Romans 13:8 “Owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law.”
Dear God,
How grateful I am that I know You, the Creator of all and the fount of all love. I am totally humbled by the thought, that when I put myself aside, and confess all my sins before You, they are forgiven, by You, in love, and I in turn am filled with Your love, which is needful, because I of myself cannot be said to be loving.
I have not always appreciated, that Your Ten Commandments, reveal that You are love, in all aspects of Your character. In the first four, we are asked to give You all our love and obedience, which is perfectly reasonable in my mind, because You made us and provide for us in every way. In the last 6 commandments, You ask us to love all other people we have contact with, or can reach, for they are all neighbours of ours and cherished by You.
I have found along with many others, that it is only when I obey Your word, do I fully experience Your blessings of joy, delight and fulfillment as a child of God, and appreciate the deep mental peace that this always gives me. You are truly wonderfully awesome God, of which there is certainly no compare.
Please forgive me for not expressing love more easily and freely. I know You can and will change me from the type of person I am into the one I am meant to be. I do not know my life span, even though I personally desire many years more yet. I do know however, that now is the time to change and move. Paul reminds us as Christ did when on earth, to put You first and be prepared at all times for Your Kingdom. Romans 13:11 “And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed.”
Praise Your blessed name, for because of the faith of my parents, I was exposed to Your teachings and accepted You at 14 years, and now that I have come beyond the fourscore mark, I regret not growing more in Your grace and in good works, over the intervening years. Thank Your for never rejecting me, and instead leading me on to a deeper love and understanding and away from my former shallow Christian experience.
Today I say with Paul, in Romans 13:12 “The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.” Therefore, again I accept Jesus and determine, to do as advocated in Romans 13: 14 “…..put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.”
I pray that many more people worldwide, despite not believing in You as Almighty God, will sometime soon put preconceptions aside and allow themselves to honestly learn about You for themselves. Only then can they find that truly the Lord IS good. For those that who have never been exposed to any message about You, Almighty God, hasten the good news to them, by person, or any technology available.
‘Lord of the harvest’ raise up reapers for Your harvest of souls; starting with me and anyone else who will.
Amen