{"id":6257,"date":"2018-04-26T06:00:34","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T13:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/daily-e-votional\/?p=6257"},"modified":"2018-04-26T14:02:18","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T21:02:18","slug":"pure-love-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/pure-love-6\/","title":{"rendered":"PURE LOVE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1 John\u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_1111677360\">4:10<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><em>\u201cIn this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son\u00a0to be\u00a0the propitiation for our sins.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I once heard about a couple who made an appointment with a marriage counselor.\u00a0\u00a0The wife started out by saying that she didn\u2019t think her husband loved her.\u00a0\u00a0He just never said he loved her.\u00a0\u00a0When the counselor asked the husband if this were true, he readily agreed.\u00a0\u00a0He said, \u201cI told forty years ago I loved her and I have not withdrawn that statement\u2014it\u2019s still in effect!\u201d\u00a0\u00a0(I think the counselor wanted to bang his head on the desk!)<\/p>\n<p>Here is my candid observation\u2014love is an emotion and begs for some type of positive response.\u00a0\u00a0We are prone to love only as long as the person loves us in return.\u00a0\u00a0Take that response away and we quickly lose the desire to continue loving.<\/p>\n<p>According to God\u2019s precious Word we are to love with a love that is like the love Jesus has for us.\u00a0\u00a0That means we are to love even when the other person is not loveable.<\/p>\n<p>When you stop to think about it, that is the way God loves us\u2014when we are the most unlovable.\u00a0\u00a0It is while we were unlovable sinners that Christ loved us, and it is the unlovable people around us who need us to love them\u2014with Christ\u2019s transforming love.<\/p>\n<p>May God richly bless you as you bless others by your words and actions!<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; Pastor Cecil<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 John\u00a04:10\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cIn this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son\u00a0to be\u00a0the propitiation for our sins.\u201d I once heard about a couple who made an appointment with a marriage counselor.\u00a0\u00a0The wife started out by saying that she didn\u2019t think her husband loved her.\u00a0\u00a0He just never said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-john"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}