Bro. John:
I had the most tender dream last night. I woke up just weeping for the love of God that has been given to us, and for the ones who have yet to find it.
In the dream, some visitors had come into our gathering. There were three of them. All that one of them (a man) wanted to talk about was the devil. He went on and on how the devil did this and the devil did that. It was not in any malicious way, but just how he was. When you heard about it, you said, “I can’t have that here. I just can’t have it.” Some of us went over to this man, and one of our sisters tenderly hugged him and said to him, “All you have to do is love God.” When she said that to him, he just started weeping like a broken little child, and saying, “I don’t know how to do that.”
When I woke up, I thought, we don’t know how blessed we are just to be able to love God. It is not in our flesh to do it. Loving God is a gift from Him. For the man in the dream, it seemed as hard to love God as it was easy for him to talk about the devil. It had become a natural thing for him. God has to change our hearts, Bro. John. I don’t know if we really realize how much we need God to change the habits of this flesh. It had become a habit for that man to talk about the devil. He didn’t even know that loving God would take that away.
Sandy
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Amen, Sandy! God help us to spread the experience of the love of God to others – to everyone! His love casts out the fear of the devil. More importantly, it takes our attention off that loser and turns it to the only One who is worthy of devotion: our mighty and wonderful God!
jdc