We will also find that along with a changed heart, our mind gets renewed, and love is now the force that directs our actions, thoughts and words. We become joined with other believers and receive encouragement through fellowship together. Since we know we now belong to a family of believers, we no longer feel alone and depressed. We practice love and seek to find ways to encourage others. Paul said in Romans 5 that we have been justified by faith and have peace with God for God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit. This love is not just a feeling, but it is a person, God is love! If you want to know more of what the love is like read I Cor. 13 for it is enduring, patient, kind, not self-seeking and bears up under anything.
Let us ask ourselves what is our greatest love? Is it for Jesus or is it for pleasures, wealth, fame? Hopefully it is for Jesus, and we are experiencing His selfless love that He has placed inside of us that enables us to reach out to others and to know them and love them. I am sure we will also find that in the process we are filled with indescribable joy and peace.
Challenge for today: Ask the Lord to be first place in your life and share His love however He leads you.
Blessings on your weekend and prayers and love, Judy
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