Love is the Key

God is not human, that He should lie, not a human being, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and then not act? Does He promise and not fulfill? Numbers 23:19 NIV

Which key fits your heart?

Will it unlock the Love?

It became human nature to lie after Adam and Eve got deceived by Satan. Listen to what they said…“the snake made me do it.” No. They made the choice. If it is not a good choice, it may be a lie—a little bend in the truth. We are responsible for our thoughts, words and actions. God held Adam and Eve accountable for their actions by removing them from the Garden of Eden and pronouncing punishments on them—labor and pain.

God is not human. God is spirit—Jesus tells us that clearly when He spoke to the woman at the well.

For God is Spirit, so those who worship Him must worship in spirit and in truth. John 4:24.

In addition, during the last Supper Jesus told His disciple Thomas that He is the Truth, so we can assume from that that He cannot lie.

Jesus told him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me. John 14:6.

As we go through our Christian walk, we become more like Jesus Christ. That is God’s goal for us—to be like His Son. Paul wrote about this his letter to the Ephesians. Like Jesus, we’ll speak the truth in love.

Then we will no longer be immature like children. We won't be tossed and blown about by every wind of new teaching. We will not be influenced when people try to trick us with lies so clever they sound like the truth. Instead, we will speak the truth in love, growing in every way more and more like Christ, who is the head of his body, the church. Ephesians 4:14-15.

That’s a great goal…and a promise from God that we can claim. To not be influenced and deceived like Adam and Eve, but to become more like Jesus Christ and speak the truth in love. To follow God’s commandment…

And this is His commandment: We must believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as He commanded us. 1 John 3:23.

Prayer ~ Dear Jesus…I want to live just as You taught your disciples…to love one another proves to the world that we are your disciples. John 13:35. Love is the key to life…a pure life with no deception or lies. A life worth living that brings You glory.  

Daily Bible Reading: March 2 – Numbers 16-17

Birthday Memories of Uncle Leonard.

He would have been 100 years old today!

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