"Let someone love you just the way you are .... as flawed as you might be, as unattractive as you sometimes feel, and as unaccomplished as you think you are. To believe that you must hide all the parts of you that are broken, out of fear that someone else is incapable of loving what is less than perfect, is to believe that sunlight is incapable of entering a broken window and illuminating a dark room."

~Marc Hack

Artist: Catrin Welz-Stein

John Berry - The Old Rugged Cross

Wayfaring Stranger

Lari White - Power in Blood

And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, "Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God.

And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death.

Revelation 12:10-11

Be kind🏆

Great teamwork 🐶🐱

Slaves, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord.

Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.

For the wrongdoer will be paid back for the wrong he has done, and there is no partiality.

Masters, treat your slaves justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

Colossians 3:22-4:1

How Paul Gutted Slavery: Colossians 3:22–4:1, Part 1 | Desiring God
https://www.desiringgod.org/labs/how-paul-gutted-slavery

God and Limited Authorities in Christ: Colossians 3:22–4:1, Part 2 | Desiring God
https://www.desiringgod.org/labs/god-and-limited-authorities-in-christ

Is People-Pleasing Ever Right? Colossians 3:22–4:1, Part 3 | Desiring God
https://www.desiringgod.org/labs/is-people-pleasing-ever-right

Should Fear of God Motivate Us? Colossians 3:22–4:1, Part 4 | Desiring God
https://www.desiringgod.org/labs/should-fear-of-god-motivate-us

Slaves of Christ and Not Man: Colossians 3:22–4:1, Part 5 | Desiring God
https://www.desiringgod.org/labs/slaves-of-christ-and-not-man

When Masters Are Also Slaves: Colossians 3:22–4:1, Part 6 | Desiring God
https://www.desiringgod.org/labs/when-masters-are-also-slaves

Evening

"The Lord taketh pleasure in His people."
Psalm 149:4

How comprehensive is the love of Jesus! There is no part of his people's interests which he does not consider, and there is nothing which concerns their welfare which is not important to him. Not merely does he think of you, believer, as an immortal being, but as a mortal being too. Do not deny it or doubt it: "The very hairs of your head are all numbered." "The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way." It were a sad thing for us if this mantle of love did not cover all our concerns, for what mischief might be wrought to us in that part of our business which did not come under our gracious Lord's inspection! Believer, rest assured that the heart of Jesus cares about your meaner affairs. The breadth of his tender love is such that you may resort to him in all matters; for in all your afflictions he is afflicted, and like as a father pitieth his children, so doth he pity you. The meanest interests of all his saints are all borne upon the broad bosom of the Son of God. Oh, what a heart is his, that doth not merely comprehend the persons of his people, but comprehends also the diverse and innumerable concerns of all those persons! Dost thou think, O Christian, that thou canst measure the love of Christ? Think of what his love has brought thee--justification, adoption, sanctification, eternal life! The riches of his goodness are unsearchable; thou shalt never be able to tell them out or even conceive them. Oh, the breadth of the love of Christ! Shall such a love as this have half our hearts? Shall it have a cold love in return? Shall Jesus' marvellous lovingkindness and tender care meet with but faint response and tardy acknowledgment? O my soul, tune thy harp to a glad song of thanksgiving! Go to thy rest rejoicing, for thou art no desolate wanderer, but a beloved child, watched over, cared for, supplied, and defended by thy Lord.

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