Is God’s Love Conditional?

Solid Joys Daily Devotional

Desiring God

Joy, Unknown, Devotional, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Daily Devotional, 163859, Religion & Spirituality, Solid Joys, Jesus, John Piper

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🗓️ 7 November 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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There are precious experiences of the love of God that require that we fight pride, seek humility, and cherish the nearness of God.

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0:00.0	November 7, is God's love conditional?
0:07.2	God gives more grace.
0:10.0	Therefore it says, God opposes the proud,
0:15.1	but gives grace to the humble.
0:18.2	Submit yourselves, therefore, to God,
0:20.6	resist the devil, and he will flee from you,
0:23.6	draw near to God, and he will draw near to you.
0:28.6	James 4, 6 through 8.
0:31.7	James teaches us that there is a precious experience
0:35.8	of more grace, and God drawing near to us.
0:42.6	Surely this is a wonderful experience, more grace,
0:48.7	and a special nearness of God.
0:52.3	But I ask, is this experience of the love of God
0:58.2	unconditional?
1:00.7	No, it is not.
1:03.6	It is conditional on our humbling ourselves,
1:08.5	and our drawing near to God.
1:11.6	God gives more grace to the humble,
1:16.6	draw near to God, and he will draw near to you.
1:22.0	There are precious experiences of the love of God
1:26.8	that require that we fight pride, seek humility,
1:32.4	and cherish the nearness of God.
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