Dailies In His Word
March 2019
So,
when did you realize that you needed God in your life? Was it when you went to
church? Or, maybe it was at a funeral when God opened up the rainy sky over top
of your Aunt’s burial site? Perhaps it was at a time when you realized you
could not ‘do life’ without help and that your help was in a God who loved you
even in your mess of a life?
Whenever
you chose to believe, to follow, or to accept Christ as your Savior and
‘received’ Him you began your walk. We start there, and accept the need, accept
the Lord but do we really understand what we are doing? O we realize that the
Love of God that we receive is going to change us in ways we could not
imagine? For instance, our opinions
about people around us, God changes our perception to see the good in people,
or the need people have when we really do not notice He has done it. Because He
loves us we can love others unconditionally—not foolishly but unconditional
love means in spite of their behaviors, lifestyles, idiocy or rudeness, we can
still love them and pray for them. Though it does not mean we have to hang with
them!
God
said to love others as we love ourselves; we can only love ourselves if we love
God first because God is love.
Beloved, may we love
one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he
hath been begotten, and doth know God; he who is not loving
did not know God, because God is love. 1 John 4:7-8 YLT
We need God in our lives because we need love; we need love so
that we can help others, and love and be loved. If for no other reason to know
that we are loved unconditionally, wholly and in truth by God, who is love
Himself, we need God in our lives.
Accept it!
Heavenly Father we need You every day, not just when we cry out,
or when the preacher says we do. Help us to all know the reality of Your Love
in us. In Jesus’ name, amen.
Teresa M Wilson