The Love of God

For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.  I love the Lord, because He hath heard my voice and my supplications. And I will delight myself in Thy commandments, which I have loved.  My hands also will I lift up unto Thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in Thy statutes.  Meditate much upon the words of God, which are the pure thoughts of God, and the mind of Christ. I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me.  The more you get to know Jesus, the more you admire and adore Him.

O how love I Thy law! it is my meditation all the day.  I will love Thee, O Lord, my strength.  I hate vain thoughts: but Thy law do I love.  Be careful not to offend or grieve the Spirit of God. And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.  But God, who is rich in mercy, for His great love wherewith He loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved.

Is your faith genuinely fixed in the Precious Blood Atonement of God manifest in the flesh, the Lord Jesus Christ?

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?  For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.  Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross: therefore I love Thy testimonies.  Therefore I love Thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.  Where our love is, there is our delight.

Have you turned away from all righteousness which is not Christ's?

Look Thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as Thou usest to do unto those that love Thy name.  Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the Lord your God.  But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. Thy word is very pure: therefore Thy servant loveth it.  And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ. But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.

Is your soul sheltered behind the blood-covered Door?  *Exodus 12:23* *John 10:9* *I John 1:7*

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose. Consider how I love Thy precepts: quicken me, O Lord, according to Thy lovingkindness.  And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.  Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.  But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost. Now our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace.

What have you done with the blood of Jesus?

Love God's words, practice the scriptures, set your heart on Jesus, yearn for Heaven, be sensitive to the Holy Spirit, walk humbly with Jesus, pine to be pure, long to be holy for Jesus' sake. Jesus paid the price for my sins at Calvary with His precious blood; I am so thankful He saved my soul.  Jesus bought my ticket to Heaven, and one day He is going to call my name, and I'm going to fly out of this world so fast (in the twinkling of an eye), I will leave the space shuttle in the dust.  I know I'm going to Heaven, won't you come and go with me.  I'm homesick for that better country where Jesus is King.

Have you been born again by simple faith in the Lamb of God?

Hereby perceive we the love of God, because He laid down His life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. O love the Lord, all ye His saints: for the Lord preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.  Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently.  I hate and abhor lying: but Thy law do I love.  Jesus knew that His hour was come that He should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved His own which were in the world, He loved them unto the end.

What can wash away all your sins against God?  Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments: and His commandments are not grievous.  In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.  Great peace have they which love Thy law: and nothing shall offend them.  My soul hath kept Thy testimonies; and I love them exceedingly. The grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

Where are you spiritually, in Christ, or in your sins?

Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love Me, he will keep My words: and My Father will love him, and We will come unto him, and make Our abode with him.  He that loveth Me not keepeth not My sayings: and the word which ye hear is not Mine, but the Father's which sent Me.  But whoso keepeth His word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in Him.  But if any man love God, the same is known of him.

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep His commandments.  The love of Christ constraineth us. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.  Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.  And this is God's commandment, That we should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as He gave us commandment.  Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Prove the sincerity of your love.

And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood,  and hath made us kings and priests unto God and His Father; to Him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.