Good evening! I hope that you all are having a lovely week and making time to be in God's word! I hope that you have caught a glimpse of the truth that there is nothing sweeter and nothing more desirable than God's word to YOU! If this week has been tough for you, please hang in there and press on! We have been going through John in church and I was amazed at how much it went along with what we are learning about knowing God and his word this week.
In John 14:21, Jesus tells us "Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me."
In John 15:10 Jesus tells us "If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love."
I pray that this will encourage you to know that God's commands are not to be burdensome to us but to allow us to abide in his love. As we saw in Hosea, it was a lack of knowing God that led to mourning and wasting away in the land. God's commands are to protect us and allow our joy to be full! So reading God's word is for your good! And keeping God's commandments is proof that we truly love God. When we love God, our obedience flows out of us in response. And the more we learn about the truth of who God is, the more we fall in love with him! As 1 John 4:19 says, "We love because He first loved us."
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