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Me: Sometimes I am up and sometimes I am down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prodigal: But God’s love remains the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is from the book Vocabulary of Faith by Hampton Adams<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some people try to measure the love of God by the way things go with them. If they are prosperous, they talk about the love of God. If reverses come, they doubt God. But no one really knows the love of God who does not know it in such deep and fortified places in his inner life that nothing could ever cause him to doubt the love of the heavenly Father. God’s love does not keep us from adversity. It keeps us when adversity falls upon us. God’s love keeps us, too, in flush of our successes. It keeps us humble. It keeps us aware of the deep sources of our life. It keeps us aware that our life is not dependent upon these successes. This is the knowledge of God’s love that comes to us when our spirit responds to the action of the Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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God’s love is always around us. It is blocked at times from the distractions of our souls. Quietness is needed desperately. We think we are too busy for it, but make time. You cannot be too busy for God. We are refreshed when we soak in God’s love. It hits our spirits and we take a drink not from a well but His refreshing word. Our thirst will continue until we stop for what we need. You are in control of when you stop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Matthew 22:37-39<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

www.theprodigalpig.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n

www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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