Today’s Readings:
Proverbs 8
John 14
Colossians 1
9 Since we first heard about you, we’ve kept you always in our prayers that you would receive the perfect knowledge of God’s pleasure over your lives, making you reservoirs of every kind of wisdom and spiritual understanding. 10 We pray that you would walk in the ways of true righteousness, pleasing God in every good thing you do. Then you’ll become fruit-bearing branches, yielding to his life, and maturing in the rich experience of knowing God in his fullness! 11 And we pray that you would be energized with all his explosive power from the realm of his magnificent glory, filling you with great hope. 12 Your hearts can soar with joyful gratitude when you think of how God made you worthy to receive the glorious inheritance freely given to us by living in the light. 13 He has rescued us completely from the tyrannical rule of darkness and has translated us into the kingdom realm of his beloved Son. 14 For in the Son all our sins are canceled and we have the release of redemption through his very blood.
Colossians 1:9-14
The Lord says,
What do people do when they’re in love? They float through life, from one task to the next without frustration or difficulty. Their minds are are ever dwelling on the one upon whom their heart’s affections are set. They make plans for a future together. They honor, respect and aim to please the one they love. Bad days can barely graze those who are starry eyed lovers. It’s as if the world keeps moving and they are anchored firmly in the place of their love.
So it is with My lovers. This is how the lovers of God, the children of God, the seekers and the full-hearted pursuers of Me — this is how they live. All of My instructions seem good to them — not as a chore, but as loving guidance given from the hand of One who sees and knows all and only has good in mind for them. Their lips have a ready song and are eager to speak of the ways that I have touched and moved and brought blessing and hope and light into their lives. This is the lifestyle, this is the mode of operation of My lovers.
Yes they still see and recognize evil. They are not ignorant to the schemes of the enemy. But My love, My ways and My Presence supersedes all of these in the eyes of those who have Me as their first and most prized possession and relationship. When I hold the place of honor and authority and priority, the rest of life can fall into it’s appropriate place of priority. My wisdom and My love will guide you into that.
34 If you wait at wisdom’s doorway,
Proverbs 8:34-35
longing to hear a word for every day,
joy will break forth within you as you listen for what I’ll say.
35 For the fountain of life pours into you every time that you find me,
and this is the secret of growing in the delight
and the favor of the Lord.
Fall in love with Me. If you have moved into a ho-hum attitude about Me, about your life, about the future, fall back in love with Me. Pursue Me, seek Me in My Word. Praise, worship, sing and diligently practice thanksgiving until the lover’s love returns to your heart and begins to come to a rolling boil. All of this is within your power and your control. Your love for Me is a choice, is a practice, is a discipline and a lifestyle. As you return to your boiling hot love for Me, it will be your most favored place to stay. It will reanimate your heart and face and life. That’s what My love does for My lovers. That’s what the perfect circle of our love does when you step toward Me and activate or reactivate your love for Me.
21 Those who truly love me are those who obey my commands. Whoever passionately loves me will be passionately loved by my Father. And I will passionately love him in return and will reveal myself to him.”
John 14:21
This is not a time for lukewarm living. This is not a time for taking a backseat to your own life and future. No, to possess the land and the future, you must seek Me first, above all else, and life will become alive again. I hold all things together and apart from Me nothing that was created was made. Reignite your love for Me and find your life reenergized, reanimated, renewed. You will see and think and hear more clearly. The colors will be brighter and your senses will be awakened again.
Our love is the most important thing. Step closer to Me, and I will step closer to you. I love you. It’s time for adventure and to do life with purpose. Don’t settle for this “through the motions” lifestyle. These are days to run with the horses. These are days of wild adventures previously unimaginable. These are days where the impossible happens all around because of My Presence. Return to your first love. We have so much to accomplish together.
How to Respond
- Return to your first love. Ask the Lord to reawaken your love for Him.
- Dedicate and purpose to spend time in the Word revisiting and studying the great love that the Lord has for you.
- Make thanksgiving a practice and a lifestyle. Recount your blessings daily and even more often than that.
- Sing songs of praise until your feelings and your mind catches up with the words.
- Ask the Lord for fresh vision, revitalization and new hope.
- Declare that loving the Lord is easy and your natural inclination.
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