It’s Valentine’s week and I find myself thinking about love...about how I love my husband, children, family & friends and about the immeasurable love God has for us...and also, what a heart devoid of God’s love can become.
A heart, lacking the all-encompassing, unconditional, never-ending love that comes from a relationship with Christ, is left exposed and vulnerable and ripe for the filling of that void inside with the most heinous evil imaginable. It can harm every unprotected heart it touches and spread its blackness like a plague causing death and destruction of lives in its path. As dark and horrible and grotesque as that evil may seem, Christ can vanquish it. We’ve only to call upon His name. That doesn’t mean that once we’ve given our lives over to Him, that all our problems will cease to be. Actions beget consequences. But it does mean that from that point forward, whatever we face, we will not face it alone, and when we leave this sin-filled Earth, we will be with Him in Heaven, where there is no evil, no sickness, no pain, no tears, and no goodbyes. I’d rather spend my whole life believing and trusting in God and His promises than spend one day believing there is no hope of anything after this life is over. I’d rather spend my whole life believing in God’s love for me and loving people the way Jesus loves them than spend one day without knowing that kind of love.
My prayer for anyone reading this at this moment is that you would fill up your heart with God’s love. That you would surrender your heart to His keeping. There is no one who loves you more.
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." John 3:16
“Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.” ~ 1 Peter 5
“Therefore, put on every piece of God's armor so you will be able to resist the enemy in the time of evil. Then after the battle, you will still be standing firm.” ~ Ephesians 6:13
Amy 💗
