Sue J Love
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“But, as it is written, ‘What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him’— these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.” (1 Corinthians 2:9-13 ESV)
We who live in human bodies and who have finite minds cannot fully comprehend the things of God absent of the Holy Spirit living within us teaching us the things of God. Now we can read the Scriptures, and we may be able to understand them to some extent in our human minds, but we cannot grasp the depths of what the Lord wants to say to us through them without the Spirit living within us guiding us into all truth and making the word of God practical and applicable to our everyday lives.
So, what has God prepared for those who love him? Well, let me back up a minute and ask the question, “What does it mean, or what does it look like, to be those who love God?” Well, according to the Scriptures, both in the Old Testament and in the New Testament, we are taught that to love God is to obey him and his commands. It is to bow the knee to him in surrender of our wills to his will for our lives, and to walk in his ways and in his truth and righteousness, in the power of God, as directed by God, for God’s glory.
Now we can only do this because of what Jesus Christ first did for us in dying on that cross for our sins. For in his death, he who knew no sin became sin for us that we might become the righteousness of God. For in Jesus’ death he put our sins to death with him in order that we might now die with him to sin and walk in holiness and in righteousness and in obedience to his commands, and no longer in sin, but only in his power, by his grace. For this is what it looks like to believe in Jesus Christ to be our Lord and Savior.
So, true biblical faith in Jesus Christ results in us loving and obeying our Lord, and dying to sin, not just once, but daily. And loving Jesus results in us obeying him. And it is those who love and obey the Lord, via God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ, who are the recipients of God’s grace and of his promises made to those who are in Christ, via God-persuaded faith in the Lord. So, if you profess faith in Jesus Christ, but you are still making sin your practice, and not walks of obedience to the Lord, you are not recipients of his grace.
What God has prepared for us who love and obey him goes far beyond just our salvation from sin and the hope of eternal life with God. The Scriptures teach us much on what it looks like for us to be “in Christ.” And they teach us that the Spirit of God has gifted each of us with spiritual gifts which we are to use within the body of Christ to minister God’s love and grace to one another. And we each have an assignment from God, our “body part” within the body of believers in Christ, which we only know by the Spirit.
And it is only as we are able to hear the voice of the Spirit speaking to us in our minds and in our hearts that we are going to know what God has for us individually to do with our lives. And as we read the Scriptures, they will come alive to us as the Spirit speaks through them to our hearts and directs us in the way that the Lord would have us to go. For example, I would not be writing these devotions and posting them on the internet if I had not been called of God to do this, and if I was not being led of the Spirit.
And the Apostle Paul would not have done what he did if he had not received a direct calling upon his life by the Lord Jesus showing him what he was to do. Paul’s ministry was led by the Spirit each step of the way, and not by human flesh and marketing schemes for how to “grow his church.” The Spirit within him guided him in where to go and in what to do and to say, and to whom, and in how to respond to his opponents, too. And it was only in the strength of the Lord that he was able to endure the persecutions, too.
So, you want to know all that God has prepared for you? First surrender your life to him. Die with him to sin and now begin walking in obedience to his commands. Follow him wherever he leads you. The more you listen to him, and the greater your obedience to his commands, and to his personal guidance in your life, the more of himself and his calling upon your life that he will reveal to you. But be careful to make certain that you are hearing from God, for Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. Be discerning!
And make certain that when you read the promises of God in the Scriptures that you read them in context and that you apply them according to the stipulations which are attached to those promises, or according to whom they are being addressed. For, it is the Lord’s followers (his sheep) who listen to him (with their hearts), and who follow (obey) him, who have the promise of eternal life with God and that they will never perish, and that no one can snatch them out of our Lord’s hand (see John 10:27-30).
[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 1:12-13; John 6:44; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 2:6-8; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 12:1-2; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-21; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:5-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10]
Songs in the Night
An Original Work / December 18, 2013
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
“About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them.” Acts 16:25 NIV ‘84
Lord, I praise You forevermore.
You, my Savior, I now adore.
Hope in heaven awaiting me,
Because You died at Calvary.
I have been forgiven,
And I’m bound for heaven.
Jesus set me free from
All my sin, I say.
I will praise Him always!
Lord, I love You for all You’ve done:
Overcame death, my vict’ry won!
Jesus saved me, and now I’m free!
I rejoice in His love for me.
I will walk in vict’ry!
My sin is but hist’ry!
I am free to please Him
With my life today.
I will love Him always!
Lord, I thank You for giving me
A new life bought at Calvary.
Loving Jesus, I meet with Him.
Tender mercies now flow within.
Lord, I am so thankful;
Through my Lord, I’m able
To sit at His table;
Fellowship with Him.
I will thank Him always!
For Those Who Love Him
An Original Work / February 2, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
We who live in human bodies and who have finite minds cannot fully comprehend the things of God absent of the Holy Spirit living within us teaching us the things of God. Now we can read the Scriptures, and we may be able to understand them to some extent in our human minds, but we cannot grasp the depths of what the Lord wants to say to us through them without the Spirit living within us guiding us into all truth and making the word of God practical and applicable to our everyday lives.
So, what has God prepared for those who love him? Well, let me back up a minute and ask the question, “What does it mean, or what does it look like, to be those who love God?” Well, according to the Scriptures, both in the Old Testament and in the New Testament, we are taught that to love God is to obey him and his commands. It is to bow the knee to him in surrender of our wills to his will for our lives, and to walk in his ways and in his truth and righteousness, in the power of God, as directed by God, for God’s glory.
Now we can only do this because of what Jesus Christ first did for us in dying on that cross for our sins. For in his death, he who knew no sin became sin for us that we might become the righteousness of God. For in Jesus’ death he put our sins to death with him in order that we might now die with him to sin and walk in holiness and in righteousness and in obedience to his commands, and no longer in sin, but only in his power, by his grace. For this is what it looks like to believe in Jesus Christ to be our Lord and Savior.
So, true biblical faith in Jesus Christ results in us loving and obeying our Lord, and dying to sin, not just once, but daily. And loving Jesus results in us obeying him. And it is those who love and obey the Lord, via God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ, who are the recipients of God’s grace and of his promises made to those who are in Christ, via God-persuaded faith in the Lord. So, if you profess faith in Jesus Christ, but you are still making sin your practice, and not walks of obedience to the Lord, you are not recipients of his grace.
What God has prepared for us who love and obey him goes far beyond just our salvation from sin and the hope of eternal life with God. The Scriptures teach us much on what it looks like for us to be “in Christ.” And they teach us that the Spirit of God has gifted each of us with spiritual gifts which we are to use within the body of Christ to minister God’s love and grace to one another. And we each have an assignment from God, our “body part” within the body of believers in Christ, which we only know by the Spirit.
And it is only as we are able to hear the voice of the Spirit speaking to us in our minds and in our hearts that we are going to know what God has for us individually to do with our lives. And as we read the Scriptures, they will come alive to us as the Spirit speaks through them to our hearts and directs us in the way that the Lord would have us to go. For example, I would not be writing these devotions and posting them on the internet if I had not been called of God to do this, and if I was not being led of the Spirit.
And the Apostle Paul would not have done what he did if he had not received a direct calling upon his life by the Lord Jesus showing him what he was to do. Paul’s ministry was led by the Spirit each step of the way, and not by human flesh and marketing schemes for how to “grow his church.” The Spirit within him guided him in where to go and in what to do and to say, and to whom, and in how to respond to his opponents, too. And it was only in the strength of the Lord that he was able to endure the persecutions, too.
So, you want to know all that God has prepared for you? First surrender your life to him. Die with him to sin and now begin walking in obedience to his commands. Follow him wherever he leads you. The more you listen to him, and the greater your obedience to his commands, and to his personal guidance in your life, the more of himself and his calling upon your life that he will reveal to you. But be careful to make certain that you are hearing from God, for Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. Be discerning!
And make certain that when you read the promises of God in the Scriptures that you read them in context and that you apply them according to the stipulations which are attached to those promises, or according to whom they are being addressed. For, it is the Lord’s followers (his sheep) who listen to him (with their hearts), and who follow (obey) him, who have the promise of eternal life with God and that they will never perish, and that no one can snatch them out of our Lord’s hand (see John 10:27-30).
[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 1:12-13; John 6:44; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 2:6-8; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 12:1-2; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-21; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:5-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10]
Songs in the Night
An Original Work / December 18, 2013
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
“About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them.” Acts 16:25 NIV ‘84
Lord, I praise You forevermore.
You, my Savior, I now adore.
Hope in heaven awaiting me,
Because You died at Calvary.
I have been forgiven,
And I’m bound for heaven.
Jesus set me free from
All my sin, I say.
I will praise Him always!
Lord, I love You for all You’ve done:
Overcame death, my vict’ry won!
Jesus saved me, and now I’m free!
I rejoice in His love for me.
I will walk in vict’ry!
My sin is but hist’ry!
I am free to please Him
With my life today.
I will love Him always!
Lord, I thank You for giving me
A new life bought at Calvary.
Loving Jesus, I meet with Him.
Tender mercies now flow within.
Lord, I am so thankful;
Through my Lord, I’m able
To sit at His table;
Fellowship with Him.
I will thank Him always!
For Those Who Love Him
An Original Work / February 2, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
