made it back:
pray you have continued on in Proverbs
and have allowed the Holy Spirit to teach you.
Over the last few days i have been looking at tool box organizers,
It has brought me to the though that having our minds,
our lives, organized would make them a lot less complicated.
Removing the clutter the distractions, the worldly teachings
and having a clean clear simple path to walk.
Simple is best,
and as Christians there is no reason that our lives need to be complicated,
Jesus states it well;
If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.
John 14:15
“If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.”
John 15:10
“If you keep My commandments,
you will abide in My love;
just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love.”
John 14:23-24
Jesus answered and said to him,
“If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word;
and My Father will love him,
and We will come to him and make
Our abode with him.
He who does not love Me does not keep My words;
and the word which you hear is not Mine,
but the Father’s who sent Me.”
John 15:9-14
“Just as the Father has loved Me,
I have also loved you;
abide in My love.
If you keep My commandments,
you will abide in My love;
just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.
These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you,
and that your joy may be made full.
This is My commandment,
that you love one another,
just as I have loved you.
Greater love has no one than this,
that one lay down his life for his friends.
You are My friends if you do what I command you.”
1John 5:1-5
Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and whoever loves the Father loves the child born of Him.
By this we know that we love the children of God,
when we love God and observe His commandments.
For this is the love of God,
that we keep His commandments;
and His commandments are not burdensome.
For whatever is born of God overcomes the world;
and this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.
Who is the one who overcomes the world,
but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?”
2John 1:6
And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments.
This is the commandment,
just as you have heard from the beginning,
that you should walk in it.
2John 1:9
Anyone who goes too far and does not abide in the teaching of Christ,
does not have God;
the one who abides in the teaching,
he has both the Father and the Son.
If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching,
do not receive him into your house,
and do not give him a greeting;
for the one who gives him a greeting participates in his evil deeds.
The word of GOD, of Christ Jesus the Son of God are clear.
As Christians we are to love, Him and His Father,
The only way to show that love is to love those whom Christ brings in to our path,
and the body of Christ,
Those who also love Him.
The way we know those who are of God is by the way,
the manner in which they live.
We are also directed that if anyone comes to us and does not bring this teaching,
We are not to allow them into your homes,
and we are not to even give him a greeting;
for to do so is to participates in their evil deeds.
That does not mean we are not to love them,
Our love for them can be lived out in praying for their salvation,
The giving of our time to seriously and honestly pray for them.
Do you love the Lord your God?
Does it show?
Do you love those whom Christ brings in to your life?
Do you keep His commandments?
Humbly bring yourself to the feet of Jesus and repent.
Ask His Holy Spirit to teach you how to love.
And disconnect from those who do not live in the love of Christ our Lord.
If you love Him this should not be a difficult or as Christ has said burdensome choice to make.