To Know and To Love
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· 5 views"Let us go on to know Him and to love Him more dearly; not for His gifts and benefits but for the pure joy of His presence. Thus we will fulfill the purpose for which He created us and redeemed us!"
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WHERE GOD IS TO BE FOUND
The place whereon thou standest is holy ground.
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There are some things in life which you do not have to seek. You do not have to seek the sun. It seeks you out and is there waiting for you when you waken in the morning. You do not have to seek for the air. It seeks you out, and filters through the fine filaments of your lungs without your being so much as aware of it.
This is true likewise of God. You do not have to seek Him out: He seeks you. To Job’s pathetic outburst “Oh, that I knew where I might find him!” () the Bible returns the answer: “He [is] not far from every one of us: for in him we live, and move, and have our being” (). When we are told, as we sometimes are in Scripture, to seek the Lord, this does not imply that by our searching we can discover Him, but simply that we may be ready, as was Moses, for the divine disclosure.
Where is God to be found? Precisely where you are at this point in time and space. That is the truth which emerges from our text.
Ian MacPherson, Usable Outlines and Illustrations, Dollar Sermon Library Series (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1976), 31.
We are needy man and women with so many needs, and many are unmet at times:
three God-given inner needs—the need for love, for significance, and for security.
three God-given inner needs—the need for love, for significance, and for security.
"We are all created with three God-given inner needs—the need for love, for significance, and for security. These needs can be translated into the need to feel heard and understood, to feel encouraged and at peace, to feel affirmed and accepted, to feel confident and courageous. Or these needs can be negatively translated into the need to feel superior. Unmet needs can become the driving force behind why we act the way we act when we are faced with a conflict.
however,
“His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.”()
“His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.”()
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the dimension of humans that warrants needs: physical, social, emotional, and spiritual (unifier that integrates and transcends the others)
the dimension of humans that warrants needs: physical, social, emotional, and spiritual (unifier that integrates and transcends the others)
Maybe this gives us an important starting point indicating, as it does, that the spiritual nature of Man is the total personality which links aspects together, and is expressed through relationships, personal practices and beliefs (Laburn, 1988). The spiritual dimension has also been described as a ‘unifying force that integrates and transcends the physical, emotional and social dimensions’. It enables the search for meaning in life and provides a common bond between individuals—an essential ingredient for any relationship (Socken and Carson, 1987).
David J. Stoter, Spiritual Aspects of Health Care
Key points • Holistic care includes responding to physical, social, emotional and spiritual need.• The first three of these receive much attention but the spiritual dimension is often overlooked or misunderstood.
Key points • Holistic care includes responding to physical, social, emotional and spiritual need.• The first three of these receive much attention but the spiritual dimension is often overlooked or misunderstood.
• Holistic care includes responding to physical, social, emotional and spiritual need.
• The first three of these receive much attention but the spiritual dimension is often overlooked or misunderstood.
• It is important to define spiritual need and to distinguish it from religious need.
• Spiritual need is universal in the human race.
• Spiritual need is influenced by the whole range of life’s experiences, cultural and personal.
Maslow put it in this perspective: He observes that upon fulfillment of the physical needs, people seek their safety needs. And upon satisfaction of that safety need, they seek belongingness, then self-esteem, and finally self-actualization. Maslow calls this the need hierarchy.
“The God who has revealed Himself to needy men and women wants us to know that when we have Him, we have everything—we have all the rest!” (Tozier)
So don’t worry,
seek: means to go after; to strive; to pursue; to desire; to aim at; to search for; to endeavor to get
seek: means to go after; to strive; to pursue; to desire; to aim at; to search for; to endeavor to get
(1) First Pursuit of life: seek to become a citizen of God’s kingdom, and seek others too
(1) First Pursuit of life: seek to become a citizen of God’s kingdom, and seek others too
(2) Seek after God’s righteousness for you and for others
(2) Seek after God’s righteousness for you and for others(put your hand to the plow, leave the results to God)
(2) Seek after God’s righteousness for you and for others(put your hand to the plow, leave the results to God)
Your failures are temporary. God will help, strength and teach you through the trying times, He will work things out for your good ()
Your failures are temporary. God will help, strength and teach you through the trying times, He will work things out for your good ()
God will see to it that the necessities of life are given to you, You are made a spiritual being, the world and the things of the world will not satisfy you.
God will see to it that the necessities of life are given to you, You are made a spiritual being, the world and the things of the world will not satisfy you.
You are made a spiritual being, the world and the things of the world will not satisfy you.
God has much better things in store for you, (NKJV) 11For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope .
God has much better things in store for you, (NKJV) 11For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope .
(NKJV) 6But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
(NKJV) 6But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
11For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.
6But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.