Old Testament Scripture Reading: (Psalms 91:9 – 16 KJV)
Psa 91:9 Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;
Psa 91:10 There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.
Psa 91:11 For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
Psa 91:12 They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Psa 91:13 Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.
Psa 91:14 Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.
Psa 91:15 He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.
Psa 91:16 With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.
New Testament Scripture Reading: ( 1John 4:10 – 19 KJV)
1Jn 4:10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
1Jn 4:11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
1Jn 4:12 No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
1Jn 4:13 Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.
1Jn 4:14 And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
1Jn 4:15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
1Jn 4:16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
1Jn 4:17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
1Jn 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
1Jn 4:19 We love him, because he first loved us.
Transforming Power Statements:
1) As fallen human beings it will do us good to meditate upon the properties of God’s definition of “love” so that we do not get things twisted into how “we think, wish or desire” that love really is or should be, because when we do this we will discover some deep things about God that we must learn to emulate as an act of the will not from our emotions, as Moses did upon completion of building the Tabernacle in the wilderness under the instruction of the Most High God Who had created all things!
2) John (the disciple whom Jesus loved) reminds us all of how God also, “pitched His Tent” in a “Tabernacle of the flesh of Jesus His Only Begotten Son” and has revealed that it was God’s idea to show us great mercy to everyone who trusts in Him, by giving them complete pardon (i.e. “propitiation”) totally by grace and that in like manner, we also must do the same for others as proof that we are born again from above!
3) The transaction of Jesus ALONE, also makes it possible for the most high God (The Holy Spirit) to continue to “Tabernacle or pitch His tent” in each of us who rely on the blood of Jesus to keep on cleansing us from all sin as we pass on the love to everyone we meet and deal with from day to day in this life until the Trumpet Sounds!