The scripture “Faith without work is dead” is not a battle cry against grace. It is only stating the total impossibility of a person who proclaims a connection to God to not bear His character – love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness, goodness, meekness, temperance, faithfulness and righteousness. Character traits that when we become “one with God” – also instantly destroy the emotional pain in our lives.

With God it’s okay to be human. His love for you goes beyond every flaw, fault, offense, and sin. Humans are flawed. It’s the reason we need God. And it is okay with Him that you’re human.

Tired of hearing me talk about a touchable and tangible God? I understand. Is it really all that important? Important that God become this real, this…tangible in your life? What I found is that without your relationship with God being this close, this real – so much of what Jesus promised life would be like with Him…just doesn’t happen. DO YOU THINK THIS IS TRUE?

An overwhelming connection to God happens when our “heart becomes completely His” according to II Chron. 16:9. But the difficulty here is complex. If we really understand having a heart (thoughts and feelings) that is completely God’s, then we also realize this change only happens by a work of the Holy Spirit. A work made even more implausible by the fact that we actually rarely just “seek God”.

II Chron. 16:9 says “For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth to show Himself strong on behalf of them whose heart is completely His”. In other words…God is looking for anyone whose heart (thoughts and feelings) are completely His. And when He finds such a person? He will show Himself “strong” on their behalf. What does the word “strong” mean? For a real “eye-opener” read today’s blog.

Healing? Are we really experiencing what God promised? Think about it. If you believe what Jesus taught, you believe God lives inside of you! The Creator of the universe? Loves enough to die for you? Whose Presence can only be described in powerful emotional terms – love that destroys all fear, peace that cannot be explained?  Shouldn’t that make a real difference in our health? So how DO WE EXPLAIN this discrepancy?   

God’s love for you is incomprehensible. He loves you no matter what. Isn’t that amazing! Unlike any other has ever loved you. In fact, even if you slam the door of rejection in His face, God will not stop loving you. Why? Because His love is unconditional and unending. …OPEN THE DOOR BY GIVING HIM YOUR COMPLETE HEART, AND BE LOVED TODAY.

God changes who you are NOT by rules, regulations, and difficult commandments to keep. Nor by increasing your determination to live man-created religious directives. Nor even is this “God change” brought about by you thinking correctly about His love for you. God changes who you are ONLY by the giving and joining of Himself…touchable and tangible – God in you, you in Him.

There is an emptiness in all of us that is created by a “God-void”. We feel lonely, uncared for, of little value or worth…unloved. And even after giving our lives to God, often we still seek to fill this “void” by asking God to supply some “God substitute”. …Seek to be intimate with God with ALL YOUR HEART and wonderfully you will find that void filled today.

There are some things about who I am that once you get to know me it’s really hard to still like me. I understand that. They’re true. And I have to live with myself! Yet one of the most staggering things about God is that despite my flaws, faults, and those offensive things about my personality – He somehow just can’t keep from loving me. Isn’t that amazing! And the truth is…He feels the same way about you!