2 Corinthians 13:14
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
Tag: God’s Love is with us!!!
In Romans 8 we read the following about God’s Love:
Romans 8:37-39
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
We know we have God’s Love in our hearts:
Romans 5:5
and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
Paul wants us to know that we have both positional love from God (the Holy Spirit is the “instant” deposit of that love in our hearts) and growing and flowing love as we yield to the Spirit. One is a judicial act based upon Christ’s historic, real event of death, burial and resurrection (our Justification) and one is our experience (our Sanctification) producing feelings of assurance and acceptance. As we tied to one another we have the Love of God flowing into our lives, even in the deepest times of trials and tribulations. Note the following:
2 Thessalonians 3:5
May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ.
Our hearts are wandering. They are a never fulfilling bowl of desires. The desires of our heart, because of our sin nature, are unquenchable. The heart needs direction. That direction comes from the embedded love of God that dwells in our hearts by the indwelling Spirt of God.
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