God meets all our needs. In His great love, He knows and sees and provides for our true needs, since He knows us better than we know ourselves.
When we do not know ourselves, we find it hard to love our neighbor as ourselves* as Jesus taught us to do. If we knew ourselves, we would love ourselves, and thus we could love our neighbor as ourselves.
When we know ourselves, love ourselves, and love our neighbor as ourselves, we do the will of God. When we always follow the will of God, we love God with all our heart, with all our mind, with all our soul, and with all our strength.** Loving God with all we have, we become aware of how abundantly God provides for us.
God gives us so many more gifts than we realize. We do not see how many gifts God gives to us because we think in our limited terms of what we think we need and want.
In contrast, God loves us infinitely. Since we think in finite terms, we do not perceive the boundlessness of God's love.
If we recognized all that God gives to us, we would appreciate that we have all we need. God is love,*** and so God gives us all we need.
* Matthew 22:39; Mark 12:31; Luke 10:27; Leviticus 19:18; Romans 13:9; Galatians 5:14
** Deuteronomy 6:5; Deuteronomy 10:12; Matthew 22:37; Mark 12:30; Luke 10:27
*** 1 John 4:8,16
When we do not know ourselves, we find it hard to love our neighbor as ourselves* as Jesus taught us to do. If we knew ourselves, we would love ourselves, and thus we could love our neighbor as ourselves.
When we know ourselves, love ourselves, and love our neighbor as ourselves, we do the will of God. When we always follow the will of God, we love God with all our heart, with all our mind, with all our soul, and with all our strength.** Loving God with all we have, we become aware of how abundantly God provides for us.
God gives us so many more gifts than we realize. We do not see how many gifts God gives to us because we think in our limited terms of what we think we need and want.
In contrast, God loves us infinitely. Since we think in finite terms, we do not perceive the boundlessness of God's love.
If we recognized all that God gives to us, we would appreciate that we have all we need. God is love,*** and so God gives us all we need.
* Matthew 22:39; Mark 12:31; Luke 10:27; Leviticus 19:18; Romans 13:9; Galatians 5:14
** Deuteronomy 6:5; Deuteronomy 10:12; Matthew 22:37; Mark 12:30; Luke 10:27
*** 1 John 4:8,16
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