pain. God became man to share in the testing and suffering of humanity, in order that He… Continue reading The God Who Understands
God in the Hands of Giddy Sinners
Many charismatics today claim that the Great Awakening was a forerunner to their own movement, marked by the same emotional outbursts and experiences that dominate their worship. Moreover, as we’ve already seen, they argue that the movement was quenched by an emphasis on theological precision. But such arguments betray a woeful misunderstanding of the Great Awakening—a… Continue reading God in the Hands of Giddy Sinners