Love in the Making

(Pro 3:12) For whom the LORD loves He reproves, Even as a father corrects the son in whom he delights.

This old man has just come out of a period of reproof, also know as rebuke. I will testify that our Lord's love in His reproof wounds a man to his very core.

It doesn't take more than a few seconds; the time for your brain to recognize that what you just did or said was way out of bounds and unacceptable in His eyes; and His discipline results. God knows where you live! As a good father, He knows how to make you behave. When the Lord Almighty places you in a –TIME OUT-- He gets your full and undivided attention.

God's love for His people, the love Jesus has for His sheep, drives His desire to correct your behavior all while he walks along side you everywhere you go. Being yoked to your Lord is a most beautiful and comforting thing. Although painful to suffer His correction, when it is done, finished and His joy is poured out on you as on a child, you will find yourself whispering “I love you my Abba” In that very moment you are filled with His unending love.

(Joh 21:17) Feed My sheep.

OSWALD CHAMBERS:

This is love in the making. The love of God is un-made, it is God’s nature. When we receive the Holy Spirit He unites us with God so that His love is manifested in us. When the soul is united to God by the indwelling Holy Spirit, that is not the end; the end is that we may be one with the Father as Jesus was. What kind of oneness had Jesus Christ with the Father? Such a oneness that the Father sent Him down here to be spent for us, and He says – "As the Father hath sent Me, even so send I you."

Peter realizes now with the revelation of the Lord’s hurting question that he does love Him; then comes the point – "Spend it out." Don’t testify how much you love Me, don’t profess about the marvellous revelation you have had, but – "Feed My sheep." And Jesus has some extraordinarily funny sheep, some bedraggled, dirty sheep, some awkward, butting sheep, some sheep that have gone astray! It is impossible to weary God’s love, and it is impossible to weary that love in me if it springs from the one centre. The love of God pays no attention to the distinctions made by natural individuality. If I love my Lord I have no business to be guided by natural temperament; I have to feed His sheep. There is no relief and no release from this commission. Beware of counterfeiting the love of God by working along the line of natural human sympathy, because that will end in blaspheming the love of God.

HAVE YOU READ YOUR BIBLE TODAY?