{"id":107,"date":"2016-02-13T15:06:18","date_gmt":"2016-02-13T19:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ron-james\/?p=107"},"modified":"2016-02-13T15:06:18","modified_gmt":"2016-02-13T19:06:18","slug":"god-knows-you-by-name-and-by-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ron-james\/2016\/02\/13\/god-knows-you-by-name-and-by-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"God knows you by name and by heart"},"content":{"rendered":"

What a great time to celebrate God’s love! God knows you by name and by heart.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 He is a personal God who knows exactly how many hairs are on your head (Matthew 10:30).\u00a0 You can’t read Psalm 139 and think that God is a distant, uncaring God.\u00a0 He is the exact opposite! That is why He sent His very Son, Jesus Christ, to pay the penalty for the sins of each and every individual who believes.\u00a0 He did this to bridge the chasm between sinful folks like you and I and His Holy Self.\u00a0 I Peter 5:7 tells us that God cares about us.\u00a0 He cares about your heart.\u00a0 His love is eternal (Jeremiah 31:3).\u00a0 God Himself is love (I John 4:8).<\/p>\n

While we could conduct an in-depth study on the subject of love in the Bible alone, that is not the purpose of this post.\u00a0 God’s love extends to you and I, and we must not miss that important point that will change our lives forever if we allow it to sink deep within our very heart, mind, and soul.\u00a0 But let’s take God’s love a step further.\u00a0 God loves the nations.\u00a0 He loves the people in the world who live in remote, obscure areas that are hard to reach unless you fly on a helicopter, hike a rugged jungle mountain, or\u00a0traverse a crocodile-infested river…and ultimately learn their language and culture.\u00a0 He loved us enough to send His only Son from the splendors of His perfect realm called heaven to our filthy, violent, sin-sick earth just to reach us with\u00a0His very own\u00a0matchless love.\u00a0 Talk about culture shock!\u00a0Talk about Love!<\/p>\n

Love does not come naturally to the natural man.\u00a0 No way, no how.\u00a0 I will be learning how to love people all the days of my life this side of eternity.\u00a0 So this Valentine’s Day, I ask us, are we reaching to those closest to us with God’s love? Sometimes it’s\u00a0most challenging\u00a0to love those with whom we rub shoulders each and every day.\u00a0 What about those on the other side of the world whom God knows by name and by heart<\/strong><\/em> and longs to reach with His unchanging truth and grace in Christ Jesus? There are many ways to be involved in the Great Commission which Jesus gave His disciples before He ascended back into heaven.\u00a0 He not only knows us by name and by heart, He calls us to Himself – desiring a personal relationship with us and giving us the privilege of living to the praise of His glory as we proclaim Him to the nations and demonstrate His love by our words and actions.\u00a0 May we make the most of every opportunity that He gives us this Valentine’s Day, and always.\u00a0 \"DSCF0007\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What a great time to celebrate God’s love! God knows you by name and by heart.\u00a0 He is a personal God who knows exactly how many hairs are on your head (Matthew 10:30).\u00a0 You can’t read Psalm 139 and think that God is a distant, uncaring God.\u00a0 He is the exact opposite! That is why […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":315,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[448,637],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","tag-ethnos360","tag-new-tribes-mission","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ron-james\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ron-james\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ron-james\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ron-james\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ron-james\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ron-james\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ron-james\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ron-james\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ron-james\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}