Scripture of the Day January 22, 2024
LOVE, LOVED, LOVETH, LOVEST from the Bible’s ‘Gospel of John’ [part 1]
In 1952, a missionary to a government migrant camp in Arizona, Miss Freda Cassins; along with a student from the Arizona Bible Institute, started a club for the youth in our area. It was called the ‘ETERI CLUB’; Greek 'eteri' meaning ‘others’. One of the projects to earn points, was to read thru the Gospel of John five times; each time underlining one of these words: LIFE, LIGHT, LOVE, KNOW AND BELIEVE. Today’s scripture will be the first part of a ‘Scripture of the Day’ series in John with the word LOVE and its conjugations:
John 3:16-19 For God so LOVED the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life….. And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men LOVED darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
John 5:42 But I know you, that ye have not the LOVE of God in you.
John 8:42a Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would LOVE me:
John 10:17 Therefore doth my Father LOVE me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
John 11:3-5 Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou LOVEST is sick….. Now Jesus LOVED Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.
John 11:36 Then said the Jews, Behold how he LOVED him!
John 12:43 For they LOVED the praise of men more than the praise of God.
John 13:1 Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having LOVED his own which were in the world, he LOVED them unto the end.
John 13:23 Now there was leaning on Jesus' bosom one of his disciples, whom Jesus LOVED.
John 13:34-35 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye LOVE one another; as I have LOVED you, that ye also LOVE one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have LOVE one to another.
John 14:15 If ye LOVE me, keep my commandments.
John 14:21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that LOVETH me: and he that LOVETH me shall be LOVED of my Father, and I will LOVE him, and will manifest myself to him.
John 14:23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man LOVE me, he will keep my words: and my Father will LOVE him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
John 14:28 Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye LOVED me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.
John 14:31 But that the world may know that I LOVE the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.
Check back tomorrow for the second part of the word LOVE in the Bible’s Gospel of John. The Lord be magnified (Psalm 40:16)
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Froyennes: le camp de migrants a été démantelé, la police a saisi le matériel de survie - L'Avenir
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Fighting the First UK-Rwandan Refugee Flight Amicably
Fighting the First UK-Rwandan Refugee Flight Amicably
June 10 bore witness to a valiant effort on the part of refugee groups and a trade union to stop what promises to be the first journey of many as part of the UK-Rwanda plan. Their attempt to seek an injunction failed to convince the High Court. Next Tuesday, the first flight from the UK to Rwanda filled with asylum seekers will, unless the Court of Appeal rules otherwise, take off. Some 31 people…
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Hi! Do you think you could link me to some resources about the problems/ evils of the EU? Would love to find some but it's hard to know what's reliable when I have no base knowledge in this area + you seem very well informed :)
sure. let's start with what the EU does to its own member states--in 2009, the EU bailed the greek government out of severe debt on the condition that they establish brutal austerity measures, cutting public spending and welfare. these measures served to immiserate and destroy the lives of thousands of greek people:
Greek mortality has worsened significantly since the beginning of the century. In 2000, the death rate per 100,000 people was 944.5. By 2016, it had risen to 1174.9, with most of the increase taking place from 2010 onwards.
[forbes]
Since the implementation of the austerity programme, Greece has reduced its ratio of health-care expenditure to GDP to one of the lowest within the EU, with 50% less public hospital funding in 2015 than in 2009. This reduction has left hospitals with a deficit in basic supplies, while consumers are challenged by transient drug shortages.
[the lancet]
The homeless population is thought to have grown by 25 per cent since 2009, now numbering 20,000 people.
[oxfam]
the most brutal treatment, however, the EU of course reserves for migrants from the global south. the EU sets strict migration quotas and uses its member states as weapons against desperate people fleeing across the mediterranean. boats are prevented from landing, migrants that do make it to land are repelled with brutal violence, and refugees are deported back to countries where their lives are in lethal danger. these policies have led to many, many deaths--and the refugees and migrants who do survive are treating fucking inhumanely.
After a perilous journey across the desert, Abdulaziz was locked up in Triq al-Sikka, a grim prison in Tripoli, Libya. Why? Because the EU pays Libyan militias millions of euros to detain anyone deemed a possible migrant to Europe [...] A leaked EU internal memorandum in 2020 acknowledged that capturing migrants was now “a profitable business model” [...] in Triq al-Sikka and other detention centres, “acts of murder, enslavement, torture, rape and other inhumane acts are committed against migrants”, observed a damning UN report.
[the guardian]
Volunteers have logged more than 27,000 deaths by drowning since 1993, often hundreds at a time when large ships capsize. These account for nearly 80% of all the entries.
[the guardian]
Refugees and asylum seekers were punched, slapped, beaten with truncheons, weapons, sticks or branches, by police or border guards who often removed their ID tags or badges, the committee said in its annual report. People on the move were subject to pushbacks, expulsion from European states, either by land or sea, without having asylum claims heard.
Victims were also subject to “inhuman and degrading treatment”, such as having bullets fired close to their bodies while they lay on the ground, being pushed into rivers, sometimes with hands tied, or being forced to walk barefoot or even naked across a border.
[the guardian]
In September, Greece opened a refugee camp on the island of Samos that has been described as prison-like. The €38m (£32m) facility for 3,000 asylum seekers has military-grade fencing and CCTV to track people’s movements. Access is controlled by fingerprint, turnstiles and X-rays. A private security company and 50 uniformed officers monitor the camp. It is the first of five that Greece has planned; two more opened in November.
[the guardian]
i could go on. i could cite dozens more similarly brutal news stories about horrific mistreatment, or any of the dozens of people who have killed themselves in the custody of border police under horrific conditions. the EU is a murderous institution that does not care about the lives of refugees and migrants or about the lives of the citizens of any member state that is not pursuing a vicious enough neoliberal political program
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