Life is like a book
And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ. (Philippians 1:6 ESV)
To Jesus, His Father was everything
What does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. (Deuteronomy 10:12)
God is always watching
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” (Matthew 22:37-39 NIV)
God is a fair and generous judge
Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit. (Ephesians 6:18a KJV)
Comfort others in their tribulation
The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a broken spirit who can bear? (Proverbs 18:14 ESV)
Faith in the Bible creates faith in the miraculous
He who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father. (John 14:12 NKJV)
He will carry us
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us. (Hebrews 12:1 ESV)
The same holds true for Christians
Seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. (Colossians 3:9-10 ESV)
Not to judge according to outward appearances
For man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart. (1 Samuel 16;7b KJV)
How does this apply to me?
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. (Matthew 22:37–39 KJV)
Scripture tells us to forgive
Forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you. (Ephesians 4:32 NKJV)
Trust that you will receive My grace
I have told you these things so that you will be filled with my joy. Yes, your joy will overflow! (John 15:11 NLT)
He loves me for who I am!
Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. (1Peter 5:7)
Out of the darkness
You are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. (1Peter 2:9 NIV)
Not a random number
Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times? (Matthew 18:21 ESV)
Conviction and commitment to live by what we believe
Put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and … be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and … put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness. (Ephesians 4:22–24 ESV)
It’s too easy to draw conclusions
So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God. (Romans 14:12 KJV)
Twill All Be Right at Last
The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped. (Psalm 28:7a KJV)