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Love in holiness 🙏💞😘
1 Peter 1:15 but like the Holy One who called you, become holy yourselves in all your conduct,
1 Peter 2:22 Now that you have purified yourselves by your obedience to the truth with unhypocritical brotherly affection as the result, love one another intensely from the heart.
1 Peter 4:8 8 Above all things, have intense love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins.
1 Peter 5:14 Greet one another with a kiss of love.
“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
- Le Petit Prince
The opposite to haughtiness
Luke 17:10 Likewise, when you have done all the things assigned to you, say: ‘We are good-for-nothing slaves. What we have done is what we ought to have done.’”
Romans 7:14 For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin. 15 For I do not understand what I am doing. For I do not practice what I wish, but I do what I hate. 16 However, if I do what I do not wish, I agree that the Law is fine.
8 But sin, finding the opportunity afforded by the commandment, worked out in me covetousness of every sort, …
2 Corinthians 12:7 …To keep me from becoming overly exalted, I was given a thorn in the flesh, an angel of Satan, to keep slapping me, so that I might not be overly exalted.
Luke 17:10 does not describe humility; it describes low self-esteem.
“Be who you are and say how you feel because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.”
- The Cat in The Hat
To follow Jesus Christ
Luke 5:27 Now after this, he went out and saw a tax collector named Leʹvi sitting at the tax office, and he said to him: “Be my follower.” 28 And leaving everything behind, he rose up and began to follow him. 29 Then Leʹvi spread a big reception feast for him in his house, and there was a large crowd of tax collectors and others who were dining with them.
Mark 8:34 He now called the crowd to him with his disciples and said to them: “If anyone wants to come after me, let him disown himself and pick up his torture stake and keep following me. 35 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and for the sake of the good news will save it.
Matthew 10:35 For I came to cause division, with a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. 36 Indeed, a man’s enemies will be those of his own household. 37 Whoever has greater affection for father or mother than for me is not worthy of me; and whoever has greater affection for son or daughter than for me is not worthy of me.
"Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times when one only remembers to turn on the light."
- Harry Potter
We need peace of mind
What does peace of mind mean?
Peace of mind means just what it sounds like: a state in which your brain is calm, at ease, and untroubled by worry. This common phrase describes a feeling of tranquility or state of carefree contentment that can be hard to achieve. (A quote from www.vocabulary.com)
Jude 1:2 May mercy and peace and love be increased to you.
2 John 1:3 There will be with us undeserved kindness, mercy, and peace from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, with truth and love.
2 Thessalonians 3:16 Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace constantly in every way. May the Lord be with all of you.
Colossians 3:15 Also, let the peace of the Christ rule in your hearts, for you were called to that peace in one body. …
"If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember.
"You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you."
- Winnie the Pooh
Maybe it starts now?
Revelation 6:3 When he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say: “Come!” 4 Another came out, a fiery-colored horse, and it was granted to the one seated on it to take peace away from the earth so that they should slaughter one another, and he was given a great sword.
8 And authority was given them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with a long sword and with food shortage and with deadly plague and by the wild beasts of the earth.
