JESUS LOVES ME

Jesus loves me! This I know

For the Bible tells me so.

Little ones to Him belong,

They are weak, but He is strong.

Yes, Jesus loves me.  Yes, Jesus loves me.

Yes, Jesus loves me.  The Bible tells me so.

 

There are very few truths you need beyond this profound, lifechanging promise.  Sisters Anna and Susan Warner wrote a book in the early 1800s that told a story of a dying boy's Sunday School teacher singing to him these words in his last days.  Hymnwriter William Bradbury read this book and penned the words to the song we sing today.  The sweet sisters, who struggled with trials all their lives, stayed faithful to God's word, teaching Bible classes for cadets at West Point, because they knew God's love would carry them through and was sufficient for their every need.

 

We are in a perplexing time...even today as the Goverment leaders are so divided as to who is really in charge.  But we can know - through God's word - that His love is sufficient for our every need.  He is still on the throne, still holding the universe in place, still holding out His word for us to be instructed by, and still empowering those who have the indwelling Holy Spirit.  We must pray for our leaders to do the right thing.

 

God loves us because that is His character.  He says in John 13:34: "As I have loved you, so you must love one another".  Are we loving our brothers and sisters...is our character looking more like His...does His love for us compel us to do the right thing?  Maybe we need to go back to the songs we learned a long time ago to give us the confidence to live for Him today.

 

For further study:  Deu. 7:7-9, Psalm 32:10, Jeremiah 31:3, Lamentations 3:22, John 3:16, John 15:13, Romans 5:5, 8; Romans 8:37-39,  2 Cor. 5:14, Galatians 2:20, Ephesians 2:4-5, 3:17-19, 2 Thes. 2:16-17, 1 John 4:7-21.

 

Be blessed in your understanding of God's word.

 

Love,

Holly