Pray and Obey

1 Peter 5:8-9 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

“8Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. 9Resist him, standing firm in your faith and in the knowledge that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kinds of suffering.”

 

Guard Against Distractions

 

I just finished posting a meme/poem called, “All Hands on Deck,” which is about our enemy Satan who is hard at work to get all of us to back down from our walks of faith in obedience to the Lord, in service to our Lord, and to get captivated and caught up in the things of this world, instead. So Satan (the devil) pulls out all his tricks he has in his bag of tricks to attempt to get us distracted from our service to the Lord so that we will not obey God.

 

Fight the Good Fight

 

The poem then encourages us to fight this battle against Satan by getting on board with God, instead, in serving Him and His will for our lives. Especially in the age of the internet, smart phones, and smart TVs, it can be so easy to get distracted and to waste precious hours or days on being entertained rather than in being a witness for Jesus Christ in spreading the truth of the gospel of Christ to the people of the world, like on the internet, for instance.

 

And Then..

 

And then as I continued reading in 1 Peter, I came upon this passage of Scripture in 1 Peter 5:8-9, which speaks on the same subject as the poem. And I will admit that, since I am on the internet daily, writing and posting daily devotionals and songs, and sometimes memes, poems, and video talks, too, and so I am on social media and YouTube and other internet sites pretty much 8 hours a day, 7 days a week, it is easy for me to get distracted by all these little stories which pop up here and there (not any bad ones).

 

So, I am praying and asking the Lord to give me guidance and direction in that so that I am not wasting time on those little stories when I could be using that time in better ways. Now I am spending at least 8 hours a day writing and posting devotions, and I spend time with my husband and with other family members, and I do household chores and eat meals, etc., so I am not talking about much available time here for anything else. But as I have spare time, I want to use it wisely, as the Lord leads me in what to do.

 

It Isn’t Just the Big Things

 

So, what is my point? Satan doesn’t just try to tempt you to sin or to disobey God and His commands. He does do that, indeed! But if he knows your walk with the Lord, and he knows he is not going to get you to sin against God or to stop serving the Lord in ministry, he will find other ways to distract you by drawing your attention to things which, in and of themselves are not sinful, but which could be stealing away your time that would be better spent on better things. So we need to pray for discernment.

 

And I am certainly not saying that we should go hide in a hole somewhere and never have the world touch us in any way or that we can never be entertained at all by movies, music, and stories, etc. Some short stories I have watched actually hit on biblical themes where they show the wrongness of prejudice, pride, false judgments, and mistreatments of others who are not like us. And they demonstrate for us the right way that we should treat other people with kindness, sympathy, love, mercy, and compassion.

 

Pray and Obey

 

If you are being tempted to sin against God and to ignore His commands, you must resist the devil, flee from him, and draw near to God in obedience to His commands, in surrender to His will and purpose for your life. That is a given! But when it comes to those things which are not expressly sinful but they are not necessarily overly righteous, either, that is where we need to pray and ask God for wisdom. For not all entertainment is sinful, although a lot of it is. But God may have a better use of our time than for us to turn to entertainment when we have spare time and nothing else is happening.

 

So, this is just an encouragement to all of us to realize that Satan doesn’t just tempt us to sin, but he might tempt us to waste time on things which could be better spent on something else. And this is not saying that watching a story or listening to something non-religious is in itself sinful. That would be legalistic to insist on that. Certainly we should stay away from what is immoral and what speaks against God, and we should not indulge in entertainment and then not obey God. So, we need to pray, then obey God.

 

Pray and Obey

An Original Work / October 31, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Refresh My Spirit, Lord 

 

Based off of Psalm 51 & Matthew 11:28-30

An Original Work / August 8, 2011

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Refresh my spirit, Lord. Revive my heart today.

Move me to serve You, Lord, in all I do and say.

Be my heart’s one desire; my spirit set on fire

In pure devotion, Lord, to love You and obey.

 

Create within me, Lord, a pure heart, this I pray,

So I can worship You and yield to You always.

May all Your love and pow’r be lived in me, I pray,

So I might love as You; be Your witness today.

 

Jesus says, “Come to Me all you with heavy hearts,

And find in Me your peace, and give to Me your all.

My yoke is light to bear, ‘cause I paid for your sin,

So you might be set free, and purified within.”

 

https://vimeo.com/126092767

All Hands on Deck

 Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

A Job That Needs Done

I took a nap this afternoon, and when I awoke, I woke out of this dream: “Someone at a higher level was given a job (responsibility) to do. He didn’t do it. So it was given to someone of (or at) a lower level, and he ‘sealed the deal.’” And then this is the passage of Scripture which was next:

 

1 Peter 4:10-11 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

“10As good stewards of the manifold grace of God, each of you should use whatever gift he has received to serve one another. 11If anyone speaks, he should speak as one conveying the words of God. If anyone serves, he should serve with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.”

 

Called of God

 

Now, all of us who are of genuine biblical faith in Jesus Christ are called of God to ministry. We have all been given spiritual gifts of God which are to be used for the glory of God in ministering to the body of Christ and in sharing the message of the gospel of Christ with the people of the world. All of us are to be speaking the truth of God’s word to one another in love. For when each part is working properly, it makes the body grow in love. We are all to teach and exhort one another so that none of us will be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness, and we are to stir up one another to love and good works.

 

[Matthew 5:13-16; Matthew 28:18-20; John 4:31-38; John 13:13-17; John 14:12; Acts 1:8; Acts 2:14-18,42-47; Acts 26:18; Romans 10:14-15; Romans 12:1-8; 1 Corinthians 12:1-31; 1 Corinthians 14:1-5; Galatians 6:1; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:1-16; Ephesians 5:11-21; Ephesians 6:10-20; Philippians 2:1-8; Colossians 3:12-16; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:13; Hebrews 10:23-25; James 5:19-20; 1 Peter 2:9,21; 1 John 2:6]

 

Biblical Hierarchy

 

But is there a biblical hierarchy to be in place to make certain that these things are being done according to the Scriptures; according to the Word of God? Yes! In the home it should be the man, the husband, the father, if he professes faith in Jesus Christ. He is supposed to be the spiritual leader of the family. And in the gatherings of the church it is also to be a man, but not just any man, but a man who is biblically qualified for the job of overseer and shepherd/pastor. And he is to equip the saints for the work of the ministry, for the building up of the body of Christ to maturity in Christ.

 

Those Who Lead

 

Those who lead the gatherings of the church are to be those who are leading God’s people in walks of surrender to God, in walks of obedience to His commands, and in death to sin, and who are then equipping them for the work of the ministry, for building up the body of Christ to maturity in Christ. They are not to be cult leaders who everyone bows to in loyalty and devotion without question. But they are to be spiritual leaders who teach us to be ministers of the gospel who help one another to grow in Christ, when each part is working properly. For all of us are necessary to help the body grow.

 

As Good Stewards

 

Who is a “good steward” of the manifold grace of God? What does this look like? A steward is a manager, an agent, a preacher, and a minister. And who are the ministers within the gatherings of the church? We all are! For to minister is to serve, to meet people’s needs. All who are of biblical faith in Jesus Christ are His ministers, servants of God, called of God to minister His love and grace to the body of Christ and to the people of the world. Both those who serve as pastors and the saints of God collectively are to be those who minister to the needs of the saints and to the people of the world.

 

Those Who Failed

 

Yet God has assigned that the men should be the ones to lead their wives and children and the saints of God within the body of Christ in surrendering their lives to Jesus Christ in walks of obedience to His commands and to putting sin to death in their lives. But so many of these men today have gone spiritually AWOL, i.e. “absent without leave.” They have deserted their duty to the family of God, and they are serving the flesh, instead. Many of them are living in immorality and in spiritual adultery and are now teaching lies to the people which are leading them to hell, and not to heaven.

 

Those Who Obeyed

 

So God is calling all who will to be His servants and messengers in taking the message of the gospel, not just to the world, but to the worldly church which has gone astray, to do what those who were given the greater responsibility did not do. And this is not about women usurping authority over men. But it is about anyone who is willing to obey God now giving out the messages that would normally be assigned to those with greater responsibility. It is about those who are willing completing the work assigned to overseers that they failed to complete. And because the people need to hear the truth spoken.

 

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 12:1-2; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; 2 Corinthians 5:10,15,21; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

 

A Job That Needs Done

An Original Work / October 31, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Ministers of Our God 

 

An Original Work / June 21, 2011

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Ministers of our God, harken to hear Him speak.

Have you given Him your hearts and souls today?

Hasten to give all to Him. Let Him cleanse your hearts from sin.

Cast yourselves on His altar. In your lives do not falter.

Ministers of our God, harken to hear Him speak.

Have you given Him your hearts and souls today?

 

Ministers of our God, flee from all your idols.

Remove them from your lives. Be transformed today.

Listen to the words I say. Give your all to Christ today.

Let Him rule within your hearts, cleanse from sin, His grace impart.

Ministers of our God, flee from all your idols.

Remove them from your lives. Be transformed today.

 

Ministers of our God, won’t you come to His cross?

Die to sin and yourselves. Penitently pray.

Humbly accept Him today. Let Him wash your sins away.

Receive Him into your hearts. His mercy and grace impart.

Ministers of our God, won’t you come to His cross?

Die to sin and yourselves. Penitently pray.

 

https://vimeo.com/127504455

Nearing The End

1 Peter 4:7-9 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

“7The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear-minded and sober, so that you can pray. 8Above all, love one another deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. 9Show hospitality to one another without complaining.”

 

Near to The End

 

Now, this was written a very long time ago, not long after Jesus’ death and resurrection. And the end of all things was near even then. So what did Peter mean by that? Perhaps he was saying these were now the last days, which they were and still are, before the return of Christ. And if you read the old commentators, they will vary in opinion on this subject. But does it really matter who is right and who is wrong? Not really. The point is that we will not live forever, and one day Jesus is coming back, and we need to be ready.

 

Getting Ourselves Ready

 

So, how do we get ready? Some people are fully focused on getting ready for some kind of natural (or unnatural) disaster yet to take place, and so they are encouraging everyone to have canned foods, water, and other physical necessities. Is this a good idea? Sure! But is that what this is talking about? No! This is about being prepared spiritually for Jesus’ return. We need to be living for our Lord in walks of obedience to His commands in holy living. Sin must no longer be our practice. We should obey God, instead.

 

People of Sound Judgment

 

We, as children of God, are to be those who have renounced ungodliness and worldly passions, who are now living self-controlled, upright, and godly lives while we await our Lord’s return. We are to be sensible people, people of sound judgment who make good and godly choices and who no longer follow after the patterns of this sinful world. Our thinking and our reasoning should be under the control of God and not of the flesh. So we should be walking in the ways of righteousness and no longer as slaves to sin.

 

Show Hospitality

 

We who are following Jesus Christ with our lives are to be hospitable people who invite others into our homes for a meal or just for a friendly visit or for a time of Bible study together, and the like. We are to be kind, thoughtful, and generous people who are sensitive to the needs of others and who reach out to help meet those genuine needs where we are able to do so, as led by the Holy Spirit. We are to be good neighbors who care about others and who represent Jesus Christ well in all that we are and do and say, for the glory and praise of God, and for the salvation of human souls. Be Jesus to others.

 

Love One Another

 

The word translated here as “love” is “agapé,” which is a love centered in moral preference. For it means to prefer. And in this context it means to prefer to love, and it means to prefer what God prefers which is all that is righteous, just, morally pure, upright, godly, faithful, honest, and obedient to God and to His New Covenant commands. This love comes from God and is not of human flesh, so we are to love others like God loves us. So we prefer to live like Christ in doing God’s will and in loving even the unloving.

 

Love Covers Over Sin

 

When others sin against us, we do not “trade tit for tat,” i.e. we do not get even with them by sinning against them. We forgive them. But we do not ignore the sin. We do not cater to the sin. We do not tolerate the sin. And we do not pacify people in their sins who are deliberately and habitually sinning against the Lord. The Scriptures teach that we are to call out sin for what it is, call people to repentance, and call them to obedience to God and to His commands. And we are to warn of the consequences of habitual sin.

 

The Gospel

 

For Jesus Christ taught that to come to Him we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) Him. For if we hold on to living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity. But if we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and we walk in obedience to our Lord and to His commands, in His power, then we have eternal life with God. For not everyone who calls Him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23).

 

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 12:1-2; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; 2 Corinthians 5:10,15,21; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

 

Nearing The End

An Original Work / October 31, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Devotion, as Written, recorded on YouTube

 

https://youtu.be/6UcLKLiS2Tw

 

Arise and Shine

 

Based off Isaiah 60

An Original Work / March 6, 2014

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Arise and shine; your Lord has come.

Allow His light to flow through you,

For many walk in wickedness.

Show them the way to life anew.

Arise and shine. Your Lord loves you.

 

Lift up your eyes, and look about.

Some do believe, while others doubt.

Believe in all God’s promises.

The many will, in Christ, find rest.

Lift up your eyes, and you’ll be blessed.

 

Arise and shine; salvation comes

To all who trust in Christ, God’s Son.

Forgiven of their sins, they’ll be,

When they repent on bended knee.

Arise and shine, so all will see.

 

Lift up your eyes, and see your Lord.

He will revive His church, forlorn.

Though humans have forsaken you,

They will find Christ, and walk in truth.

Lift up your eyes; God honors you.

 

https://vimeo.com/88371130

Do Not Be Shaken

1 Peter 3:14-17,4:1-5 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

14But even if you should suffer for what is right, you are blessed. “Do not fear what they fear; do not be shaken.” 15But in your hearts sanctify Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give a defense to everyone who asks you the reason for the hope that is in you. But respond with gentleness and respect, 16keeping a clear conscience, so that those who slander you may be put to shame by your good behavior in Christ. 17For it is better, if it is God’s will, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.

 

1Therefore, since Christ suffered in His body, arm yourselves with the same resolve, because anyone who has suffered in his body is done with sin. 2Consequently, he does not live out his remaining time on earth for human passions, but for the will of God. 3For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.

 

4Because of this, they consider it strange of you not to plunge with them into the same flood of reckless indiscretion, and they heap abuse on you. 5But they will have to give an account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

 

Suffering for What is Right

 

All throughout the teachings of Christ and of His New Testament apostles we learn that suffering is a necessary component of faith which saves, as are also repentance (dying to sin) and obedience to God and to His commands. For faith in Jesus Christ is not just so we can have our sins forgiven and have heaven guaranteed us as our eternal home when we die. For Jesus gave His life up for us on that cross to buy us back for God (to redeem us) so we will now die to sin and obey God and His commands in life practice.

 

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 12:1-2; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; 2 Corinthians 5:10,15,21; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

 

Now this suffering is primarily related to us suffering for the sake of the gospel, and for the sake of righteousness. And it can come at us in many different ways. Much of it is related to us and our walks of faith in obedience to our Lord and our testimonies for God and for His gospel message. For many people, including others who profess Christ as Lord, will take issue with us if we teach the same gospel message that Jesus and His apostles taught, if taught in the correct biblical context and not out of context.

 

Opposing Forces

 

Some people may kindly disagree with us while others will attack us fiercely and accuse us falsely of teaching a false gospel. Some who are very good at manipulation will use all kinds of tricks and schemes to try to trip us up with our words so that they will have cause to accuse us of wrong, like Jesus’ opponents did to Him. But when we suffer for what is right, we are blessed. So, we are not to be shaken by the opposition. We are not to fear them. But we are to entrust our lives to the Lord and keep following His teachings.

 

So, when we come up against opposition, or when people question what we are teaching, or when people ask questions about our beliefs and why we believe what we do, we should be prepared to give them an answer. If we don’t have an answer we should, if the Lord leads us to do so, search out the answer in the Scriptures, as led by the Lord, provided we believe it will benefit the listener if we do. But be discerning, because some people are just looking to pick a fight. Don’t let them push you in that direction.

 

Done With Sin

 

Now, just because we suffer in our human bodies via any kind of pain, it does not automatically mean we are done with sin. Many people who profess faith in Jesus Christ are truly not done with sin. Many of them are still living in lust, drunkenness, sexual immorality, unfaithfulness, idolatry, cheating, lying and stealing, etc. And those who still make sin their practice might consider us strange if what we are passionate for is to do the will of God. So they may heap abuse on us because we are just too weird for them.

 

So this has to do with us sharing in the sufferings of Christ. If truly our lives are surrendered to Christ, to doing His will, and to following His example, and so we are living the life God has for us to live in doing what He has called us individually to do, and so we are taking the true gospel message to the people of the world, we should be prepared to suffer as Christ suffered, which is not always or even primarily physical suffering. A lot of the suffering might involve rejection, persecution, false accusations, and abandonment.

 

[Matthew 5:10-12; Matthew 10:16-25,34-39; Matthew 24:9-14; Luke 6:22-23; Luke 12:49-53; Luke 21:12-17; John 15:18-21; John 16:33; Acts 14:22; Romans 5:3-5; 2 Corinthians 1:3-11; Ephesians 6:10-20; Philippians 3:7-11; 1 Thessalonians 3:1-5; Hebrews 12:3-12; James 1:2-4; 1 Peter 1:6-7; 1 Peter 4:12-17; Revelation 6:9-11; Revelation 7:9-17; Revelation 11:1-3; Revelation 12:17; Revelation 13:1-18; Revelation 14:1-13] 

 

Do Not Be Shaken

An Original Work / October 30, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Bow The Knee 

 

By Chris Machen and Mike Harland

 

There are moments on our journey following the Lord

Where God illumines ev’ry step we take.

There are times when circumstances make perfect sense to us,

As we try to understand each move He makes.

When the path grows dim and our questions have no answers, turn to Him.

 

There are days when clouds surround us, and the rain begins to fall,

The cold and lonely winds won’t cease to blow.

And there seems to be no reason for the suffering we feel;

We are tempted to believe God does not know.

When the storms arise, don’t forget we live by faith and not by sight.

 

Bow the knee; Trust the heart of your Father when the answer goes beyond what you can see.

Bow the knee; Lift your eyes toward heaven and believe the One who holds eternity.

And when you don’t understand the purpose of His plan,

In the presence of the King, bow the knee.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuZltbXH9KQ

 

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 Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Whoever Would Love Life

1 Peter 3:8-12 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

 

8Finally, all of you, be like-minded and sympathetic, love as brothers, be tenderhearted and humble. 9Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult, but with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing. 10For,

 

“Whoever would love life

and see good days

must keep his tongue from evil

and his lips from deceitful speech.

11He must turn from evil and do good;

he must seek peace and pursue it.

12For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous,

and His ears are inclined to their prayer.

But the face of the Lord is against

those who do evil.”

 

Like-Minded

 

Now, when Peter wrote to the Christians that they were all to be like-minded with each other, the mind that they were to be like was the mind of God, not the mind of human flesh. And this is critical that we understand this, for we have many “pastors” of “churches” who serve as cult leaders who convince the people that they must be like-minded with them and with their business models for how to “do church,” and with their teachings which are of the flesh and not of God. So test them all against what the Scriptures teach.

 

All of what this teaches here must be interpreted in a way which is in line with the teachings of Christ and of His New Testament apostles, in the correct biblical context, and not according to the teachings of human flesh. So please know that there are many men and women out there disguising themselves as servants of the Lord who truly are “wolves in sheep’s clothing” there to deceive you. For they take Scriptures out of context and they twist them to say what they don’t say if taught in the correct biblical context.

 

And The Others

 

Sympathetic should show genuine love and concern for other humans, but it must not be supportive of what is sinful, evil, and not of God. And love for our fellow Christians does not mean coddling them in their sin or refusing to speak the truth in love to them that they need to hear. For love prefers what God prefers which is all that is holy, righteous, godly, morally pure, honest, faithful, and obedient to God and to His commands. And yes, do not repay evil with evil but with blessing, because we love others as God loves us.

 

We must not be those who speak lies to the people, but we must be those who turn from evil and who do good to others. But the good that we are to do is according to what God calls good and not what the world calls good. For good in the eyes of the Lord is to follow the example of Jesus in speaking the truth of what God’s Word says to the people instead of the diluted and “friendlier” version of the gospel that so many are spreading today. People need to hear the truth spoken to them in love for their salvation from sin.

 

The Righteous vs Evildoers

 

And those who are considered as righteous in the eyes of the Lord are those whose lives are surrendered to the Lord to doing His will. For Jesus said if anyone would come after Him that he must deny self, take up his cross daily (die daily to sin and suffer for the sake of righteousness), and follow Him in obedience to His commands. For those who continue to do evil in the sight of God will not have eternal life with God even if they have made verbal professions of faith in Jesus. So obey God, turn from sin, and follow Jesus.

 

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 12:1-2; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; 2 Corinthians 5:10,15,21; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

 

Whoever Would Love Life

An Original Work / October 30, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

Return to Me

 

Based off Jeremiah 31; Cf. Revelation 2-3

An Original Work / September 5, 2013

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

I have loved you with an eternal love,

Which I give to you, in my faithfulness.

 

Keep your voice from weeping,

And your eyes from tearing.

You will be rewarded

With much fruitfulness.

 

There is hope for you that My family

Will return to Me; live in victory!

 

Though I discipline in My love for you,

My heart longs for you that you walk in truth.

 

Turn your thoughts to your Lord.

Choose to walk in His ways.

Turn from your sins daily.

Follow Jesus Christ.

 

Oh, how long will you wander in your sin?

Give your hearts to Me; be restored within.

 

I will satisfy ev’ry weary soul

Who repents of sin; is renewed within.

 

Behold, days are coming;

It will surely happen;

Though I discipline them,

They will thrive again.

 

I will be their One and their Only God.

They shall walk in white; be in Me, made right.

 

https://vimeo.com/115536688