The Lord is perfect in all of his ways. He is so good to us because He always gives us a free choice. When we become a Christian we do not have to love Him. However, when we experience His unfathomable love for us why would we not want to love Him with all of our heart, soul and mind?
I John 4:11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
When we become a Christian the Lord sets us free. He does not set us free to do what we want but He sets us free to do as we ought. We can still become enslaved again or we can live in the freedom that He paid for with His blood.
Galatians 5:1 It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.
When we live according to the flesh then we become a slave again to sin.
Galatians 5:13 For you were called to freedom, brethren; only do not turn your freedom into an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
God's grace is what enables us to live in obedience to Him and to remain free. God's grace became available to us through the cross. Do not allow the free choices you have to turn the grace of God into licentiousness.
Jude 4 For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
Don't allow your freedom or liberty in Christ, which is your freedom to choose, become a stumbling block because you want to indulge your flesh.
I Corinthians 8:9 But take care that this liberty of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak.
If you love someone with the love of Christ then you will be more concerned about their relationship with the Lord than your own pleasures and indulgences. If you love the Lord then you will love His children.
I John 3:16 We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
It is by our love for one another that the world will know that we are His disciples.
John 13:34.35 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another."
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