We Love God!

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

We are to love our neighbors as ourselves – and that standard of comparison, as ourselves , is often taken as an implicit command to love ourselves. On this view, the wording not only permits self-love but commands it; it not only sanctions self-esteem but reinforces its importance. On the face of it, however, self-love in Mark 12 is merely presupposed, not advocated. To read much of the contemporary literature, evangelical and otherwise, on self-esteem is to inhabit a domain a long way removed from the second great commandment.
D.A. Carson

The way I see it, there are two primary errors for the professing Christian called to be a minister for Christ. One is we do absolutely nothing. We’re lazy. We feel inadequate. We’re too busy with other things. The other error is we start serving and then quit. We’re discouraged. We’re unappreciated. We’re persecuted. We’re unsatisfied with the results. Either way we are not ministering and either way, regardless of the means, Satan has proved successful to decommission us from our Lord’s service. The first error is having no heart. The second error is losing heart.
Randy Smith

Bible – French Darby Psaumes Chapter 64:1-10.

Index: French Darby

 

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64:1 ¶ Écoute, ô Dieu! ma voix, quand je me plains; garde ma vie de la crainte de l’ennemi.

64:2 Cache-moi loin du conseil secret des méchants, et de la foule tumultueuse des ouvriers d’iniquité,

64:3 Qui ont aiguisé leur langue comme une épée, ajusté leur flèche, -une parole amère,

64:4 Pour tirer de leurs cachettes contre celui qui est intègre: soudain ils tirent sur lui, et ils ne craignent pas.

64:5 Ils s’affermissent dans de mauvaises choses, ils s’entretiennent ensemble pour cacher des pièges; ils disent: Qui le verra?

64:6 Ils méditent des méchancetés: Nous avons fini; la machination est ourdie. L’intérieur de chacun, et le coeur, est profond.

64:7 ¶ Mais Dieu tirera sa flèche contre eux: soudain ils sont blessés;

64:8 Et leur langue les fera tomber les uns par-dessus les autres; tous ceux qui les voient s’enfuiront.

64:9 Et tous les hommes craindront, et ils raconteront les actes de Dieu, et considéreront son oeuvre.

64:10 Le juste se réjouira en l’Éternel et se confiera en lui, et tous ceux qui sont droits de coeur se glorifieront.