HIS LOVE

 Good morning to you!

Did you have a great day yesterday? I pray that you did. It was such a beautiful day where we live. With all the rain we have had this year, everything is so green and pretty and the flowers are looking so beautiful. The color of this one azalea bush in my yard is so vivid as you can see. God's creation is so amazing and filled with His love.

I was reading a new devotional booklet I received. The whole booklet is talking about God's garden and today's devotional was about when He created the earth and the Garden of Eden. It was perfect and created with His unconditional and perfect love. Then, it was talking about another garden, the Garden of Gethsemane, which was filled with God's love for us through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. God knew exactly what He was doing when His plan included both gardens.

So, how is your garden, your lawn, your flowers, your vegetables? Are you taking care of them? Or are you letting the weeds take over and everything is overgrown already? Or what about the garden of your heart? Are you taking care of it? Are you nurturing and feeding it with God's Word? Are you watering it and pulling the weeds so that it is just God that you are following and living for? Or are you living just for self?

These are things to think about as each day goes by and it gets closer to the day Jesus returns to take His people to live with Him in heaven for eternity. The alternative won't be too pretty. As a matter of fact, it will be eternal torture. I don't want to be there and I don't want you to be there either.

Remember Jesus said with His arms stretched wide, "I love you, I love you, I love you." Even though He didn't actually say those exact words, that is exactly what He meant.
 
"So we have come to know and to believe the love 
that God has for us. God is love, and whoever 
abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him."
1 John 4:16

Think about it!

Have a fantastic day!

Les (lesbear)



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