"Remain In LOVE"

July 15, 2010

“Remain In LOVE”

O’ Lord how I love thee. Show me your favor and grace me with your protection and keep me the apple of your eye even when I’m being attacked from left to right.

How do we keep to the apple of God’s eye and under His umbrella of protection? Most would say, we are the apple of God’s eye since He created us and loves us all, but how then do we stay under His wings of protection and continue to experience His love?

Here is the key:
John 15:10; If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Fathers’ commands and remain in his love.

Our protection comes from obedience. When we step out of His will and take on our own will embrace the bareness of His protection. This happens because He is a just God. He doesn’t force His will on us, but allows us to choose for our own.

How do we stay in His love? We obey His commands that are set before us. Why do we struggle with this? There are many reasons for the struggles, and I will not go into the many but share one that hits home for all of us. It is found in Genesis 4:7 If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must master it.

SIN is the root of not obeying the Lord’s commands and not remaining in His love. When we chose not to obey all of God’s commands set before us, sin is right there at our front doors waiting to master us. It desires to be our God. When we make a decision to ignore the truth of God’s commands and obey we have sin crouching and lurking trying to get into any place within our lives. We don’t have to let it in and then master us. We can choose to obey God and cast it down. We can’t do this on our own. In our strength we are nothing, it is only when we humble ourselves and cry out to God to help us. He says in our weakness we are made strong in Him.

Jesus said in Luke 9:23; “If anyone would come after me; he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. Our Lord and Savior says we must “DAILY” deny ourselves and take up the cross. When we do this we are found in obedience to His commands and will remain in His love. God loves you and longs to have an intimate relationship with you. Will you deny yourself for Him?

And finally; For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men. It teaches us to say no to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in the present age, while we wait for the blessed hope-the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good. Titus 2:11-14

Remain in Love my dear and beloved friends by obeying His commands. For obedience is greater than sacrifice.

With LOVE,

Pink Love Ministries