God of Mercy and Grace: CRAVE

It is you, we adore.
It is you, praises are for.
Only you, the heavens declare.
It is you. It is you.
Holy Holy is our God almighty!
Holy Holy is His name alone!

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I'm starting my own little Bible study with myself. I'm using a dvd series called

CRAVE

that talks about:

craving INTIMACY,

craving DESTINY,

and craving MEANING.

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I'm also going to read

C.S. Lewis' book 'Four Loves'

which talks about the four different types of love that all humans feel:

Affection

Friendship

Eros

Charity

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I need to know the difference, so I can better understand why I have certain feelings towards certain people. Love is such a deep and meaningful feeling.... which only makes sense. God is Love. God is complex and above all else. As is love above all other feeling. "...the greatest of these is Love." 1 Corinthians 13:13. By understanding the differences in these types of love, I can see how God fits in with everything I do love. I can see where maybe I love too much and God is put second, and I can see where I don't love enough and God needs to be lifted higher. I can hopefully also understand some of my relationships with people more clearly.

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(I attempted to read it once before, but got too busy to finish. I'm more determined this time though, C.S. Lewis isn't easy to read.)

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And along with that I'm also going to work through my devotional book:

"the one year Through the Bible"

This will take me deeper into God's word and help me understand what He is speaking to me.

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God's language:

The way I see it is, God is the almighty. He created the Heavens and the Earth and he created everything on the earth. He created humans and he created them all different, but in His image. He gave different cultures different languages. We have to learn these languages in order to communicate properly with the people of those cultures, so we study. We invest our time in getting to know the culture and all the different parts of speaking in that language.

And so it is with God.

God has his own language. His language is Holy and Just and we need to learn to communicate with Him. By reading and studying the Bible and by constantly practicing what we've learned and by speaking to God, the better we will get at it and the more we will understand. The Bible is our text book and prayer is our test. We should be spending more time learning and yearning to know, because God's language is the most important language you can learn. We need to better our communication with our Lord.