What is Love to Christ?

Love shows the true character of a man, according to the object which he loves more than anything else: for as is the love, so is the man. According to his love, so might you confidently designate the man. If he is a lover of honour, he is an ambitious man; a lover of pleasure, a sensual man; and if he chiefly love the world, he is a covetous man. If a man loves righteousness, he is a religious man; if the things above, a heavenly-minded man; and if he love Christ with a pre-eminent love, he is a sincere man: "Rightly do they love you.," Song of Songs 1:4.

If Christ has our love, he has our all; and Christ never has what he deserves from us, till he has our love. True love withholds nothing from Christ, when it is sincerely set upon him. If we actually love him, he will have our time, and he will have our service, and he will have the use of all our resources, and gifts, and graces; indeed, then he shall have our possessions, freedom, and our very lives, whenever he calls for them. In the same way, when God loves any of us, he will withhold nothing from us that is good for us. He does not hold back his own only begotten Son, Rom.8:32. When Christ loves us, he gives us everything we need-- his merits to justify us, his Spirit to sanctify us, his grace to adorn us, and his glory to crown us. Therefore, when any of us love Christ sincerely, we lay everything down at his feet, and give up all to be at his command and service: "And they loved not their lives unto the death," Rev. 12:11.

---by Thomas Doolitle

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DID YOU KNOW THESE FACTS?
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Death is certain but the Bible speaks about untimely death!
Make a personal reflection about this.....

Very interesting, read until the end.....

It is written in the Bible (Galatians 6:7): 'Be not deceived; God is not mocked:for whatsoever a man sow, that shall he also reap.

Here are some men and women who mocked God :

John Lennon (Singer):

Some years before, during his interview with an American Magazine, he said: 'Christianity will end, it will disappear. I do not have to argue about that. I am certain. Jesus was ok, but his subjects were too simple, today we are more famous than Him' (1966).

Lennon, after saying that the Beatles were more famous than Jesus Christ, was shot six times.

Tancredo Neves (President of Brazil ):

During the Presidential campaign, he said if he got 500,000 votes from his party, not even God would remove him from Presidency.

Sure he got the votes, but he got sick a day before being made President, then he died

Cazuza (Bi-sexual Brazilian composer, singer and poet):
During A show in Canecio ( Rio de Janeiro ),

while smoking his cigarette, he puffed out some smoke into the air and said:'God, that's for you.'

He died at the age of 32 of LUNG CANCER in a horrible manner.

The man who built the Titanic
After the construction of Titanic, a reporter asked him how safe the Titanic would be. With an ironic tone he said: 'Not even God can sink it'

The result:I think you all know what happened to the Titanic

Marilyn Monroe (Actress)
She was visited by Billy Graham during a presentation of a show. He said the Spirit of God had sent him to preach to her. After hearing what the Preacher had to say, she said:

'I don't need your Jesus'. A week later, she was found dead in her apartment

Bon Scott (Singer)
The ex-vocalist of the AC/DC. On one of his 1979 songs he sang: 'Don't stop me; I'm going down all the way, down the highway to hell'.

On the 19th of February 1980, Bon Scott was found dead, he had been choked by his own vomit.

Campinas (IN 2005)

In Campinas , Brazil a group of friends, drunk, went to pick up a friend...The mother accompanied her to the car and was so worried about the drunkenness of her friends and she said to the daughter holding her hand, who was already seated in the car: 'My Daughter, Go With God And May He Protect You.'

She responded: 'Only If He (God) Travels In The Trunk, Cause Inside Here.....It' s Already Full.

Hours later, news came by that they had been involved in a fatal accident, everyone had died,

the car could not be recognized what type of car it had been, but surprisingly, the trunk was intact. The police said there was no way the trunk could have remained intact. To their surprise, inside the trunk was a crate of eggs, none was broken.

Christine Hewitt (Jamaican Journalist and entertainer) said the Bible (Word of God) was the worst book ever written. In June 2006 she was found burnt beyond recognition in her motor vehicle.

Many more important people have forgotten that there is no other name that was given so much authority as the name of Jesus. Many have died, but only Jesus died and rose again, and he is still alive.

I have done my part, Jesus said. 'If you are embarrassed about me, I will also be embarrassed about you before my father.'

the HUMBLE GOD

do you want to know how humble our GOD is? yes, i am referring to JESUS CHRIST, but first allow me to discuss some point about GOD in HEAVEN, of who HE is and whatHE is...and how HE give up his being GOD just for us.

1. The Son Superior to Angels (Hebrews 1:1-2)

2. Though we know that Jesus was the Word in Heaven. But when HE came down to earth and lived with us HE humbles himself by honoring his FATHER. (John 14:28)

why do you think Jesus would do this? if HE is the GOD, and the FATHER and HIM are one(John 6:46)...why would HE do these things? simple he wants to be an example for us.

3. so that we may be worthy to face our GOD the FATHER, we must be like Jesus.(Philippians 2:5-6)

we might asked on low did Jesus give up HIS being GOD in HEAVEN. he was even lower compared to the angels in HEAVEN. (Hebrews 2:9) which is contradicting to our point #1. being the CREATOR of all things here on earth and in heaven. he dared to left his crown and glory behind just for us.
now, my question to you. how would you feel if you are a king in your place then suddenly somebody would ask you to step down from your throne and be a beggar. can you dare to do that? i guess not.
GOD did not portray HIS majesty and being a powerful BEING through his enormous powers and strength but by the love in the spirit. ( Colossians 1:8) that through this we may be like GOD, Jesus Christ. (Philippians 2:5-6)
when HE gave up a part of HIS being GOD, HE humbles himself by telling us that HE can no longer DO nothing without the help of GOD the FATHER. (John 5:19) being a powerless individual just like us humans, Jesus Christ was dependent through his FATHER. for the past 30years in his stay in his life being a merely simple person. (Isaiah 53:1-5)
he was tempted and suffered a lot, like what we have experienced in our everyday life. i believe Jesus suffered from hunger too...and all the cruelty in this world. and maybe he was judged through HIS appearance for being a not loving physical appearance. just imagine a beggar on the streets that we didn't bother to care or focus our attention to them. don't you think you can bear those hardships in life? i myself couldn't bear it.
despite of all these things Jesus Christ remain the ONLY perfect person who ever live in this whole planet. that maybe impossible, right? yes, i agree.
do want to know what made HIM perfect for the past 30 years in HIS life?
simple, because of his LOVE for his FATHER that HE dear HIM so much, HE just followed what his FATHER told HIM what to do. (John 8:28) which i believed if we want to be pleasing in the eye of our LOVING FATHER, whether our biological father or our HEAVENLY FATHER, we only have to obey his WILL.( John 14:31) the question is, can we DO this? my answer is YES...if we love a person we cannot afford to hurt them, right?(1 John 4:8)
you might asked why would Jesus Christ will do this? it is because HE wants us to know that the trials, challenges and temptations in life that we experienced right now was the same problem that HE experienced when HE became a man. that he understand our sufferings and HE is always here for us. (Hebrews 2:17-18)
isn't it great? and through this HE gave us a wonderful gift of grace.(James 4:6) and in return we must turn away our earthly desires. (Colossians 3:5)
now you know our humble our GOD is, so is it hard to come to HIM? Jesus Christ already proven to us that whatever happens he will always keep HIS promise.(2 Peter 3:13).

feel free to express what you think about my post...i will be glad to answer you if you have questions or if you need help and guidance on what you should do...me and my friends will be glad to help you...god bless!!! GOD LOVES YOU!!!

FACTS or MYTH

Maine Lobster

One morning around 5am 22 year old Susan DeNucci of Maine, woke up with a painful need to urinate. At first she thought she had diarrhea, but when she stood up out of bed, she realized that it was urinary pain. It was very similar to the feeling of having diarrhea, just out the wrong hole. She wobbled to the toilet and upon sitting on it, her vagina erupted into the most horrific messy farting noise anyone has ever heard. In paralyzing pain, Ms. DeLucci for the next few minutes continued to push and squirt out of her vagina a burning tide of wretch and filth while she gripped the sides of the toilet, white-knuckled. She was screaming wildly, and the neighbors called the police. When medics arrived they found Ms. DeNucci unconscious lying on the floor of her bathroom wearing nothing but her bath robe. Running down her leg, was a stream of brown and green syrup. The medic had to transfer her to a stretcher, so he grabbed her left leg which was bent crossing her other leg, to straighten her out. She was lying there all twisted up. When he lifted her left leg to straighten her body out, he exposed her vagina at which point a creature, no larger than the tip of a finger wormed its way out of her genitals and landed on the floor with a wet popping sound. Shocked, the medic stared at the creature that was lying on the tile bathroom floor in a casing of mucous. It was a tiny mud shrimp and it sat there On the cold floor gasping for water while flipping itself back and forth. The horrified medic turned to the toilet as he felt the nausea setting in. When he put his face down into the toilet to puke what he saw was so horrific that to this day he cannot look into a toilet without convulsing. The entire toilet bowl was boiling with baby brown mud shrimp flipping and splashing at a furious pace. If you think that is bad - wait until you hear how it happened: Ms. DeLucci's death was the result of a combination of shock and severe head trauma. She stood up over the toilet in pain and when she saw what she had done, she went into shock and fell, smashing her head on the toilet and then on the floor. It is believed by police that two nights before the accident she had purchased a live lobster at a fish market. While lying in a tub, she gently inserted the creature's tail into her vagina to derive physical pleasure. At that point, she held a lighter under the creature's face causing it to flip its tail in a violent snapping motion. The medics found a lesbian XXX video in the VCR and the TV was positioned on a table in front of the tub. The lobster was found in the kitchen garbage can wrapped in a paper bag. Traces of Ms. DeLucci's DNA were found on the lobster along with pubic hairs that had wedged themselves between the lobsters' tail joints. The lobster's face was lightly burned with the same fuel used in lighters. The lobster's digestive track and colon were found to be full of mud shrimp egg casings. Doctors believe that the lobster had eaten them (they are common in the water at fish markets and are usually harmlessly boiled to death) and the lobster had crapped them out into Ms. DeLucci's vagina when she was torturing it. Maine mud shrimp only take two days to gestate and Ms. DeLucci was only four days away from getting her period. Doctors believe that at that point of her menstrual cycle, her womb was the perfect PH balance to grow these mud shrimp which are a much larger version of the popular "Sea Monkey" pets sold throughout the US. Overnight the eggs had hatched and the mud shrimp began doubling in size every ten minutes!!! You can imagine the pain she was in when she woke up that morning and gave birth to well over 1,000 mud shrimp in her toilet.........