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Thursday, July 28, 2011

Uhm. Hi!

It has been FOREVER since I posted last. Like, almost a month. Craziness!

I was just reading, the Bible, and a verse really stuck out to me and I was like "I should write this down in my notebook or something" and then I was like "HEY! I should BLOG it! Because I haven't blogged in forever!"

So I was reading in 1 John 3:11-24 (I'll post it. Don't feel like you have to read it, but if you WANT to, GO for it! :)

¹¹ This is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another. ¹² Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother’s were righteous. ¹³ Do not be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you. ¹⁴ We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. Anyone who does not love remains in death. ¹⁵ Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life in him.

¹⁶ This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. ¹⁷ If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? ¹⁸ Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. ¹⁹ This then is how we know that we belong to the truth, and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence ²⁰ whenever our hearts condemn us. For God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.

²¹ Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God ²² and receive from him anything we ask, because we obey his commands and do what pleases him. ²³ And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us. ²⁴ Those who obey his commands live in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.

The verse that REALLY stuck out to me was verse 18. "Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth."

I just want to live that out today. I want to love with my actions and in truth.

That's all. :)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: Oh goodness, Abby... I've really been hanging out with verses 16-18 lately :). I love that passage! Thank you sooo much for sharing ;); September 1, 2011 at 5:29 PM

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About The 100 Day Challenge/100 Days Of Holiness

During 100 Days Of Holiness the participant wears a blue cloth around their wrist or on their clothing or on their ankle (like my sister does...). The blue cloth basically represents Jesus. In the Old Testament, the Hebrew people wore a strip of blue cloth on their clothing to remind them of God's commands. I was curious, so I went on BibleGateway.com and looked up "blue cloth" and didn't find anything, then saw "blue cord" in the suggested searches and clicked on that. It took me to Numbers 15:38-39³⁸ "Speak to the Israelites and say to them: 'Throughout the generations to come you are to make tassels on the corners of your garments, with a blue cord on each tassel. ³⁹ You will have these tassels to look at and so you will remember all the commands of the LORD.

We are wearing these blue cords to remind us that God is with us. We're trying to treat everyone how Jesus would treat them. No hate, no spite, just love.

We're not doing this for ourselves either. This is to change other people's lives.

If you want more information or the archived devotionals, you can head over to http://100daysofholiness.com