KEY SCRIPTURE: Joh 16:27 KJV” For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.”

God our Father loves you. This is a truth that goes for everyone but there is another encounter with God’s love that God demonstrates to those who love the Son.1Corinth 2:9 KJV” But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.” God loves all men, yet it is only those who have learned to walk in God’s love that experiences it. 1 Corinth 2:9 states that, there is an unimaginable wealth of blessings that God has for those who love Him.

Our key scripture tells us that God loves all those who love His Son. These are the people that 1 Corinth 2:9 describes. People who love the Lord dearly do not stay in their error. Like David, they quickly admit their faults and turn to the Lord. Loving God does not mean, that an individual may not err. He quickly turns to the Lord and accepts whatever corrections God may have for Him. King Saul loved himself so much that, he was always focused on His personal advantages.

1Sam 15:30 KJV “Then he said, I have sinned: yet honour me now, I pray thee, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD thy God…”

Saul was not thinking about the God he had offended, but his good image before the people. Sadly, Saul lived in misery throughout the final moments of his reign.

David murdered and took someone’s wife, yet because he loved the Lord, he was ready to humble himself before God and accept his terms. God forgave him, preserved him on the throne, and even saw his successor. The Lord described David as a man after his own heart. Would you go after the heart of the Lord so The Father would likewise show you His unqualified love, or walk in the path of Saul, who pursued his selfish agenda to his own destruction?

THOUGHT: LOVE FOR THE LORD IS THE DOOR TO GOD’S OVERWHELMING BLESSINGS.

FURTHER STUDIES

1Kings 3:3,5 KJV And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places. In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.

Psalms 45:7 KJV “Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.”