We Love God!

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

Perhaps most of all, our children need to hear that we love them. And why do we love them? Simply because they are our children. Period! They do not earn our love, nor can they lose our love regardless of what they do. This is modeling the divine love of God. Why does He love us? Because He chooses to do so. The love is unconditional and not based on our performance. And the Bible says the only reason we love Him is because He first loves us (1 Jn. 4:19). And how did He show that loved? Through His own sacrifice. “In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins” (1 John 4:10). Children can easily see where your priorities are and where your love is directed.
Randy Smith

The main trouble with the Christian Church today is that she is too much like a clinic, too much like a hospital; that is why the great world is going to hell outside!... Look at the great campaign, look at it objectively, look at it from God’s standpoint. Forget yourself and your temporary troubles and ills for the moment; fight in the army. It is not a clinic you need; you must realize that we are in a barracks, and that we are involved in a mighty campaign.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Latin Vulgate Proverbs Chapter 20:1-30.

Index: Latin Vulgate

 

Proverbs 20

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20:1 luxuriosa res vinum et tumultuosa ebrietas quicumque his delectatur non erit sapiens

20:2 sicut rugitus leonis ita terror regis qui provocat eum peccat in animam suam

20:3 honor est homini qui separat se a contentionibus omnes autem stulti miscentur contumeliis

20:4 propter frigus piger arare noluit mendicabit ergo aestate et non dabitur ei

20:5 sicut aqua profunda sic consilium in corde viri sed homo sapiens exhauriet illud

20:6 multi homines misericordes vocantur virum autem fidelem quis inveniet

20:7 iustus qui ambulat in simplicitate sua beatos post se filios derelinquet

20:8 rex qui sedet in solio iudicii dissipat omne malum intuitu suo

20:9 quis potest dicere mundum est cor meum purus sum a peccato

20:10 pondus et pondus mensura et mensura utrumque abominabile est apud Deum

20:11 ex studiis suis intellegitur puer si munda et si recta sint opera eius

20:12 aurem audientem et oculum videntem Dominus fecit utrumque

20:13 noli diligere somnum ne te egestas opprimat aperi oculos tuos et saturare panibus

20:14 malum est malum est dicit omnis emptor et cum recesserit tunc gloriabitur

20:15 est aurum et multitudo gemmarum vas autem pretiosum labia scientiae

20:16 tolle vestimentum eius qui fideiussor extitit alieni et pro extraneis aufer pignus ab eo

20:17 suavis est homini panis mendacii et postea implebitur os eius calculo

20:18 cogitationes consiliis roborantur et gubernaculis tractanda sunt bella

20:19 ei qui revelat mysteria et ambulat fraudulenter et dilatat labia sua ne commiscearis

20:20 qui maledicit patri suo et matri extinguetur lucerna eius in mediis tenebris

20:21 hereditas ad quam festinatur in principio in novissimo benedictione carebit

20:22 ne dicas reddam malum expecta Dominum et liberabit te

20:23 abominatio est apud Deum pondus et pondus statera dolosa non est bona

20:24 a Domino diriguntur gressus viri quis autem hominum intellegere potest viam suam

20:25 ruina est hominis devorare sanctos et post vota tractare

20:26 dissipat impios rex sapiens et curvat super eos fornicem

20:27 lucerna Domini spiraculum hominis quae investigat omnia secreta ventris

20:28 misericordia et veritas custodiunt regem et roboratur clementia thronus eius

20:29 exultatio iuvenum fortitudo eorum et dignitas senum canities

20:30 livor vulneris absterget mala et plagae in secretioribus ventris