True Love!

True love is unconditional and from the heart. Jesus loves you and fills you with the Love of God.  

1 John chapter 4 verse 19.

So you see, our love for Him comes as a result of His loving us first.

How do we come to terms with heartache? 

   Do you remember the first time you came to God and found Jesus standing there waiting for you? It was exciting and exhilarating. Were you alone or with others when God touched your heart? 

   Death can be one of the most hardest things to deal with in our lives. It becomes personal and can hurt right to the very heart of our soul. Robbing us of our joy and happiness. It can make you live in a state of bewilderment and confusion. You wonder when your time might come. You wonder if you had done everything right. You wonder about all sorts of things. Lost to your purpose and sometimes will power.

   In Luke chapter 10, Jesus listened to the disciples, who had just returned, filled with excitement and ambition saying, "Even the demons obey us when we use Your name." His reply was, "However, the important thing is not that the demons obey you, but that your names are registered as citizens of heaven." 

   It is easy for us to get pulled in by power and authority, but Jesus has not given us His Holy Spirit to perform miracles with but to reflect our love for God and God's love for us. If it is God's will that someone is healed or that the words you are speaking help them, then give God the praise. And don't do it publicly but do it silently in your heart. 

   Jesus continues to say in Luke chapter 10, "I praise You, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for hiding these things from the intellectuals and worldly wise and for revealing them to those who are as trusting as little children. Yes, Thank You, Father, for that is the way You wanted it. I am the Agent of My Father in everything; and no one really knows the Son except the Father, and no one really knows the Father except the Son, and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.

   Your pride, before you came to God had hidden Him from you, but you came to the point, when worn down and weary, called out with the innocence of a child to God seeking His help. And He fed you. Maybe your worries cleared up and things got better. Maybe you got a little to excited, to quickly, thinking that all you had to do was walk with Jesus and He would bless you. 

   Troubles do not go away, but God has introduced you to Jesus and you have found favor with Him. Now act like it. Not whining and crying because you are not getting your own way but like an adult who has learned and become satisfied. Jesus has brought peace to your life, a peace that is totally different from that of the worldly. And you reflect that in your daily living. 

   Jesus continued to say in Luke chapter 10, "How privileged you are to see what you have seen. Many a prophet and king of old has longed for these days, to see and hear what you have seen and heard!"

   1 Corinthians chapter 3 verses 11-13 say, "It's like this: when I was a child I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child does. But when I became a man my thoughts grew far beyond those of my childhood, and now I have put away the childish things. In the same way, we can see and understand only a little about God now, as if we were peering at His reflection in a poor mirror; but someday we are going to see Him in His completeness, face to face. Now all that I know is hazy and blurred, but then I will see everything clearly, just as clearly as God sees into my heart right now. There are three things that remain---faith , hope and love---and the greatest of these is love."

   Love is the key to understanding Jesus and the love of God. We are to go about our lives as usual, but to do it by living in the presence of God, our heavenly Father. Jesus has made it possible for you to live in His pastures and to understand His voice, and it is in your love, for the life that you are living, that others see your love for God and God's love for them. 

   In John chapter 10, Jesus says, "My sheep recognize My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. I give them eternal life and they shall never perish. No one shall snatch them away from Me, for My Father has given them to Me, and He is more powerful than anyone else, so no one can kidnap them from Me. I and the Father are one."

   Our joy and happiness is the life we have with God, knowing Jesus and filled with God's Holy Spirit. No wonder followers of Jesus are happy and smiling. They are already in heaven here on earth and forever more. 

   Thank you Father for Jesus. Thank You for Your grace and mercies, for we called to You and You took down our blinders to see the truth about You. 😊  

Ephesian chapter 3 verses 20 and 21.

Now glory be to God who by His mighty power at work within us is able to do far more than we would ever dare to ask or even dream of---infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, or hopes. May He begiven glory forever and ever through endless ages because of His master plan of salvation for the church through Jesus Christ.      

1 John chapter 4 verses 9-19.

God showed us how much He loved us by sending His only Son into this wicked world to bring to us eternal life through His death. In this act we see what real love is: it is not our love for God, but His love for us when He sent His Son to satisfy God's anger against our sins. 

   Since God loved us as much as that, we surely ought to love each other too. For though we have never yet seen God, when we love each other God lives in us and His love within us grows ever stronger. And he has put His own Holy Spirit into our hearts as a proof to us that we are living with him and he with us. 

The apostle John said, "And furthermore, we have seen with our own eyes and now tell all the world that God sent His Son to be their Savior." Anyone who believes this and says that Jesus is the Son of God has God living in him, and he is living with God. 

   We know how much God loves us because we have felt His love and because we believe Him when He tells us that He loves us dearly. God is love, and anyone who lives in love is living with God and God is living in him. And as we live with Christ, our love grows more perfect and complete; so we will not be ashamed and embarrassed at the day of judgement, but can face Him with confidence and joy, because He loves us and we love Him too. 

   We have no fear of someone who loves us so perfectly; His perfect love for us eliminates all dread of what He might do to us. If we are afraid, it is for fear of what He might do to us, and shows that we are not fully convinced that He really loves us. So you see, our love for Him comes as a result of His loving us first.        

John chapter 14 verses 28 and 29.

Jesus said, "I am leaving you with a gift---peace of mind and heart! And the peace I give is not fragile like the peace the world gives. So do not be troubled or afraid."