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God doesn’t want religious duty. He doesn’t want a distracted, half-hearted, ‘Fine, I’ll read a chapter, now are You happy?’ attitude. God wants His word to be a delight to us, so much that we meditate on it day and night.

Francis Chan

God is love, but He also defines what love is. We don’t have the license to define love according to our standards.
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Definition God Love Ourselves Standard
Marriage is one of the most humbling, sanctifying journeys you will ever be a part of. It forces us to wrestle with our selfishness and pride. But it also gives us a platform to display love and commitment.
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Commitment Display Humble Journey Love Marriage Platform Pride
In our world, where hundreds of things distract us from God, we have to intentionally and consistently remind ourselves of Him.
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Consistent Distraction God Himself Intention Ourselves Reminder World
Without action and fruit, all the theology in the world has little meaning.
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Action Fruit Meaning World
The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time.
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Desperate God Himself Time
When we work for Christ out of obligation, it feels like work. But when we truly love Christ, our work is a manifestation of that love, and it feels like love.
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Feeling Love Manifestation Obligation Work
We should be so joyful from God’s grace that others would respond by saying, ‘I wish I had your God.
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God Grace Joy Myself Response Talk
Grace is when you should be totally punished but are blessed for no reason.
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Blessing Grace Punishment Yourself
If God cared only about religious activities, then the Pharisees would have been heroes of the faith.
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Activity Care Faith God Hero Religious
God has allowed hard things in your life so you can show the world that your God is great and that knowing Him brings peace and joy, even when life is hard.
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Allow God Hard Joy Life Peace World Yourself
We are most alive when we are loving and actively giving ourselves because we were made to do these things.
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Action Alive Ourselves
The point is not to completely understand God but to worship Him. Let the very fact that you cannot know Him fully lead you to praise Him for His infiniteness and grandeur.
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Complete God Himself Leadership Understand Worship
He wants all or nothing. The thought of a person calling himself a ‘Christian’ without being a devoted follower of Christ is absurd.
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Call Devotion Follow Person Thinking Weird
The greatest knowledge we can ever have is knowing God treasures us.
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God Greatness Knowledge Ourselves Treasure
A key to everything is surrender – to really come before the Lord and say, – I will literally stay here as long as you want me to stay’ or ‘God, I will really go anywhere on the earth.
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Earth God Myself Surrender
God’s definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.
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Definition God Live Love Measurement Ourselves Straight

God doesn’t want religious duty. He doesn’t want a distracted, half-hearted, ‘Fine, I’ll read a chapter, now are You happy?’ attitude. God wants His word to be a delight to us, so much that we meditate on it day and night.

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God doesn’t want religious duty. He doesn’t want a distracted, half-hearted, ‘Fine, I’ll read a chapter, now are You happy?’ attitude. God wants His word to be a delight to us, so much that we meditate on it day and night.

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