Daily Devotional

1. Real Love For God

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3. So few can comprehend how deep one's love for God can be

4. That love that grasps the tender heart and will not set it free

5. That sees from now the future with a joy that will not end

6. Those endless moments in that land with Christ our dearest Friend

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8. So few can see past wanting to have everything right now

9. Possessing all the blessings without being told just how

10. Those blessings cost our Saviour more than we can comprehend

11. And therefore need to be most wise in how we choose to spend

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13. The talents and the moments we're entrusted with while here

14. Investing in the future of that Kingdom that is near

15. When God will add the tally of the things that we have done

16. Reflective of the way we felt about His precious Son

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18. To see if we were truly just what we had claimed to be

19. Did we possess the Spirit people needed most to see

20. That listened most attentively to people we would meet

21. To see what God would have of us to lay before His feet

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23. As offering through how we chose to serve these one's of His

24. Who needed most to see the Gospel in a time like this

25. Through selfless acts and kind attentions to the needs they had

26. And words of real encouragement when they were down and sad

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28. For really deep endearing love that God most wants to see

29. That gathers grace each morning from His presence on our knees

30. Looks for the needs in others God is wanting us to serve

31. Not for the signs that we suppose tell us what they deserve

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33. For real love with our Saviour helps us do as He would do

34. Helps us see beyond exteriors the soul He's reaching to

35. And therein helps us see in them the One we love the best

36. The One Who has provided us that Home where we will rest

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38. From all our worldly labors when at last He comes again

39. And lifts us to His throne on high no more a slave of sin

40. Together with those precious souls who saw His love through us

41. Who saw His perfect image and a heart that they could trust

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43. That truly loved as He loved truly felt their needs at heart

44. And showed through selfless actions what it meant to have a part

45. With Jesus in His Kingdom born of love to save all men

46. Those lights of His in darkness 'til our Saviour comes again

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48. Matthew 25:31-46; Romans 13:8; Galatians 5:13