What’s Love Got to do with it
There’s always this sense of honor and reverence to God, acknowledging how much we love Him and how we would do all we can to please Him. But the question is when everything isn’t working the same you think it should, do we still have those feelings of love. Or how about when God tells you to give up what you hold so dear. Do we sit to question Him or confidently let go. Theses are the things I ponder on. To say you love God is to let go. I look at all the great men of faith in the Bible and even the ones in our present world how they let go and how it’s accounted to them as faith. Can I get to the point where I trust God enough to let God? The other day I was reading the book of Acts 10&11 where Cornelius received the gift of the Holy Spirit. I began to mediate on the reason the Holy Ghost came upon him, and his household. It was because he believed and for some reason, I began to do a deep dive study on “believing”. I remembered reading about the teachings of Jesus and how He always emphasized the importance of believing in Him, the Father and even His words. Believing from my understanding is important to our work with God because believing leads us to building our faith and then leads us to trust God. This is the point God wants us to be at where we trust Him enough to give Him our all when He asks for it because in the end it comes back ten times more. I know we have heard of this so many times, “Give God your all”. So then why do we struggle with me included, why do I struggle, what makes me think I can’t do it; that is, give Him my all? Well, honestly, I cannot tell you the answer. But this I know that I have decided with the help of the Holy Spirit to continue my work with Him. Our transformation and even our knowledge of Him isn’t just an immediate transformation but a process. Even God knows this. Lol I mean He knows all things. He isn’t asking that I have it all figured out immediately but to trust Him through it. It is all a process. No wonder Jesus encouraged us to know His words because He’s words are the words of the Father. This allows us to go from believing to building our faith to then having trust. Why the process? Because we need the testimonies of other but also, we need and have our own personal experiences with God. My long epistle is not to say I have it entirely figured out, but I know that I Love the Father too much to hold on to the things He is saying for me to let go. I am writing this as an encouragement to myself and anyone reading this that it’s okay to not have it all figured out, but letting the Holy Spirit do His work within me and transform me and renew me daily.
