Over 2 thousand years ago and well . . . The Greatest Gift of Love ever manifested was given. Love that is totally unfathomable! You know that Love - not just a "feeling", the one that gave to the very end to where those around don't really understand because sin is so persuasive and subtle! Not the "I don't feel or have the feeling of love so let's move on" but the one that remains FAITHFUL even when it is hard.
When darkness sneaks around the corners of our very weaknesses just waiting for an opportunity to devour us by the recesses of our minds- our sin - my sin. The heart speaks loudly through actions. Just look deep into the eyes of another and the Lord does reveal much of the soul and spirit of another. It is so sad to look into the eyes of one deeply loved friends or family and see that Christ is not present there. Growing up in that darkness is experiential for myself. It was odd and still is odd that the "gut instinct of a child" is very real. No wonder that the Lord and Savior has said "to let the little children come unto him. For their innocence and their lives are pure until the adult world can taint them and lead them astray.
I have looked into many eyes in the midst of what is called my life - and my heart aches with the many that fool themselves like the church of Laodicia. I just learned of that kind of lukewarmness is AWFUL - this last Sunday and it deeply convicted my very depths of where I need to stop being "lukewarm". It also has made me look deep with in myself to yield every part of my being at his feet. I am daily needing to come to him because I am in desperate need if HIM. I am NOT in total control of anything of importance by the worlds standards other than the choices that I make of weather to follow HIM or NOT to follow HIM. Does that make sense?
Satan is real, he is sneaky and ugly with the intent to destroy as many as he can and he starts in the areas we are weak, I am weak. The battle is spiritual! The battle is defeatable ONLY through the BLOOD of JESUS CHRIST and the yielding of a heart to come to a daily dieing of self - to give 100% allegiance to the ONLY TRUE MASTER - Jesus Christ our EMMANUEL!!! So why do we as a human race try to fill our hearts with false LOVE - gods? What is your Love? My Love? What do we/I fill our/my hole in our/my lives/life with? ???? WHAT!? Prestige & Popularity-anything, anyone and everything it takes to "fit in with the world" ? Power-(Pride really) - all that it costs to be in front of society "the top dog ego"? Possessions- the material gain? Why??? It only creates a deeper & larger hole in the heart and never satisfies to the point that it eventually consumes the person if they continue with the Lies Satan is feeding their heart. The person then begins to lie to others and themselves. Is it worth gaining the entire world and losing your soul for all eternity?
All this said to reveal there is FREEDOM from this bondage, it is called - REPENTANCE. Fill your heart with the Lord by submitting to His Son - Jesus Christ and FOLLOW HIM! He died a very real death so that YOU and I can truly LIVE with JOY and have "TRUE LOVE & PEACE" that only he can & will give to those who accept and Believe in HIM. So do you believe that Jesus IS the Christ, the Son of the living God? That He died & arose from the grave so that you may live? Then ask Jesus Christ into your life today and confess with your mouth that he is LORD of you life! And upon your confession go & be baptized -IMMERSED - and sin no more. Welcome to our Family!!! Now get up and get involved with a Bible Believing body (church) that teaches the truth of the scriptures as truth & love. Read the book of John (in the new testament) is a great place to start and a proverb a day (31 to match each day of the month).
I share because I care with deep Love and my heart is being broken with convictions of my own. I know not when my 'Today" will be my last, and I have nothing to loose.
