We Love God!

God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

Love is an essential part of the process of salvation. It is not optional whether you love one another. No one can say, “I am saved by faith regardless of whether I love people or not.” For the only faith which saves is “faith working through love” (Galatians 5:6). Saving faith always gives rise to love and love gives evidence of genuine faith.
John Piper

Among the Jews there suddenly turns up a man who goes about talking as if He was God… Now let us get this clear. Among Pantheists, like the Indians, anyone might say that he was a part of God, or one with God: there would be nothing very odd about it. But this man, since He was a Jew, could not mean that kind of god. God, in their language, meant the Being outside the world Who had made it and was infinitely different from anything else. And when you have grasped that, you will see that what this man said was, quite simply, the most shocking thing that has ever been uttered by human lips.
Unknown Author

Bible – chinese – 新标点和合本 诗篇 79

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求主解救国家
亚萨的诗。
 神啊,外邦人进入你的产业,
污秽你的圣殿,使耶路撒冷变成荒堆,
把你仆人的尸首交与天空的飞鸟为食,
把你圣民的肉交与地上的野兽,
耶路撒冷周围流他们的血如水,
无人葬埋。
我们成为邻国的羞辱,
成为我们四围人的嗤笑讥刺。
 
耶和华啊,这到几时呢?
你要动怒到永远吗?
你的愤恨要如火焚烧吗?
愿你将你的忿怒倒在那不认识你的外邦
和那不求告你名的国度。
因为他们吞了雅各
把他的住处变为荒场。
 
求你不要记念我们先祖的罪孽,向我们追讨;
愿你的慈悲快迎着我们,
因为我们落到极卑微的地步。
拯救我们的 神啊,求你因你名的荣耀帮助我们!
为你名的缘故搭救我们,赦免我们的罪。
10 为何容外邦人说「他们的 神在哪里」呢?
愿你使外邦人知道你在我们眼前
伸你仆人流血的冤。
 
11 愿被囚之人的叹息达到你面前;
愿你按你的大能力存留那些将要死的人。
12 主啊,愿你将我们邻邦所羞辱你的羞辱
加七倍归到他们身上。
13 这样,你的民,你草场的羊,
要称谢你,直到永远;
要述说赞美你的话,直到万代。