Thursday, July 16, 2020

ADDICTED TO LOVE


A dear friend wrote a superb missive recently about a wondrous power that God has anointed for our unlimited use. Each day it seems that there is a new high that has been reached demonstrating man's insatiable hunger for the vulgar and violent outbursts of pure satanic hatred. The media clamors for more and more. The TV Viewers are glued to the 48 inch flat screen windows on today's world, neatly scattered amongst hundreds of channels that each cry out for your undivided complete attention. And don't even get me started about the poison of the internet!


God created the world, and in His creation man has learned the art of SIN well. Sin is a poison that absolutely leads to eternal death. God also made the antidote to this poison, bringing eternal relief to those to consume it regularly. It is my drug of choice. It is addictive. I am hooked....on GOD's LOVE.


Keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting anxiously for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life. "Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me.  "I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing. -Jud 1:21, Joh 15:4-5


When I am filled to overflowing being witness to the wretchedness that only human beings can unleash on each other, my solace, my peace can be regained when I open my Bible and refresh my soul with the word of God; The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. -Gal 5:22-23


Joh 15:8-10  "My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be My disciples.  "Just as the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love.   "If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love.


In the simple and masterful Commandments of our Lord, we have a clear template to which our behavior, one human to another, should be regulated; By this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments.  The one who says, "I have come to know Him," and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;  but whoever keeps His word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him:  the one who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk in the same manner as He walked.-1Jn 2:3-6


And this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God should love his brother also.  "This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you.-1Jn 4:21, Joh 15:12 This clearly includes those who we find hard, very hard to love. God never said it would be easy, only that HE would be with us, guiding our walk -- All the way!


The ultimate expression and gift of LOVE came to us through the horror of the Cross. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.-Rom 5:8


We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.   By this, love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He is, so also are we in this world.-1Jn 4:16-17



If I am to be addicted to anything O Lord Jesus, I pray that I be hopelessly Addicted to Your LOVE, Amen




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