Live for Love
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 10 January 2021
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Today we’re going to look at what it means to live for love, to build our lives on the foundation of giving and receiving love. You and I were made in God’s image, and his very nature is love. So may he guide us into a deep discovery of who we are in him, and how we can live our lives filled with the passionate pursuit of love.
Our Scripture for today comes from Mark 12:30-31, and today's worship is You Keep On Getting Better by Maverick City Music.
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| 0:00.0 | In today's podcast, we're going to look at what it means to live for love, to put our lives |
| 0:10.0 | on the foundation of giving and receiving love. |
| 0:13.9 | You and I were made in God's image, and his very nature is love. |
| 0:19.3 | So may he guide us into a deep discovery of who we are in him, |
| 0:23.8 | and how we can live our lives filled with the passionate pursuit of love. |
| 0:28.8 | Welcome to the First of Teen podcast. Our scripture for today comes from Mark 12, 30 through 31. |
| 0:50.3 | God's word says, |
| 0:53.3 | And you shall love the Lord your God, with all your heart and with all your soul, |
| 0:58.0 | and with all your mind and with all your strength. And the second is this, you shall love your neighbor as yourself. |
| 1:06.0 | There is no other commandment greater than these. |
| 1:12.6 | If there is one major theme in the narrative of Scripture, it's the power of God's love. |
| 1:19.6 | It was His love that caused our creation. |
| 1:23.6 | It was in love that He offered mankind grace, even in our continual rebellion. |
| 1:30.3 | It was His love that sent Jesus to rescue us. |
| 1:33.3 | And it's His love that will win at our final redemption, |
| 1:38.3 | the gathering of all of God's people for the Great Wedding Feast. |
| 1:43.3 | God is love. He can do nothing apart from love. Jesus says |
| 1:49.7 | in Mark 12, 30 through 31, that all of the commandments are summed up for us in one word, love. |
| 1:57.9 | You were created to be loved by God and to love him and others in return. And you will |
| 2:04.7 | never find satisfaction until you rest in the unconditional love of your Heavenly Father. You |
| 2:11.6 | will never find true purpose until you live to love God and others. To live for love is to step outside of the ways and |
| 2:21.9 | cares of this world and live for the kingdom of God. It's to choose to root yourself in the unconditional |
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