{"id":3901,"date":"2019-11-22T12:01:50","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T17:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/?p=3901"},"modified":"2019-11-22T12:01:50","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T17:01:50","slug":"true-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/22\/true-love\/","title":{"rendered":"True Love"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\" Artist Elizabeth Wang<\/p>\n

Oh, how He loves us\u2026
\nHe loves us even when we reject him
\nHe loves us even while we spit on him, mock him, drag him through the streets naked,
\nAnd kill him\u2026
\nHe loves us even though we kill each other in times of peace and in times of war
\nHe loves us when we worship other gods committing adultery against him
\nHe loves us while we murder babies, destroy animals and live in perversion and hate
\nHe loves us even though we praise him with our lips but our hearts are far from him\u2026
\nOh, how he loves us\u2026even to this day and time\u2026he loves us still\u2026
\nHe loves us when we slander each other and take each other to court, thriving on revenge
\nWhile we torture one another and force all kinds of debauchery and death\u2026
\nGod still loves us\u2026
\nHe loves us when we call evil good and good evil
\nHe loves us when we lie and accuse one another\u2026He loves us when we cheat and steal and forget him\u2026
\nHe loves us when we say he doesn\u2019t exist\u2026
\nHe loves us when we are greedy and lazy\u2026
\nWhen we sell our bodies and when we sell our souls to the highest bidder\u2026for fame and fortune
\nGod loves us\u2026
\nWhen we cheat on business deals\u2026when we curse and live in filth\u2026when we abuse our bodies with drugs and persuade others to follow us into the cesspool of darkness\u2026He loves us when guilt and shame keep us bound chained to despair and succumb to murder\u2026
\nHe loves us when we beg in the streets and use children in all kinds of perversion\u2026
\nHe even loves us when we use His name in vain\u2026
\nWhen we disrespect parents and complain unceasingly \u2026
\nHe loves us too much to leave us in these conditions\u2026
\nBut will we Love Him?
\nHe doesn\u2019t love that we do all these things but he loves us in spite of our sin and recklessness\u2026he loves us so much that he gives us a way out\u2026
\nThat way is his Son\u2026who came to this earth\u2026and is with us even today\u2026
\nRight where you are this very minute\u2026
\nGod the Holy Spirit, is telling you right now, that He loves you\u2026it\u2019s not to late to come to him no matter where you are or what you\u2019ve done\u2026he\u2019s asking you to let go of pride and love him\u2026by accepting him as the person who will take you just as you are\u2026he\u2019ll clean you up\u2026and wash you\u2026and bring you into His family and call you son, daughter. He\u2019ll give you his signet ring, wrap you in a royal robe\u2026He\u2019ll prepare a feast for you and dance with joy that his child has come home. The angels will sing and celebrate like crazy just for you\u2026maybe you\u2019ve never been loved and don\u2019t know what love is\u2026I\u2019m telling you He loves you\u2026OH HOW HE LOVES YOU!
\nGod will wipe away every atrocity and it will be remembered no more\u2026All because He loves You!!! Because God is Love!
\nGod is holy and just\u2026he is merciful and kind\u2026He loves us so much that he gave us a free will\u2026he will not force us to love him back\u2026it\u2019s our choice\u2026
\nThere will always be trials in this life\u2026there will be wars and rumors of war\u2026there will be pestilence and plagues. There will be hate and abuse. We will go through deep sorrow and tragedy. God never intended life to be this way\u2026God has an enemy\u2026he\u2019s been there from the very beginning and he is ruthless, strategic, a liar and cannot love\u2026
\nWe have two choices there is no middle ground\u2026
\nWe are either for the LORD or against him\u2026
\nHe will love us no matter what\u2026but there is only one way to Him\u2026
\nAnd that is through his Son Jesus Christ the anointed son of God! (Yeshua)
\nWe will either choose life or death\u2026
\nLove or hate\u2026
\nI pray we choose love!<\/h6>\n

~Marla Shaw O’Neill November 22, 2019<\/h6>\n
\nJohn 3:16-18 The Message (MSG) <\/em><\/strong>\u201cThis is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. God didn\u2019t go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again. Anyone who trusts in him is acquitted; anyone who refuses to trust him has long since been under the death sentence without knowing it. And why? Because of that person\u2019s failure to believe in the one-of-a-kind Son of God when introduced to him.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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