Yes, it is a great love that the Father has
bestowed on us! He has given us His only Son, Jesus Christ to die for
our sins, and if we will confess our sins, He will forgive us (1st
John 1:9), and He will fill us with His precious Holy Spirit (if we
desire), so that we can have the power to become His son or daughter! This is the true meaning of this text! If we desire, God will forgive us and change
us into His likeness, so that as we draw closer and closer to His love, we will
more and more reflect His love to the world. This is what it means to be a son or daughter of God! Oh
wonderful love of God! Not only does
He grant us mercy and help in time of need (Hebrews 4:16), but He also wants to grant us the joy of
serving Him, and sharing His love to the world! Luke 12:32.
It is the most natural thing in the world
for all who truly learned to love Him to reflect this love to all who are
around them. (How can you not love Him?) If you will just fall on your
knees, confess all of your sins, and yield your heart to His great love for you,
all this love, joy and peace can be yours! This is God’s promise to you, if you would have it!
“Beloved, now are we
the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that,
when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is.”
1 John 3:2 KJV. If you have confessed all of your sins and have given your
heart completely to God, then now you are the son or daughter of God. Every
day give your heart back to God, and recommit your life to Him. This brings you
much happiness and joy, for God never forces Himself on anybody, and He loves
it when His children give themselves unreservedly to Him! The fact that you gave your heart to God 5, 10, 20 or 30 years ago has
nothing to do with today. So do not deny yourself the truest joy of
giving your heart back to God each day and each hour! It will make you
happy! Why deny yourself this pure holy pleasure?
It will make God happy and He will fill you with His precious Holy Spirit!
And let not the stain of guilt darken your heart, when you can receive the
forgiveness of your sins right away! There
is no reason to wait for a convenient season to confess all of your sins. Acts
24:25. As soon as you sin make your confession known to God, that you may
come boldly to the throne of Grace and obtain help and mercy in time of need.
Hebrews 4:16. When you confess all of your sins,
and yield your heart completely to God, then when Jesus comes back in the
clouds with great glory, you will be able to see Him as He is, and will not
shrink back in fear. “But we are
not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to
the preserving of the soul.” Hebrews 10:39 NASB.
You can never come before God boldly
for anything, if you have any sin or stubborn willfulness in your heart.
So constantly make your heart pure and clean before God, by confessing all
of your sins of thought, sins of words and sins of deed. And then you will be able to come boldly
before His throne of grace for your other prayers and receive the requests that
you make, when your heart is pure! You can never have happiness or joy
while you still have any guilt in your heart. You can never be all that you can
be or be the son or daughter of God, if you have unconfessed or unforsaken
sins. But there is absolutely no reason why you must have guilt in your
heart or have unforsaken sins in your life, when God would be delighted to
forgive you and give you the power to become His son or daughter! When you let God forgive you, and when you
let God change you to help you to forsake all of your sins, you truly become
His son or daughter! This is a most wonderful promise that God has given
us, that He would want to call us poor sinners His son or daughter! What did we ever do to deserve this honor
or love? Nothing! God does this out of His heart of pure and
unselfish love!
No one but God knows the end from the
beginning. Sometimes you have uncertainty in your
life about the outcome of your life, or whether you will get the help you need
to survive or get by. Before you have given your heart completely to God, you
will have a lot of uncertainty in life, and probably some guilt, or unfulfilled
duties and dreams and desires of being a better person. You may have prayed to
God and made your petitions known, and struggled through your life trying to be
a better person. But you probably failed
too, right? Sometimes life can be very discouraging. Some people give up
thinking that they could ever break out of the rut they are in, and break their
bad habits and stop sinning, and they know that they are falling short of God’s
plan for their life. You just want to be
happy, right?
But even though things may look dark to
you, you can receive the help that you so desperately need in God!
Just throw yourself on His great mercy to save you: it’s what He’s been
waiting for! If you will humble yourself before God, confess all of your
sins, and just get to know Him, you will learn to love Him. If you desire
this joy, spend time with God, studying your Bible, especially the many precious
promises of His love for you, and faith and love building stories in the Bible,
and then praying as much as you can. As
you get to really know Him, you may find yourself falling in love with Him.
It’s OK! Just let it happen. When you are ready (you will know when you are
ready), tell God that you love Him and just give your heart to Him, and give
Him permission to do whatever He wants in your life! (You can do this before
you have fallen completely in love with Him!) Then give your heart to Him each
day. When you belong to Him you will
know it, your heart will be filled with such love and unspeakable joy! (If
you have continued to yield your heart to Him each day and each hour, and
always confessed all of your sins, and always obeyed His voice to your heart,
and what you have learned from the Bible, then this will happen and keep
happening.)
When you have given your heart
completely to God, you have become His son or daughter, and your whole life
will change forever for the better when this happens.
Then you will wonder why you never gave
your heart to God completely before. You will find that you have given
up nothing of value when you agree to let God be the Lord of your life, but sin,
misery and death. God’s precious light from the Bible will explode with
clarity that you never saw before, and your heart will just yearn to help
others and tell them how much you love Jesus and the Father. Then when Jesus comes back in the clouds
with great glory (Matthew 24:30; Mark 13:26) you will say, “This is my God in whom I have waited for!” Isaiah
25:9 NASB. He has come back to save me and take me to Heaven, just
like He promised! John 14:1-3. I
will go with Him and be happy forever!” All this joy and peace and eternity
with your God, whom you love, can be yours, if you get to know Him and give
your heart completely to Him! Everyone
that has this hope in Him (1 John 1:1-2), allows Him to make themselves pure and holy for Him. “And every man that hath this hope in Him
purifieth himself, even as He is pure.” 1 John 3:3 KJV. This
is the most glorious promise to us, that God is willing to make us holy and
pure for Him!
May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and
the love of God be with you! Amen.
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