The Gospel of Peace
A Relationship of Love
Most Christians do not have a personal relationship with Jesus.
They have a personal relationship with their ideas, doctrines, and beliefs.
Relationships require time and effort, two things most people are not willing and sometimes not able to give.
Some people say, “Just give me some rules, and I’ll keep them.”
Rules require very little, but Jesus came to restore us to a relationship with the Father.
This relationship is to be built on love and trust.
After the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus came the Holy Spirit, the Comforter, the counselor, the Spirit of Grace and Truth.
The Comforter lives inside us and draws us into a relationship with the Father from our hearts.
When we come to know the love of God and His great goodness, we must realize the value of the relationship.
It is a wonderful thing to have a relationship with someone who has high standards, but who does not reject us when we fail to live up to those standards.
The fact that someone believes in you will enable you to get up when you fail.
God does not have one standard of love for Himself and another standard for us.
The love described in 1 Corinthians 13 is God’s kind of love.
We are required to walk in that kind of love because we are to be like God.
God’s love does not reject or condemn; neither does it allow us to do so.
Because we have an environment of peace and acceptance, we can continually draw from His strengthen until we do overcome.
John 14:21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
John 14:23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
Jesus wants to:
- Manifest Himself in you.
- Have a personal relationship with you, one in which He and the Father come and fellowship with you, teach you, and love you.
This is worthy all my praise!
Jesus loves us.
He comforts us.
When we are sick, He heals us.
We never have to fear.
We never have to lack because He is always there.
Why should we withdraw from a relationship that means so much to us?
The gratification of sin is not equal to the gratification of the relationship.
As we come to know and experience the goodness of the Lord, we will develop a loving relationship that is more precious than anything else in our life.
The fulfillment of that relationship will keep us from sin.
Love accomplishes far more than law.
This happens when we know and experience the love of God through an intimate, personal relationship with Him.
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