We claim others to be our everything.

That’s God’s roll.

Mark 12:30 (KJV) – and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.

Have a passion of love for others.

It covers a multitude of sins.

I Peter 4:8 (KJV) – and above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

God loves you enough to accept you where you are.

But loves you too much to leave you there.

Accept the chastisement of the Lord because He loves you.

Proverbs 3:11-12 (KJV) – my son, despise not the chasetening of the Lord; neither be weary of his correction: for whom the Lord loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

When you’re disapproved of for Christ, they think they are speaking evil of Christ.

Don’t be mad, God is being glorified on your behalf.

I Peter 4:14 (KJV) – if ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part, he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.

Always look for peace, do good, and avoid evil.

I Peter 3:11 (KJV) – let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.

When you notice those in need, give.

You will be blessed.

Proverbs 22:9 (KJV) – he that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.

When you give evil for evil, the consequences are unchanging.

When you give good for evil, you receive blessings.

I Peter 3:9 (KJV) – not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.

People say all the time, they want to change.

Renew your mind . . . .

Ephesians 4:23-24 (KJV) – and be renewed in the spirit of your mind: and that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteouness and true holiness.

You have been given grace.

It’s God’s gift to you.

Pay it forward.

Ephesians 4:7 (KJV) – but unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

It is better to have not known the word of God than to know it and turned from it.

Why . . . your latter days will be worse than your former days.

II Peter 2:20-21 (KJV) – for if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.