Love God
Love Neighbor

He not only cherishes you, he nourishes you (Eph 5:29). He is feeding life into you by the Spirit moment by moment, sustaining you, preserving you, protecting you. Dane Ortlund 29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, (Eph. 5:29)

His family thought he was nuts (Mark 3:21). Maybe your family thinks you are too. He doesn’t. He cherishes you (Eph 5:29). Dane Ortlund 21 And when his family heard it, they went out to seize him, for they were saying, “He is out of his mind.” (Mark 3:21) 29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, (Eph. 5:29)

He didn’t come to give a pep talk. He’s not a coach. He came to do, in our place, what every pep talk is trying to get us impossibly unmotivated people to do. (Phil. 4.13) Dane Ortlund 13 I can do all things through him who strengthens me. (Phil. 4:13)