LOVE is one of the most used words and one of the least understood words.

At least I think so.

What do we really mean, when we say that we love someone?

How do we define love?

Love is not obligatory. We are commanded to love.

The first and greatest commandment:

Matthew 22:37

The Lord Jesus Christ commanded to love the Lord our God. He commanded to love with all our heart, with all our soul and with all our mind.

And the second is like it:

Matthew 22:39

The Lord Jesus Christ commanded also to love our neighbor as ourself.

At the present time I am reading the book RENEWED DAY BY DAY,  a daily devotional, by A. W. Tozer and I am learning more about love.

A. W. Tozer says that we can describe love, but we cannot define love. He says “that love can only be understood by the feeling of it.”

He says also that the love of God “can never be explained by the intellect and can only be known by the heart, the innermost being.”

"I still close my eyes and go home - I can always draw from that."
I am finding that quote by Dolly Parton in an old 
Reader's Digest.(October 2008)
I have never had an earthly home.
I was born in 1940 in the east of Germany and I had to flee and ended up in the north of Germany near the 
danish border. (Schleswig - Holstein) 
But I have a heavenly home. In a very old book called 
GOOD IN EVERYTHING by H. L. Gee I find what Earl 
Baldwin said: "In the remote parts of the countryside 
old people still say of those who die, They have gone home."
I have never known my earthly father. My father fought in the war and did not 
come back. We don't even know where he died.
But I know my heavenly Father, the Lord Jesus Christ.
In the same book GOOD IN EVERYTHING I read also what Rev. William J. May said: "In a quiet churchyard in Sussex is a simple grave which bears this lovely 
inscription: Gone home with a Friend."
I close my eyes and go to my heavenly home. I can always draw from that. But 
not only that. I open my BIBLE and read about my heavenly home!

“Life is like a mirror. If you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.” –

Coffee News Vol 142:2

“Tick off each day that you read.”

I am reading that in the Far North District Libraries Summer Reading Activity Book.

The Activity Book encourages young readers not to stop reading in the holidays. It encourages young readers to use their “reading muscles every day,” to be strong readers, and to “read everywhere.”

Can I encourage you to tick off each day on the calendar that you read the Bible?

“Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.” – Matthew 24:35

Today I learned more about the LITTLE DUTIES. About the daily round. 

I am very much interested in the little duties. You probably too.

Some time ago I learned this about the little duties: “LIfe is full of little duties. Worrying about them, grumbling about them, dwelling apon them makes the duties shackles which bind us, but just doing the duties makes them wings.” – Anonymous 

There is a shop in the town where I live, (Kaitaia/NZ) where you can buy lawnmowers you can ride on. The mowers are displayed outside in front of the shop, and there are many.

Today I passed the shop at the time in the evening when someone pushed the mowers back to safety into the shop, and do you know what the reply of the young man was, when I mentioned the little duties, the daily round? He said, “THAT IS MY GYM WORK.”

What is ATTITUDE?

According to The Collins Concise Dictionary Attitude is “the way a person views something or tends to behave towards it, often in an evaluative way.”

“That is my Gym Work.” That is the right attitude. I have learned something! 

“Stevens

the heart of your home”

That’s what it says on the plastic bag I find in our bedroom. “RECYCABLE” is also written on both sides. And of course the website.

Typing the website into Google I find that Stephens are “The Kitchen Specialists.”

When I read all that I asked myself, “What is the most central part of my home?” “What is the heart of my home?”

I want the Lord Jesus Christ to be the heart of my home. I want the Lord Jesus Christ to be  the central part of my home.

I think we have so much domestic violence because the Lord Jesus Christ is not the central part, the heart of our homes.

I am reading now “GOD’S LITTLE DEVOTIONAL BOOK.”

Honor Books Tulsa, Oklahoma

No author is mentioned.

Inspiration/Motivational/Devotional

Another book I really enjoy reading!

The word collision is not a nice word. Crashes, car crashes are coming to my mind, when I hear the word. But a collision is also “the conflict of opposed ideas, wishes, attitudes, etc.”, according to The Concise Collins Dictionary.

We are opposed to God. The truth about man is that he is not only separated from God, but he hates God. We by nature, as we are born into this world, fight against God. We are enemies of God. Our minds are alienated from God. We are striving against our creator.

We are on a collision course with God. When did this collision course start? It started with the Fall in the Garden of Eden. We are sinners.

I am emphasising the collision course because we are hearing so much about the repairs, the restoration, the healing of the broken relationship. We are hearing so much about grace.

Dr Lloyd – Jones is well known to evangelicals, and while in London many years ago it was my privilege to hear him preach at Westminster Chapel, and this is what he says in one of his books: 

“IT IS BECAUSE MAN HAS AN INADEQUATE CONCEPTION OF SIN THAT HE HAS AN INADEQUATE CONCEPTION OF THE GRACE OF GOD.”