My week just got better! ~~ Keeping ourselves in His love...

Jude 21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

                          But how do we keep ourselves in God’s love?

After all, God’s love is eternal, unchanging and constant. Nothing can remove us from the love of God. What then does this directive actually mean?

God directed my thoughts to my relationship with my husband.

 He loves me more than anyone on earth.

I feel secure, safe and protected.

There are times however, when we have a misunderstanding and my feeling of security quickly changes to insecurity.

When this happens, I put up a wall. I feel like I must defend myself. I withdraw from his love rather than keeping myself in his love. The wall I put up prevents me from experiencing his love.

In the same way, I will at times try to take myself out of God’s love.

Even though I know He orchestrates circumstances in my life to teach me divine truths. Sometimes these situations are very painful and that’s when I begin to doubt the truth of the Bible regarding God’s love. And I put up a wall…

His love for me hasn’t changed… but I no longer am experiencing His love.

For example, when our son died, Timothy, died suddenly and expectantly, and the enemy put thoughts in my mind like,

            This is your fault… if you would have been a better mother.

            God doesn’t love you like He loves other people.

           The reason God took away your little boy is because He is punishing you.

I began to doubt God’s love, and His love seemed small - like the smallest letters on an eyesight-testing chart.

There will be times in our life when we won’t understand God’s ways,

but we must remember that does not meant the Bible isn’t true.

It only reveals our limited understanding of God’s ways.

1 John 4:16, tells us “God is love.”

And we must make a choice – to believe the Bible from cover to cover regardless of our limited understanding or how we may feel.

It’s only when we trust and choose to believe that the wall toward God will come down and we will once again experience the warmth of His love.

AND WITH THAT I WANT TO REMIND YOU… LIFE HAPPENS LET’S ENJOY IT!

To Keep Yourself in the Love of God

Is to Know, Believe and Keep Trusting

In His Love, Even in Your Struggles.

This devotion came in part from thoughts about God.com