Tuesday Truth in Deep Love🤗❤️🙏
“My command is this: love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” John 15:12-13
How often do we see Christians portrayed as giving people? I’m thinking as I scroll through Facebook and flip through the television, that I see more of “us” preaching “personal salvation,” and “belief correction” than I do working on projects of service in love. Projects that actually reflect Jesus’s light and bring people closer to Him. Jesus didn’t have a mansion and servants, nor did He preach fire and brimstone. He worked in the trenches to heal bodies and souls and to show us the Way through Him. Most of us are familiar with His Word, at least to some degree, yet we tend to be more intent on speaking it than actually showing it. Not that we’re supposed to brag when we perform good works, but the love that gets reflected when we perform good works effects every soul we touch and every soul that they touch in a way that is solid, real, and eternal. “Talk” can generate cash flow and feed the ego, but I say only action in love will bring truth to the masses. Like the Toby Keith song says: “a little less talk and a lot more action.” Or as Madeline L’Engle said, “We do not draw people to Christ by loudly telling them how wrong they are and how right we are, but by showing them a light that is so lovely that they want with all their hearts to know the source of it.” I love that quote, and pray that I can live it as we walk each other through this piece of eternity into the next. With pure love. All in, and totally His.”❤️🙏
As told to Gianna Talone Sullivan, I am your Jesus of Mercy Vol I
SELFISHNESS
DECEMBER 22, 1988
My child, it is selfishness that keeps My people away from Me. It is their fear of giving up their control that is selfishness.
What is it that My people have by their own control that
I, their Lord, would not give them . .. and more abundantly?
They limit their own receipt of gifts. It is even during the celebration of My birth that My people are selfish! Giving gifts is a chore, not a pleasure, and it is those gifts that I have given to My people which are not shared.
Yes, My little one, there are many children who do recognize the truth of sharing My gifts, and who long for more.
They shall receive more! Yet, there are those who do not recognize their gifts.
My people need to learn the many facets of My truth!
They want to debate the theological commands of My Kingdom, but will not grasp the simple lessons I teach. How can I teach them fully, when they are not willing to learn the basic principles?
Many theologians gather and try to interpret My messages. They cannot accept My words as being exactly as they are written. If I say, “love one another, and have mercy on one another,” that is exactly what I mean!
A theologian will take that sentence and read into it various interpretations. This is the problem. They make the Man of Man out to be a distant and complicated God. The day will come when they will know that I am a God of love and simplicity Who wishes to serve you and your heart’s desire.