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  03-01 “I Will Answer ALL Your Questions.” 03-02 The Will of the Flesh and the Will of Man 03-03 Self-will and Strong Will 03-04 The Danger of Liberty 03-05 A Chastened Man 03-06 Reconciled 03-07 “Reconciled” Response 03-08 “Reconciled” Response 03-09 One Way 03-10 “One Way” Response 03-11 A Checklist For Staying Free 03-12 Everything Jesus Is 03-13 Becoming An Unbeliever 03-14 We Cannot Even Love God 03-15 Seeing The Father 03-16 “You Are Still A Proud People” 03-17 'You Are Still A Proud People: Response 03-18 No More Church 03-19 “Church” 03-20 Because God Did Not Reveal The Truth 03-21 The Death Penalty 03-22 False Teachers 03-23 Leave The Saving To God 03-24 “That They Might Be Damned” 03-25 “A New And Living Way” 03-26 “Hard To Understand”? 03-27 Saving Love 03-28 With What God Is 03-29 Loving The Feelings 03-30 True Fasting 03-31 God Is Humbler Than Man

 

Thought for the Morning
3-27

Saving Love

Dear Bro. John:

God has been teaching me this week that “salvation is what is happening while we are loving and being loved by God.” And God even took me a little bit further and helped me understand all the more the difference between Christian love (love of the world) and God’s love.

I once again was listening to the “New Birth” series and you were talking about the spiritual condition of the disciples before they received the holy Ghost. You were talking about how, before God put His Spirit in them, they loved Jesus and God, they believed Jesus was the Son of God, but the love that they had BEFORE receiving the holy Ghost was not the same kind of love that they had AFTER God put His Spirit IN them (John 17:26; Rom. 5:5). They loved the only way they knew how to love before receiving the Spirit, but it was not the same kind of love as after they received God’s Spirit. After that, you said, it became “saving love.”

Jesus passed out that “saving love”, Bro. John. He touched hearts and gave comfort and hope and compassion. The love that the world gives is fleeting and cannot bring relief and comfort that the heart is in need of and crying out for. The “saving love” of Jesus does more than save just one - it is felt by all who are around whether they admit it or not. The hearts that need it the most are ready when it comes and welcome the relief it brings.

God has helped me this week to understand the difference between Christian love and God’s saving love. The first will leave you empty; the second will fill you up. Praise God!

“Saving love – my, it is so good to me! Can you imagine? Once I thought I was ‘saved’ ”. Now I am just loving being saved - every day - by God’s saving love.

Sister Sandy :)

P.S. The new “Night Music” CD that we all listened to tonight in your office was beautiful. There really are no words to describe the feelings brought on by this music. I’m just thankful that I have two ears to hear it and two hands to praise and thank Him for all He has done.