All He Asks of Us is Love
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🗓️ 10 May 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
It has been and always will be easy for people, especially religious people, to become focused on the wrong things in life. I constantly find myself making things more difficult or convoluted than they really are. The reality of this life with God is that all he asks of us is love. As we continue this week on the simplicity of love, today we’ll explore God’s heart on the subject. What does God require of us? What does he ask of us? May we take a step back today, examine our own hearts’ pursuits, and rest in the reality of how simple God’s love really is.
Our Scripture for today comes from 1 Corinthians 13:13, and today's worship is There Is No Striving by Rita Springer.
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“Now what?” “How do I find and keep a daily connection with my Creator on my own?”
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| 0:00.0 | It has been and always will be easy for people, especially religious people, to become focused on the wrong things in life. |
| 0:13.0 | I constantly find myself making things more difficult or convoluted than they really are. |
| 0:19.0 | The reality of this life with God is that all he asks of us is love. |
| 0:23.6 | As we continue this week on the simplicity of love, today we'll explore God's heart on the subject. |
| 0:29.6 | What does God require of us? What does He ask of us? |
| 0:34.6 | May we take a step back today, examine our own heart's pursuits, and rest in the |
| 0:39.9 | reality of how simple God's love really is. Welcome to the first of team podcast. Our verse for today comes from 1 Corinthians 1313. |
| 1:05.0 | Scripture says, so now faith, hope, and love abide, these three, but the greatest of these is love. |
| 1:16.5 | One of the most life-giving transformational truths of the gospel is that of everything we have |
| 1:22.7 | to offer God, of everything in this life we have to give. He most desires our love. |
| 1:31.0 | To love God is all encompassing, Colossians 314 says, and above all these put on love, |
| 1:38.0 | which binds everything together in perfect harmony. |
| 1:42.3 | To love God is to pursue a life of wholehearted devotion to a king who is |
| 1:46.7 | wholeheartedly devoted to us. To love God is to place ourselves in this never-ending, blessed |
| 1:53.8 | cycle of giving and receiving limitless love. The simple truth that God simply wants our love frees us from frivolous pursuits. It frees |
| 2:05.1 | from systems and practices that are rooted in should rather than true desire. God will take us |
| 2:12.9 | however he can get us. He'll take us if all we have to give is a belief that we should serve him or be with him. |
| 2:21.7 | But he never desires to keep us in that place. |
| 2:25.8 | He longs to love each of us to such a level that we would live and serve him out of a place |
| 2:31.1 | of full devotion as the natural response to his overwhelming affections for us. |
| 2:37.9 | 1 John 416 says, so we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. |
| 2:44.9 | God is love, and whoever abides in love, abides in God, and God abides in Him. |
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