This is a short blog tonight but I felt pressed on my heart to say this, and with tears in my eyes I say to “Let us love our Father (GOD) with all our hearts, with all our minds, and with all our strength, just as He has loved us and continues to love us in spite of ourselves. Let us try to give back to our father that which He has given to us, though we know NOTHING that we can give can come close to the love God gives to us. His mercies are new EVERYDAY!
He loves us soooo much! We see it all around us everyday. In the change in our children, the change in our spouses, the changes on our jobs, the changes in our homes, the changes that are taking place in our hearts for others, our renewed strength etc. I could go on but you know those things that God has done for you, those answered prayers, His warm embraces, times He’s wiped our tears, healed our hurts & pains, delivered us from the sins our flesh and the yoke of this world.
Does ALL these things not PROVE His love? Can God prove our love? Is our love for Him as evident my beloved ones?
God IS and has been ALL things to us! Let us give back to Him what He is worthy of!
In this, is LOVE, not that we loved God, but that HE loved us and gave His Son as the atoning sacrifice for OUR sins! Tell me then, how GREAT is the love that the father has lavished on us, that we should be called CHILDREN of God and that IS what we are, so let us love our father as children SHOULD!
Father, Our Beloved Father, We love you, forgive us for not showing you just how much sometimes. Forgive our selfish ambitions at times. Help us to love you just as we should Father. Let NOTHING separate us from YOUR love! Let our love for you be convincing! Your love Father is sooo faithful! Let our love NOT fail YOU.
SHIRLEY K said:
Catonya, your spirit is so wonderfully new to me. You remind me of myself when my desires seemed so out of reach. The prefection I seeked seemed so distant to me, and the world seemed so out-of-touch with what I felt was reality. I felt that we were doomed if we did not change our ways, and acknowledged those changes daily. Finally, it hit me that as long as I am aware and do what is right and desired of me by HIM WHO SENT ME, is all I can be accountable for. HE did not send or need me to save the world, all HE left for and ask of me to do is to LOVE MY NEIGHBOR AS MYSELF. I am not what I ought to be, thank GOD I’m not what I use to be, but HE is making me what I am everyday. I am not learning too slow or fast. I hope I am on target, as I think I am. Perfection I no longer seek, because if I found that I would have no need for HIM. I need HIM everyday and every hour. I am happy and at peace because I know the real meaning of GOD which is LOVE. I have no fears as we define the word. But my greatest fear is defined as the Greeks would define the word, "respect, highest regard, genuine love". Thus, with the fears I encounter daily for myself, I can only increase in my fear of HIM as I ascend in my love for self and others. I know I am getting closer each day. The "FATHER’ is always within me as HE carries me through this earthly journey and we become as one in a relationship that no man can devide. You inspire me!! LOVE TO YOU MY BELOVED!!!
Curtis said:
The only thing that God wants from us is the submission of our bodies and minds to God’s full habitation and control. Meaning to allow the consciousness in our bodies and minds to "BE" God. "I" – the separate from God individual that I used to think that I was – has died with Christ. The life in this body now is the life of God. God is a "person" who has a personality. That personality was best expressed in the body of Jesus. That is now the personality in this body. What about you?