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Thankfully, when God says live that you may glorify your Father in heaven, He is not expecting perfection, but He is seeking those who will seek Him and in doing that display His glory.

Looking at seven attributes of God’s love and the perseverance of Christ, causes you to wonder, and decide whether that isn’t everything you need forever.

When life is cheapened because insecurity rises so high it must silence what it fears, we are at war. When we choose hate over love, antagonism over peace, vitriol over freedom, we are at war.

Holding on and living beyond the waiting that we used to have patience for, is hope. Holding on when we feel our loss so deeply, is trust. Holding on when we don’t see what we hope for but we still carry a seed in our heart, is faith.

We need to choose to be concerned for one another. If we have a conversation with another and something comes to our attention for a need they have, that is our cue to help them, to show love and to do good; to invest in their cause.

What does being a child of the light and day mean? It means to stand in faith and identify with whatever celebrates life in God.

This is a reminder that time spent with God is to go near to listen. Not to make rash statements or to hastily peel off all the restless things in our heart.

Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. Bless and do not curse. 

All that we go through will be edged with gold. All that we’ve lost will be given back with more. All that we endure patiently, will blossom in the day despite the limitations of the night.

With endurance, comes patience. With resilience, comes gentleness. With weathering, comes a greater ability to stand.

Whether our life is as we would like, or whether we persevere through trials, we are cautioned in the bible to keep ourselves without fault, to shine like stars in the darkness, not to blend in or try to hide in the darkness.

It is wise to understand God’s will. Knowing the will of God is to know we have an everlasting relationship with God.

After ruin, wounding, and dryness; of hopelessness, craving and desperation; the gentle, yet saturating rain of God’s Spirit brings incomparable healing. It’s ongoing; it comes in layers as I'm able to receive.

It's a funny thing that the human soul can easily feel like an orphan. Loss of anything significant can foster that orphan identity.

When the bible talks about incomparable riches, it isn’t talking about material benefits. That’s why it’s incomparable. We can compare material riches. What we can’t compare is the incomparable benefits of knowing Him.

What I choose to do with my day is up to me. How will I decide what needs to be fulfilled? I may not always see the significance where the real significance is.

Compassion is at the heart of a giver. Understanding, insight and selflessness are what develops the character of a giver.

If I am restless, anxious, agitated, if I’m allowing thoughts to rule me, if I’m being thoughtless or careless, I know I’m not quiet enough to be responsive to the calm, peaceful, direct knowledge of the Holy Spirit in me, gifted to me.

If you have a cluster of grapes, and you find some bad grapes amongst the good grapes, do you throw the whole cluster away? The good grapes need to be saved because blessing can still be found from those.

Partial truth is no truth at all. Truths are foundational principles, that stabilise life and society. To believe that we need “consensus over truth”, as was posited by the head of an influential news outlet in the United States in 2025, opposes truth itself, is misleading, and destabilising.