A Chosen Nation: Love (Nations #2)
This second instalment on God’s heart for the Nations shows us how God chose a nation for Himself, Israel. God uses some extraordinary language to describe them which in Christ is applied too who believe in Him.
God’s Unfailing Love
“All we need is love” so we are told but why is our experience of love such a contrast to the unfailing love of God?
Unexpected Blessing
The backdrop to this post is our recent news (see Newsletters) that we are expecting a 5th baby at the beginning of May. We learned this just after Christmas and suffice to say that it was quite a surprise especially given that Debbie was already around half way through! Questions about such as; Why us? Why now? Why not for others? How are we going to cope with five? We’ve been wrestling with this but feel like we are starting to get our heads…
Trusting the ‘God of love’
You may remember that in “The Potters right to transform the clay” I talked about three foundational truths about God; namely that He is completely Sovereign (He always wills what is best for us), He is infinitely wise (He always knows what is best for us), and He is perfect in love (He has the power to bring it about). The premise was that the implications of experiencing suffering would hit us on one or more of these things. At such times…