{"id":211,"date":"2014-04-21T16:52:59","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T21:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/belovedlove.org\/reflections\/?p=211"},"modified":"2019-05-17T15:14:01","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T20:14:01","slug":"gods-supreme-attribute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/belovedlove.org\/reflections\/2014\/04\/21\/gods-supreme-attribute\/","title":{"rendered":"God&#8217;s Supreme Attribute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Lydia Floren<\/p>\n<p>I love this quote by Billy Graham, so appropriate in the Easter Season,from his book <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Journey<\/span>.\u00a0 He gave the ultimate gift &#8211; His life &#8211; so that we would be able to connect with Him intimately, daily,\u00a0<i>His presence continually with and within us<\/i>.\u00a0 Nothing can demonstrate His love and deep desire for all of us more than for us to spend an unending future with Him in the bliss-filled place called Heaven:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<address>\u201cThe more I read the Bible, the more I realize that love is God\u2019s supreme attribute.\u00a0 Behind every dealing God has with us is His perfect love.\u00a0 It was love that made Him create us, and it was love that caused Him to send His Son to redeem us.\u00a0 His love pursues us and draws us to Himself, and His love will someday take us into His presence forever. \u2018This is love:\u00a0 not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sin&#8230;s\u2019 (1 John 4:10). \u00a0<b>His love is not a passing fancy or a superficial emotion;\u00a0 it is <i>a profound and unshakable commitment that seeks what is best for us.<\/i><\/b><i>\u00a0 <\/i>Human love may change or fade; God\u2019s love never will.\u00a0 He says to us, \u2018I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness.\u2019 (Jeremiah 31:3).\u201d<\/address>\n<p align=\"right\">-Billy Graham (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Journey<\/span>, p.22)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><i>There is no greater love than to lay down one&#8217;s life for one&#8217;s friends. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=John+15%3A13&amp;version=NLT\">(John 15:13 NLT)<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>For more thoughts\/observations about God\u2019s great love, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.belovedlove.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Belovedlove.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/belovedlove.org\/reflections\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Gods-commitment-lg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-213\" src=\"http:\/\/belovedlove.org\/reflections\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Gods-commitment-lg.jpg\" alt=\"God's love is a profound and unshakable commitment that seeks what is best for us. 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