Love the Lord your God

For those that have been following my Blog postings you may have noticed that I have been talking a lot about God's love for us. Well in no way do i intend to make one think that they are sub standard so to speak in the eyes of our Lord. I am simply attempting to say that we can only accept God's love for us. There is nothing, nothing, nothing you can do to win or deserve or prove yourself worthy of God’s love and grace toward you. There is nothing you can do to make God love you any more than He already loves you. Jesus died for us because he loves us, and I think we tend to as humans try to some how pay him back for that. We kind of try to,,,, so to say "even the score". We can never do enough to thank God for sending Jesus to the cross for us, never do enough to compensate Jesus for His sacrifice on our behalf. I think we try to prove ourselves worthy to receive God' grace, we somehow try to win it. There is nothing you can do to make God love you any more than He already loves you. We are God’s workmanship created for good works, not saved by good works. Ephesians 2:10 says this, For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Now if you don’t think that God thinks your special, then I don't know what to tell you. God calls us his "handiwork”, so that kind of make me feel special. This is another one of my favorite scriptures, 2 Timothy 1:8-9, so do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord or of me his prisoner. Rather, join with me in suffering for the gospel, by the power of God. 9 He has saved us and called us to a holy life—not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time. Our works can't add up to award us salvation, Christ saved us and enables us do good works. God loves us more than we will ever be able understand this side of eternity. Our job I believe is just to open our hearts and to accept the love that our Lord and Savoir has for us. WE should do our best to open our mind and heart to the power of His love and do our absolute best to pass it on to those who don't know it or have never experienced it. We must learn to be bold for God. We need to draw wisdom from His Holy Spirit on how to witness to the lost people in this dying world. If we ask I believe God will show us how for example, today I witnessed my close friend once again be used mightily by God. He did it in such a subtle way, God gave him something and he was obedient and used it. You are a wonderful and faithful servant Dave, and I am truly blessed by your faithfulness’We live in a cruel and thankless world that takes from us our joy on a daily basis. Most Christians are so caught up in the cares of life and deceitfulness of riches that they too are short on peace and joy. Such conditions cannot please our Heavenly Father. The Apostle Paul wrote, "Rejoice in the Lord always and again I say rejoice." The Word of God states, "The joy of the Lord is our strength." We cannot deny there is joy in salvation, plus joy within the Fruit of the Spirit. There are so many answers in the word of God, but we must truly devote our minds to finding those answers, there is so much joy to be found in the word of God. Our Father wants our joy to be full. Luke 10:27- He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’ and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ Blessings my Friends.!