“Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love. By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live...
“He sent from on high, He took me;
He drew me out of many waters.
He delivered me from my strong enemy,
And from those who hated me, for they were too mighty for me.
They confronted me in the day of my calamity,
But the Lord was my stay.
He brought me forth also into a broad place;
He rescued...
Have you ever been taught these last three verses, beginning with “Come to me all you who labor..” in this context? I don’t know that I ever have. I may have, and perhaps I just don’t remember. But reading these last three verses in this context, and in the context of the verses prior to these...