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 We love not because we want to be loved, we love not to gain something, but we love even if we get nothing in return. This true love only comes from God, and not from ourselves. There is no  way we can generates this Agape love by ourselves. 

 Don't skip the process of loving God, loving yourself, then loving others. This is a commandment, and not feeling-based. In loving God, we got what we need to channel this love, first to ourselves and then to others. 

Hesed mentioned over 200 times in the Bible, understanding hesed as nature of God helps us enjoying all processes in our lives better.

The process comes with salvation - justification, sanctification, and glorification. We cannot skip the process as the only way for us to live our redeemed lives is by trusting God's process and going through it with Him all the way.

When facing process and uncertainty, we tend to seek something that is predictable and certain. This comes at a cost of our faith, as we define God as we want, unknowingly we are creating imaginary gods that give us false comfort. 

There are times when we feel like we are free falling - nothing motivates, energizes, or satisfies us anymore. This is not a time to question our faith and our maturity, we can see it as an invitation to trust the process, and get into deeper relationship with God instead. 

 When we go astray, away from our shepherd, we can learn from the Psalm that God disciplined us, God teaches us, and God protects us even when we go through valley of the death. This is the good news that we need amidst the darkest season in our lives. 

Gospel brings good news that we are justified, sanctified, and glorified. Thus as sinners who were blind, mute, deaf and disabled, our lives should be governed by Gospel of Jesus Christ. One of the main traits of the forgiven, then, is to release forgiveness. 

With the deaths and resurrection of Jesus, we now have a choice to live imitating Him, aligning our hope, intentions and expectation with His. Yet we set ourselves up to fail if we use Jesus as a tool, one that we define to fulfil our own hope and expectation.

We dive through what Jesus said on the cross, on that good Friday 2000 years ago - that affected all mankind until today.

There are times when we feel like darkness surrounds us and we are abandoned by all people around us - this Gospel brings good news that it was never the case, as God is with us and for us.

The positive power of the right routine set us up for good things even when we are in bad season.

 We are in a season when all of our shurch activities questioned and and hindered. This is the right time to revisit what does it mean to be a church

How to discern God and Holy Spirit's will instead of affirming our own deceitful heart that always changes 

Routine is our foundation. We build our lives based on what we do routinely. Whether built upon a rock or sand, our strength lies not in our circumstances, but with our invisible, unspectacular foundation.

Before any outwardly routines, the routine battle that we have everyday is the ones within our mind. Identifying toxic thoughts early can help us making the right decision, one battle at a time.

 If we love God, we will start to love our neighbours as well. Loving like Jesus means that we love without boundaries, and interests.

Widyawati Gunawan from Lifespring Counseling shared with us the joy, practice, pitfalls of parenting.

The world tends to lead us to consumerism, even in love, to be able to get the most satisfaction with the least effort & commitment whereas God shows us covenant relationship, how we should love one another in truth & grace.

True love means that we might not have all the answer, but we can trust His intention and character is beyond what we feel.