Hello, friends. From today onwards, I will be posting my blog every evening, rather than every morning. This should release me from the daily conflict between wanting to pray, and the pressure to publish each day’s blog as early as possible. I hope it will also prove helpful for early risers to find the day’s blog in their email in-box as soon as they wake up, rather than having to wait for its arrival.
✝️ With love and thanks to all who visit and follow here, from Ruth xxxxxx
O Lord, you are our God (2 Chronicles 14:11; NLT).
Yahweh: Our Godhead,
Beyond time and space;
Christ: God incarnate,
The Lord’s human face;
Spirit: God’s presence,
Infallible grace –
Lord: you are Love,
May all know your embrace.
So he returned home to his father. And while he was still a long way off, his father saw him coming. Filled with love and compassion, he ran to his son, embraced him, and kissed him* (Luke 15:20; NLT).
References
Verse 1:
The LORD our God, the LORD is one (Deuteronomy 6:4; NIV).
For you, a thousand years are as a passing day, as brief as a few night hours (Psalm 90:4; NLT).
God looks down from heaven on the entire human race (Psalm 53:2; NLT).
God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end (Ecclesiastes 3:11; NLT).
Verse 2:
In him [Christ] is embodied all the fulness of the Godhead (Colossians 2:10; LB).
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth (John 1:14; NIV).
Christ is the visible image of the invisible God (Colossians 1:15; NLT).
The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being (Hebrews 1:3; NIV).
For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face (1 Corinthians 13:12; NIV).
Verse 3:
I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever – the Spirit of Truth (John 14:16; NIV).
I can never escape from your Spirit! I can never get away from your presence! (Psalm 139:7; NLT).
God is Spirit (John 4:24; NLT).
The Spirit is truth (1 John 5:6; NKJV).
I will pour out a spirit of grace and prayer on the family ofDavid and on the people of Jerusalem (Zechariah 12:10; NLT).
Verse 4:
God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them (1 John 4:16; NLT).
Note:
*This verse is taken from the parable of the prodigal son. If you would like to read the whole parable, it can be found in any Bible translation: Luke 15:11-32.