1 John 5:1-5 (NLT): “ Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has become a child of God. And everyone who loves the Father loves his children, too. We know we love God’s children if we love God and obey his commandments.
Loving God means keeping his commandments, and his commandments are not burdensome. For every child of God defeats this evil world, and we achieve this victory through our faith. And who can win this battle against the world? Only those who believe that Jesus is the Son of God.”
I liked a lot of what Selwyn had to say today: “When God instructs us to love. He is only commanding us to function in the way our personalities were designed to, from the very beginning. … The deepest need of our being is to love. … When God commands us to love, His voice finds an answering echo in the deepest regions of our heart. When we fulfil the command to love, we fulfil ourselves.”
God’s Spirit, living in us, helps us to keep His commandments – therefore the more we depend on Jesus to help us carry our cross, the less of a burden it will be. So simple to say, but I know it’s a lot harder to do – right?
No burden to love
1 John 5:1-5 (NLT): “ Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has become a child of God. And everyone who loves the Father loves his children, too. We know we love God’s children if we love God and obey his commandments.
Loving God means keeping his commandments, and his commandments are not burdensome. For every child of God defeats this evil world, and we achieve this victory through our faith. And who can win this battle against the world? Only those who believe that Jesus is the Son of God.”
I liked a lot of what Selwyn had to say today: “When God instructs us to love. He is only commanding us to function in the way our personalities were designed to, from the very beginning. … The deepest need of our being is to love. … When God commands us to love, His voice finds an answering echo in the deepest regions of our heart. When we fulfil the command to love, we fulfil ourselves.”
God’s Spirit, living in us, helps us to keep His commandments – therefore the more we depend on Jesus to help us carry our cross, the less of a burden it will be. So simple to say, but I know it’s a lot harder to do – right?