God proved how much He loves us by letting His only Son die for us. So how can we show God how much we love Him ?
The first Commandment is to love your God with everything you have, not to worship or praise or honor anything or anybody above Him. Does He say don`t love your wife or family ?, no, of course not ; the first thing God tells us to do as Christians is to seek the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and by this we will begin to know Him.
He also tells us to hand everything we have over to Him,why ? if everything is His already why do we need to hand it over. There is a cause and effect here, if we believe we love God and we do not give Him everything, then we are putting things above His supreme authority, but if we surrender everything to Him, our thoughts,our possessions our lives, then He will lovingly guide us and show us the best way to utilize everything for His purpose in our lives. We may not see God`s plan at first, but as we progress we will see it beginning to unfold and will be guided by the Holy Spirit.
If we do this, hand everything over to Him, then we find we have a greater love for those around us, not just our friends and family but for everyone we meet.
As we start to bring everything in accordance to God`s will we find we will be full of joy and peace, and everything else just seems to fall into place, not always how we want, but as our Lord wants it for His purpose not ours. This means a lot of overcoming, it means trusting God completely and this is not at all easy for any of us. Jesus told us to cast all our burdens on Him, that His yolk is light
. This means that God will never burden us with anything that is too heavy for us to carry, God knows us better then we could ever know ourselves, and He knows our limits, and would never give us anything we could not handle.
Not like the devil, who tells us to live beyond our means, rack up huge credit bills, and be slaves to the love of money and power which corrupts body and soul as well as drink, drugs, tobacco, illicit sex and all other lies that keep people in chains, and all lead ultimately to sickness and death, not just physically but spiritually as well. Thank God for Jesus.
You may say, but I AM happy, that you do not want to put God first. That is up to you, that is why He gave you free will, to be able to choose your own way to live. I have already told you the lies that the devil spreads,they are the same lies that he told Adam & Eve in the Garden of Eden, and he is still telling them today and people are still believing them.
The devil will not tell the truth to you, he wants to drag you down to hell with him. He hates you and wants to destroy you, he will give you your heart`s desire, providing it can corrupt and lead you to death and away from the love of God.
If only people knew what Eternal Damnation meant, if only they knew what being without God`s love will be like.
I am sure they would be glad to give everything they have to avoid that happening, but it will be too late once they die. For if you have not accepted what God has done for you, by giving His only Son to die for you; during this life, then you will face God`s wrath and judgment and be thrown into the everlasting fire and be tormented for ever and ever and there will be gnashing of teeth and complete darkness and no love will be found, just complete desperation. Again, cause and effect, Not accepting Jesus leads to God the Father`s judgment then eternal damnation......
BELIEVE AND BE SAVED.
If you do not have a Bible, there is an on line one for you here......http://www.keyway.ca/bibles/kjvindex.htm
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