Tag: What the Bible says about loving people

Bible Verse of The Day – 4-18-16

Matthew 5:46 (NKJV) 46 For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

Loving people can be a challenge. Some people are very hard to love. Some even seem like they don’t want anyone to love them because of things they say and things that they do.

It’s easy to love those who love us back. It takes little or no effort to do this. But Jesus said that loving only the people who love us back isn’t really much of an accomplishment.

Loving the unlovable is a challenge. It’s hard to do consistently. But, it’s something that God wants each and every one of us to learn how to do.

Remember what else Jesus said?

Mark 2:17 (NKJV) 17 When Jesus heard it, He said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”

It’s the sick who need a doctor. On the same principle, it’s the unlovable who need the love of God to be displayed to them.

Love is an amazing thing. It can break down barriers that logic and intellect can’t even begin to touch.

Why? Because love touches people in a way that logic can never even begin to do. It melts the hearts that have become hard. It softens people in ways that no other words or works can soften them.

Jesus came and walked among men and women to teach us one thing. Love.

He showed us God’s love in everything He did. And He demonstrated His love by laying His life down for you and for me.

Now that is love like no other.

John 15:13 (NKJV) 13 Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.

Who will we love?

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808

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Bible Verse of The Day – 11-19-15

Ecclesiastes 3:1-2 (NKJV) 1 To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under heaven: 2 A time to be born, And a time to die; A time to plant, And a time to pluck what is planted;

Each one of us has a set time here on earth. We’re born, we live for a time and at some point we will take our last breath and be gone from here.

This is why it’s critical that we learn to make the most of each and every day we have here with our loved ones. We need to be careful that we’re not taking anyone for granted. And we need to give them the time, the love and the respect they deserve.

None of us knows when that day will come, for ourselves or for anyone else.

James 4:14 (NKJV) 14 whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.

And yet, most, if not all of us, are guilty of breezing through the days that we live and not loving our families enough.

We’re guilty of not spending time with the people that God has placed in our lives.

And we’re guilty of letting them slip away because we’re too busy with so many things that aren’t as important.

But here’s the thing. Today is a brand new day, and with each new day we have a new opportunity to start over and do our best to get it right.

So let’s let God show us where we’ve been lacking and where we might have been dropping the ball when it comes to loving, caring for and helping the people around us. And let’s make a change where God shows us we need to change.

He’s merciful and willing to give us another try. We just have to want to 🙂

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808

401-315-0902

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Bible Verse of The Day – 6-5-15

1 John 4:8 (NKJV) 8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

I was in a local store this evening and I saw a man walking ahead of me. Something about this man irritated me.

I kept walking and got what I had gone there for, and as I walked toward the front of the store to pay for my things, I saw him again. Once more, I got very irritated and began to think things about him that were contrary to how God would want me to feel.

I heard the Holy Spirit say to me “Jesus died on the cross for him, as much as He died for you. I love him, therefore you need to love him too.”

Needless to say, my thoughts changed immediately and I repented for what I had been thinking.

We are called to love everyone. Even the unlovable. Even those who irritate us. Even those who disagree with us. And even those who do harm to us.

Loving others is probably one of the most difficult things we are called to do. What’s more, we are commanded to love others. It’s not optional.

John 13:34-35 (NKJV) 34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. 35 By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”

So, today, as you go through your routine and meet others wherever you are, remember that loving them is not something we are asked to do. It’s something we are required to do.

Love one another.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808

401-315-0902

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Bible Verse of The Day – 1-7-15

John 3:16 (NKJV) 16 “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”

That’s right. God so loved the world, not one of us is without love from our Father. He loves us all, each one of us, individually.

He loves us, and He loves the person that we look at as our enemy, the person that irritates us and picks at us. He does not love what they do to us, but He loves them and wants them to come to know Him and have everlasting life.

Through getting to know Him, their hearts will change. We can’t expect people to treat us right if they don’t know God and His love doesn’t live in them. They know nothing of His wisdom, His knowledge, His understanding, His grace, etc.

God loves the one that sits across the table at lunch time all alone with nobody to talk to. He loves the one that seems to always mess up and can’t ever seem to do their job right. He loves those that may seem like they are never going to change, always saying things to cause an uproar, etc.

God loves us all, and He sent His only begotten Son for each one of us, that as we believe in Him we will not perish, but have everlasting life.

It is the sick that need a physician.

Matthew 9:12 (NKJV) 12 When Jesus heard that, He said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.

Let’s go after the sick and bring them in to the Great Physician, Jesus Christ, that they may be healed and delivered. Amen.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808

401-315-0902

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