Love Obeys

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DAILY VITAMIN
- Love Obeys
"The person who has My commands and keeps them is the one who [really] loves Me; and whoever [really] loves Me will be loved by My Father...... " (John 14:21 AMP)"
The love God has for His created man, including you is something that can never be quantified or met up to; it is exceedingly superfluous in its own magnificence, and this He proved when Christ died for the sinner in you and I. Paul said "But God shows and clearly proves His [own] love for us by the fact that while we were still sinners, Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One) died for us" (Romans 5:8 AMP).
Yet, regardless of the consistency of this love, God said in an open letter to the Children of Israel through the hands of Hosea that ..''He would love them no more" (9:15), for the reason that they chose to repay Him with their wicked works. It is strange, right? For one whose love is unconditional to speak of being able not to love the recipient anymore?
Well, while it will never be a lie for me to say that God loves you, but if such a one as you continue in wickedness, it would be a big one if I said He is still happy with you. He detests wickedness. In fact, let's reason; if He could destroy all He took out time to create just for the presence of this same trait in the world, how long would it take Him to sideline a man He found the same perpetually and habitually delighted in it? Sin is God's ultimate enemy. And He promises to deal with it permanently. And as they say, when the tree falls, the nestling suffers.
Note, never take this to mean that God hates you as a person whenever you miss a step. No! Far from it because if He did, He wouldn't even re-inform you of it by the Word and desire your keen recovery through His Spirit: and it's all because He doesn't hate us, but sin; but if peradventure we allow this same sin to rule over us after the eternal redemption Christ bought for us with His blood, then we shall share in His wrath against sin.
Remember, we are servants of whom and whatsoever we faithfully follow- whether of sin through disobedience, or of God through righteousness. And every servant shall have a reward that is worthy of his master. That is, he can only receive what his master can afford. And of sin, that's death; but of righteousness, it's life eternal with God.
Thus, to maintain and kindle the ever soothing aura of God's love upon your life every day, learn to always keep Him near, and this we do when we stay far away from sin.....far away from the repelling force of wickedness, and closer to His path of righteousness. You have been called into righteousness, therefore walk ye in it. God's love is unconditional, but the proof of ours for Him is beneficial. Hence, in a quick word, STAY LOVED by STAYING RIGHT WITH GOD!
"The person who has My commands and keeps them is the one who [really] loves Me; and whoever [really] loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I [too] will love him and will show (reveal, manifest) Myself to him. [I will let Myself be clearly seen by him and make Myself real to him.]" (John 14:21 AMP)

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