Being Rooted In God’s Love
September 3, 2022
Devotions:
“by whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:” Romans 1:5 KJV
“but now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith:” Romans 16:26KJV
Paul talks about the obedience of faith. Faith in what ? God? Faith in His love for us. The Ephesians church started our with a great love for God.
“Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,” Ephesians 1:15 KJV
And they ended up doing ministry for some other motivation.
“and hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted. Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.” Revelation 2:3-4 KJV
God is not looking for us to just obey or serve Him. He wants us to serve Him out of love for Him. If we are not rooted and grounded in His love for us, when something that we think is better or hard times come we will leave our Christianity. We need to pray the prayer in Ephesians 3: 14-21 for ourselves all the time.
As we focus on how much God loves us and the incredible sacrifice that God in Christ has made for us our love for God will grow and our love for everyone around us. Secondly our faith will grow. We will become aware of how much God longs to do for us. As we step out to do His will we will be totally confident that the Almighty God is backing us one hundred percent.