NO ONE in CREATION LOVES like THE LORD does, though we ARE able to!!!
Free will, given to both angels, and humans, provides CHOICES; the first to LOVE *GOD* AS HE LOVES! It IS possible, and yet, in our rebellion, in our self-confident pride, and self-reliance, since the beginning, we are blinded, and deceived by the lies the world has passed down from then, making it difficult for us to SEE the NEED, and the SENSE in doing so! We take THE WILL OF *GOD*, which IS a BEAUTIFUL thing, and turn it into something which seems to work against what we want, and desire! *GOD* WANTS to SHARE HIS LOVE ETERNALLY with ALL, but pride got in the way via the deceiver, who was thrown out of HEAVEN for his own pride!!!
*GOD* COULD HAVE made everyone LOVE HIM in our design, but HE opted to give us the CHOICE to LOVE HIM, or not, because when it comes from the heart, and spirit, IT IS PRECIOUS, and PLEASING! LOVE IS NOT exempt from rejection, yet it continues on; it CANNOT be hampered, nor lessened, nor eradicated, however many CHOOSE to reject it!!!
When *GOD* CREATED humans, HE intended to dwell with us; HE CREATED a beautiful, and thriving place for this to take place! The fallen angel(s) loathed us because they KNEW that HE had CREATED us to BE HIS Children, and gave us much of HIS own nature, and attributes, and so, out of jealousy, and the utter evil in their beings, they were, through their knowledge of HIM, HIS WILL, and HIS WAYS, able to devise schemes to prove us unworthy of HIS LOVE, and companionship! *GOD* BELIEVED in us, and was hoping to put the fallen one to shame through our obedience, and LOVE, but then, persuasive words were able to awaken pride, and self-inclination in the first people, which has since, been as a wall between us, and THE LORD *GOD*!!!
HE STILL INTENDS TO DWELL WITH THOSE WHO LOVE HIM, and so, HE CAME as a human to die for us, and to offer us LIFE ETERNAL; OVERCOMING death, and then ARISING TO HIS THRONE IN VICTORY! LOVE PROVED ITSELF THROUGH a MOST GLORIOUS ACT TO demonstrate the TRUTH OF THE POWERS OF LOVE!!!
Those who ARE OF *GOD* are NOT of this world; they ARE of HEAVEN, and so, there IS a difference between those who accept HIM as their SAVIOUR, and those who do not! The difference is diverse, from thought, all the way through to action, and reaction, and IS grounded, then anchored IN LOVE, which LEADS, PROTECTS, PROVIDES, HEALS, RESTORES, RENEWS, REPLENISHES, and on the POSITIVES go! It IS imperative for those who SEEK *GOD* TO understand that they are NOT of this world which INTENDS to snare them, and ultimately chain them to the slated destruction of this world! The enemy WANTS us all to face the eternal consequences he faces, and WILL go to ANY length to take ANY one who is NOT securely aligned TO THE LORD *GOD*!!!
It IS IMPERATIVE to UNDERSTAND *GOD'S* LOVE, and HOW we SHOULD MELD into it, as there IS great distress forecasted in the end times, when EVERYONE, and EVERYTHING WILL be tested, shaken, and endangered as the battle between the prideful ones, and *GOD* peaks! LOVE STRENGTHENS FAITH, FAITHFULNESS, HUMILITY, and THUS, THE WILL TO OBEY VIA knowledge, and understanding OF ALL that *GOD* has placed before us TO enable us, empower us, enrich us, endow us, enlighten us, and encourage us, THAT we are SAFE, SOUND, and CAPACITATED TO WITHSTAND ALL which works against HIM, and us!!!
LOVE AIDS us IN RECEIVING HIM, and HIS works through THE SPIRIT, as IN LOVE, we are NOT resistant, instead receptive OF whatever HE WILLS, and gives! LOVE KEEPS us ATTUNED TO HIM, and WILLING TO ACCEPT WHAT IS OF HIM!!!
JEREMIAH 29: 11...
'For I know the plans that I have for you,' declares the LORD, 'plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.
The TOTAL OPPOSITE of what the enemy has in store for us! The enemy has NOTHING to offer! Not ALL the riches or things of the world, nor the pleasures, nor ANYTHING ALL COMBINED, can GIVE us what we NEED, and ultimately, desire; THE LORD, HIS LOVE, and ETERNAL LIFE IN THE KINGDOM!!!
PSALM 36: 5-12...
5+++Your love, Lord, reaches to the heavens,
your faithfulness to the skies.
6+++Your righteousness is like the highest mountains,
your justice like the great deep.
You, Lord, preserve both people and animals.
7+++How priceless is your unfailing love, O God!
People take refuge in the shadow of your wings.
8+++They feast on the abundance of your house;
you give them drink from your river of delights.
9+++For with you is the fountain of life;
in your light we see light.
10+++Continue your love to those who know you,
your righteousness to the upright in heart.
11+++May the foot of the proud not come against me,
nor the hand of the wicked drive me away.
12+++See how the evildoers lie fallen—
thrown down, not able to rise!
Men may shut up their compassion, yet, with God we shall find mercy. This is great comfort to all believers, plainly to be seen, and not to be taken away. God does all wisely and well; but what he does we know not now, it is time enough to know hereafter.
God's loving-kindness is precious to the saints. They put themselves under his protection, and then are safe and easy. Gracious souls, though still desiring more of God, never desire more than God. The gifts of Providence so far satisfy them, that they are content with such things as they have. The benefit of holy ordinances is sweet to a sanctified soul, and strengthening to the spiritual and Divine life.
But full satisfaction is reserved for the future state. Their joys shall be constant. God not only works in them a gracious desire for these pleasures, but by his Spirit fills their souls with joy and peace in believing. He quickens whom he will; and whoever will, may come, and take from him of the waters of life freely.
May we know, and love, and uprightly serve the Lord; then no proud enemy, on earth or from hell, shall separate us from his love. Faith calleth things that are not, as though they were. It carries us forward to the end of time; it shows us the Lord, on his throne of judgment; the empire of sin fallen to rise no more.
REV. LWINSOR © 2016
BIBLICAL, and/or other references marked BOLDLY IN COLOURS
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