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WELCOME TO GOD FOCUS THIS MORNING

The title of today’s episode: THE CONCLUSION

The word of God seems like an endless book. Every time I pick it up to read the word enlightens me in some way that I never saw before. People say it is living and breathing, because the word changes the reader. We are transformed by the word according to the situations we are currently walking through.

We know that God is love, but each time we walk through something, and God shows up to be our strength and help, we understand His love in a different way. The very basic idea is that love is a flowery feeling. But God’s love is so much more than a feeling. It is an expression of his greatest gift, a right to become his child. We were orphans, lost without hope, but Jesus died to give us the right to be adopted. We can continue to learn about His love a lifetime and still not figure it all out, because his ways are beyond us ever understanding fully.

The writer of Ecclesiastes summed up our duties as children of God as:

Eccl 12:13-14 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. 14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

The summary of everything is to Fear God and keep his commandments. It is the complete duty of man. Because this is a serious conclusion, it is not to be taken lightly. We must learn to love God. If we love God, we will want to keep his commandments and walk in his will.

We are not born knowing how to love God. This lesson was taught to me many years ago by my four-year-old nephew. His parents had been teaching him to say that children’s prayer at the dinner table, God is great, God is good… he was sitting at the table and has said that but continued to sit quietly with his head down. My mom finally asked him if he was finished, then he said some profound words… “Help me Love God, amen.”

I pondered those words for a week or more before I wrote a newsletter article about it. That is the conclusion of the whole matter, help me love God. Because the more we love him the more we will want to please him. The more we will want to do for him. The more we will desire to read the word so he can talk to us. The more we will want to pray and sit in his presence, the more we will pray and sit in his presence.

It is so elementary, but still so hard to obtain. We walk through times we feel like he has left us all alone, and we do not feel his presence. But to remind you when walking through times like this, love is not a feeling. God is faithful and consistent. He will always be there, even when we cannot feel him. Because he promised to never leave us.

Heb 13:5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

Jesus summed up everything to his disciples as:
Matt 22:34-40 But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together. 35 Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, 36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law? 37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

Jesus was saying if we love God, we will not desire to commit sin. If we can keep our God focus, we will not allow our flesh to give into temptation. If we love our neighbor as ourselves, we will treat them with respect and make sure that we do right by them.

Although, we think we know what these verses mean, everyday is an opportunity to learn a little more about what it means to walk in God’s love. It is a lifetime journey. We will never know all there is to know, because just as God’s mercies are renewed every day, so are the lessons for us to learn.

God wants us to be a sponge and openly embrace the journey. Spending time with him and learning to lean on him for everything we need. Life is a journey and every step we take will teach us a lesson for the next day. But the greatest lesson we can learn is how to love God and one another.

Until next time,

BE BOLD, BE BRAVE AND KEEP YOUR GOD FOCUS

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