Run With It

Tuesday, August 18, 2026

Disheartened and Discouraged

Jeremiah was a prophet of God, a man of God who loved the Lord and whose life was committed to the service of the Lord, to going to the people, and to saying to the people whatever God commanded him to say. But he was also human, like we are, and he did experience a great deal of flack (assault) and persecution from the people, so there were times when he got disheartened and discouraged. And this was one of those times. And this is what he said:

Jeremiah 15:10,18 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

“10Woe to me, my mother,

that you have borne me,

a man of strife and conflict

in all the land.

I have neither lent nor borrowed,

yet everyone curses me.”

And to God He said:

“18Why is my pain unending,

and my wound incurable,

refusing to be healed?

You have indeed become like a mirage to me—

water that is not there.”

Have you ever felt or expressed anything like that yourself during a time of being persecuted for righteousness’ sake? I have. I once went through this period of time when I kept getting knocked down (not physically, but mentally, emotionally) and treated with disdain, lied about, falsely accused of what I did not do or of attitudes I did not have, usually by others who did not even know me, but who made false judgments of me anyway, from very surface level evaluations or based on things they had been taught wrongly.

And I was not claiming that I was perfect in every respect, but that their accusations of me were lies, unfair, unjust, unkind, and without cause. And usually they were judging me by their own selves, by their own thoughts and personalities and ways of thinking, but not according to the Scriptures, and not according to the truth. And I did feel like I was drowning or like I was a basketball being slam dunked in the net over and over again. And I am most certain that I did cry out to God in my distress at those times.

I cannot recall exactly what the Lord said to me in every instance, but I am most certain that He was preparing me for “such a time as this” when He would call me to write down what I was learning from Him during my times spent daily with Him daily in His word, and to post these writings on the internet, so that “a herald may run with it,” “Run With It” then becoming the name of my blogs. All of this was in preparation to get me ready for what God had planned for my life that I didn’t yet know about, but I do now.

But this was God’s response to Jeremiah in his time of distress:

Jeremiah 15:19-21 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

Therefore this is what the LORD says:

“If you return, I will restore you;

you will stand in My presence.

And if you speak words that are noble instead of worthless,

you will be My spokesman.

It is they who must turn to you,

but you must not turn to them.

20Then I will make you a wall to this people,

a fortified wall of bronze;

they will fight against you

but will not overcome you,

for I am with you to save and deliver you,

declares the LORD.

21I will deliver you from the hand of the wicked

and redeem you from the grasp of the ruthless.”

Now, if we read through the whole chapter, we will see that Jeremiah was not turning away from the Lord, but that he was lamenting his own suffering. He was discouraged. He was disheartened. And his strength was failing him. So he needed to return to fully putting his trust in the Lord, resting in Him, believing that God had called him to this ministry, and for a good purpose, and that God would give him all that he needed to do the will of God despite being mistreated and persecuted for righteousness’ sake.

And God may be now speaking to some of us who are serving Him with our lives who are feeling disheartened, and in order to encourage us to keep the faith, to stand strong, and to keep going in the strength of the Lord, even when things look hopeless. For believe me when I tell you that speaking the words of God from the Scriptures, in their correct biblical context, at a time when so many are teaching lies, and when so many are believing the lies, will not normally gain you popularity. You may rather be largely ignored.

No matter how we are treated by others, we are to obey God’s callings on our individual lives. And all of us who are of faith in Jesus Christ are to be the Lord’s servants and messengers in taking the true gospel message to the people of the world. We must not compromise the truth of the gospel just so that people will like us. But we must keep speaking the truth even if most of them hate us or just don’t like us or they just ignore us. For this is about the salvation of human lives out from slavery to sin so that they will now obey God with their lives and have salvation from sin and eternal life with God.

[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]

Disheartened and Discouraged

An Original Work / August 18, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

My Prayer

An Original Work / May 30, 2011

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

“Fill me with Your Spirit; help me to love others;

Let me know Your power; be an overcomer.

Show me how to follow Jesus Christ, my Savior;

Be His faithful servant to obey Him always.

“Lead me with Your presence; help me know the right way;

Teach me love and kindness, generous compassion.

Give me grace and courage to be Jesus’ witness,

Teaching His salvation to a world who needs Him.”

Won’t you come and follow Jesus Christ, your Savior?

He died so you’d be free of control of your sin;

Free to follow His ways in complete surrender;

Living sacrifices – let His grace transform you.

https://vimeo.com/122052093

Those Who are Greedy for Gain

Jeremiah 8:4-7 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

4So you are to tell them this is what the LORD says:

“Do men fall and not get up again?

Does one turn away and not return?

5Why then have these people turned away?

Why does Jerusalem always turn away?

They cling to deceit;

they refuse to return.

6I have listened and heard;

they do not speak what is right.

No one repents of his wickedness,

asking, ‘What have I done?’

Everyone has pursued his own course

like a horse charging into battle.

7Even the stork in the sky

knows her appointed seasons.

The turtledove, the swift, and the thrush

keep their time of migration,

but My people do not know

the requirements of the LORD.

I live in the USA, so I can only speak of what I know of what is going on within my nation, and I do not know everything. But I have been part of the body of Christ since age 7, and I am now age 76, four months away from turning age 77. And I have lived in many US states and cities, and I have participated in ministry in many different church gatherings, of at least 4 different church denominations (Methodist, Presbyterian, Baptist, and Christian & Missionary Alliance), so I have a pretty fair pulse on it all.

And what I have witnessed, and had confirmed by many other followers of Christ who have observed the same, is that the vast majority of what is called “church” in my nation has gone the way of the world. They have joined forces with the government (merged with the state) and with the world and they have turned their gatherings into places of business to be marketed to the people of the world, all of which God forbids. Thus, many have altered the gospel of Christ to make it more acceptable to the world.

[Matthew 21:12-13; John 2:13-17; Acts 5:27-32; 1 Corinthians 1:10-13; 1 Corinthians 3:1-9; 2 Corinthians 6:14-18; Philippians 3:18-19; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22; Revelation 13:5-8; Revelation 18:1-5]

So many of them now are teaching a very diluted gospel message which does not require repentance (death to sin) and obedience to God’s commands as critical components of faith which saves. Or if they do teach these, often they will teach them as recommended, but not as required. And so we have many professing Christians who have not denied self and died to sin, and for whom obedience to God’s commands is not what they practice, but who still live life their way, doing what pleases the flesh and not God.

Jeremiah 8:8-9 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

8How can you say, ‘We are wise,

and the Law of the LORD is with us,’

when in fact the lying pen of the scribes

has produced a deception?

9The wise will be put to shame;

they will be dismayed and trapped.

Since they have rejected the word of the LORD,

what wisdom do they really have?

But while so many of what are called “churches” are partnered with the state and with the world, and are following the ways of man, and not of God, in order to win the world to their gatherings, they are promoting themselves as the true church, the one under the authority of God, teaching the truths of the Scriptures. But these businesses called “church” are not the church. We who by faith in Jesus Christ who have denied self, died to sin, and who are walking in obedience to our Lord’s commands, in practice, are His church.

And this does not mean we are all perfect. But none of us should be living according to the flesh and not according to our Lord and to the teachings of the Scriptures. All of us who profess faith in Jesus Christ are to be living in submission to the will of God for our lives, in holy living, according to God’s expressed will and purpose for our lives. All of us should have our lives surrendered to the Lord, walking in His ways, doing what He commands, living morally pure, upright, and godly lives until our Lord returns.

Jeremiah 8:10-12 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

10..For from the least of them to the greatest,

all are greedy for gain;

from prophet to priest,

all practice deceit.

11They dress the wound of the daughter of My people

with very little care,

saying, ‘Peace, peace,’

when there is no peace at all.

12Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed?

No, they have no shame at all;

they do not even know how to blush.

So they will fall among the fallen;

when I punish them, they will collapse,

says the LORD.

Sadly, so many who profess faith in Jesus Christ who are serving as pastors and elders of church congregations (or of what are falsely being called “churches”) are worldly men, living to please the flesh, following after the ways of the world, teaching lies to the people. They are mainly focused on doing what will attract the world to their gatherings in order to grow their numbers, and so they willfully teach half-truths (lies) in order to appease human flesh and to not offend the people they want in their gatherings.

So, they will treat those in their congregations who are willfully, deliberately, and habitually living in sin, addicted to immorality and all sorts of other sins, with “kid gloves,” pacifying them in their sins. And they will lie to them and tell them that if they made a confession of Christ as Savior that they are now guaranteed salvation from sin and eternal life with God, regardless of how they live. And so they say, “Peace, peace” to them when there is no peace, because they are not at peace with God if they habitually sin.

But they are not ashamed of what they are doing to the people in teaching them lies and appeasing them in their habitual and deliberate sins. But it isn’t just that. They also attack those of us who are teaching the truth of the gospel, and they try to convince the people that we are the liars, even though the Scriptures clearly teach we must deny self, die to sin, and follow our Lord in obedience to His commands, in life practice, in the power of God, by His grace, if we are to have salvation from sin and eternal life with God.

Those Who are Greedy for Gain

An Original Work / August 18, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

The Heart of Man

Based off Matthew 15:1-20; Mark 7:1-23

An Original Work / April 4, 2012

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Listen to me ev’ryone and

Understand this teaching of Christ:

Why do you break the commands

Of God for the sake of tradition?

When you follow the ways of man,

And don’t obey the words of Christ,

You nullify the words of God,

And you hold to the ways of man.

What comes out of a man’s mouth is

What makes him unclean and dirty.

The things that come out of the mouth

Come from the heart, from within him.

The heart of man is so sinful;

From his nature, out comes evil:

Lying, cursing, greed and malice,

Lust and lewdness, deceit, slander.

Jesus calls us to obey Him;

Turn from our sins; follow His ways.

Yet, His people honor Him with their lips,

but their hearts not with Him.

Their worship of God is in vain.

Their teachings are rules taught by man.

Jesus calls us; gently leads us

To return and follow His truth.

https://vimeo.com/125490002

Monday, August 17, 2026

Do Not Believe the Liars

Jeremiah 7:1-7 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

1This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, 2“Stand in the gate of the house of the LORD and proclaim this message: Hear the word of the LORD, all you people of Judah who enter through these gates to worship the LORD. 3Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: Correct your ways and deeds, and I will let you live in this place. 4Do not trust in deceptive words, saying:

‘This is the temple of the LORD,

the temple of the LORD,

the temple of the LORD.’

5For if you really correct your ways and deeds, if you act justly toward one another, 6if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods to your own harm, 7then I will let you live in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.”

Translated to the times in which we live today, under the New Covenant with God – Father, Son Jesus Christ, and Holy Spirit – the temple of the Lord is no longer a physical building in a particular physical location. We, the people of God, who are of faith in Jesus Christ, are now that temple, the temple of God. And the gate of the house of the Lord is not a physical gate but it is the way into relationship with Jesus Christ by faith in Him in denying self, dying to sin, and in following the Lord in obedience to His commands, by His grace.

So, also translated to today, this would be speaking to all who have professed faith in Jesus Christ. And the message is to call out hypocrisy and false forms of worship, perhaps even done in front of others to give a false impression of genuine faith in the Lord, or to promote a particular institutional church gathering in order to increase its attendance. And it was to call them to genuine repentance, to leave their sins behind them and to follow the Lord where they will then be accepted into the family of God.

Jeremiah 7:8-11 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

“8But look, you keep trusting in deceptive words to no avail. 9Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known, 10and then come and stand before Me in this house, which bears My Name, and say, ‘We are delivered, so we can continue with all these abominations’? 11Has this house, which bears My Name, become a den of robbers in your sight? Yes, I too have seen it, declares the LORD.”

But the problem was that the people kept listening to deceptive words, and that is actually where so many who profess Christ as Lord are today. For so many men serving as “pastors” of church congregations are not godly men, being led of the Spirit of God in what to teach, but they are cult leaders and business men who are following the ways of the flesh, and who are following after lies, who are following the ways of marketing schemes and business plans on how to “grow their churches,” rather than being led by the Spirit.

So many of them have, thus, diluted and altered the message of the gospel of our salvation in order to be less offensive and more pleasing to the people of the world who they are trying to attract to their gatherings. And so many of them are now teaching that God does not require repentance (death to sin) and obedience to His commands as part of faith which saves. And so they are giving the people permission to keep on in deliberate and habitual sin, in stealing, murdering, committing adultery, perjury and idol worship.

Jeremiah 7:12-15 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

“12But go now to the place in Shiloh where I first made a dwelling for My Name, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel. 13And now, because you have done all these things, declares the LORD, and because I have spoken to you again and again but you would not listen, and I have called to you but you would not answer, 14therefore what I did to Shiloh I will now do to the house that bears My Name, the house in which you trust, the place that I gave to you and your fathers. 15And I will cast you out of My presence, just as I have cast out all your brothers, all the descendants of Ephraim.”

So, what the Lord is saying to those who profess His name today is that we must all live the life God has called us to live, in practice, for us to have salvation from sin and eternal life with God. And this is not a one time thing we do and now we are good to go for eternity. Our salvation, although it has a beginning, is progressive. We must deny self, die to sin, and obey God as a matter of life practice, not just in profession with one’s lips. And this does not mean we will never fail (1 John 2:1-2) but sin must not be our practice.

For there is a warning for us here that if sin is what we continue in, because we have been convinced by the liars that God is okay with that, which He is definitely not, that when the time comes for God to judge, and we stand before Him, He will deny that He knew us, and He will cast us out of His presence. We will not have salvation from sin and we will not have eternal life with God if we do not repent of (turn from) our sins and now obey God in life practice. So we need to believe this and obey God and not the flesh.

Do Not Believe the Liars

An Original Work / August 17, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Just Are You

Based off Revelation 15-16

An Original Work / August 26, 2013

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Great and marvelous are Your deeds, O God.

Just and true Your ways, King of all the earth.

Who will not fear You; glorify Your name?

You are righteousness. Praise Your Name!

Just are You, O Lord, our Eternal ONE,

For You judge the earth in Your righteousness.

They have shed the blood of Your righteous ones.

You give their reward. They’re to blame!

Kings of all the earth gather, one accord;

Make haste to engage in a mighty war.

They oppose the Lord and His holy saints.

They serve wickedness, to their shame!

Jesus comes again, to some unforeseen.

Blessed are those who wait for Him at the gate.

They’ll not be ashamed. “Glad” be their refrain.

When He comes again, He’ll remain!

https://vimeo.com/115579013

Where is The Good Way?

At the time this was written by Jeremiah, under the inspiration of the Spirit of God, the Jews only (biblical Israel of that time) were God’s chosen people. Today God’s chosen people are all who are of genuine biblical faith in Christ, whether Jew or Gentile by physical birth. And all Jews who have rejected Jesus Christ as their Messiah are no longer God’s chosen people. But not all Israel of that time were of genuine biblical faith in the Lord God, just as not all who profess faith in Jesus Christ today are truly part of God’s family.

Israel Today: [Matthew 21:43; John 8:18-19,38-47; John 10:16; Romans 2:28-29; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 9:4-8,25-28; Romans 11:1-36; 1 Corinthians 3:16-17; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; 2 Corinthians 6:14-18; Galatians 3:16,26-29; Galatians 4:22-31; Ephesians 2:11-22; Ephesians 3:1-6; Colossians 3:12-15; Titus 2:14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-16; Hebrews 8:6-13; 1 Peter 2:9-10,24; 1 John 2:22; Jude 1:5; Revelation 2:9; Revelation 3:9; see also Genesis 17:7-9; Genesis 18:19]

Jeremiah 6:10-11 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

This is what the Lord of Hosts says:

“10To whom can I give this warning?

Who will listen to me?

Look, their ears are closed,

so they cannot hear.

See, the word of the LORD has become offensive to them;

they find no pleasure in it.

11But I am full of the LORD’s wrath;

I am tired of holding it back.”

Now, in this writing, this will be addressed to all who profess faith in Jesus Christ but who are not living the faith which they profess. For so many are listening to the teachings of man (humans) and they are ignoring the teachings of God in the New Testament under the New Covenant God has with His people Israel (Jew and Gentile by faith in Jesus Christ). Thus, many are believing lies taught by humans while they are also being taught to reject the truth of the gospel taught by Jesus and by his NT apostles.

So many prospective or professing Christians are being taught that they do not have to deny self, die to sin (repent), and obey God in life practice. They are being taught that all they have to do is “believe,” which is not usually biblically defined. But the faith to believe in Jesus is not of our own doing, but it is of God, and it is gifted to us by God, and it is persuaded of God as to His righteousness and holiness, and of our sinfulness, and of God’s requirement that we must turn from our sins and obey God in practice.

Jeremiah 6:13-15 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

“13For from the least of them to the greatest,

all are greedy for gain;

from prophet to priest,

all practice deceit.

14They dress the wound of My people

with very little care,

saying, ‘Peace, peace,’

when there is no peace at all.

15Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed?

No, they have no shame at all;

they do not even know how to blush.

So they will fall among the fallen;

when I punish them, they will collapse,”

says the LORD.

Now this does not apply to everyone who professes faith in Jesus Christ today. But it could very well describe the majority of those calling themselves Christians today. For it appears that the majority are now buying into an altered “gospel” message, which is not the gospel taught by Jesus and by His apostles. And they are being taught to just enjoy life, to go the easy way, that God can’t even see when they sin anymore, and if they feel guilty for sinning that they should just claim “who you are in Christ.”

But we are not “in Christ” by faith in Him unless, by that faith we have denied self, died to sin, and we are now walking (in conduct) in obedience to our Lord and to His commands, as a matter of life practice. And this is not to say that we will never sin (1 John 2:1-2), but that sin must no longer be our habit, our practice, i.e. what we keep going back to over and over again with the same results, and without biblical repentance. But there is no “peace” for those who continue in sin and who do not obey God in life practice.

Jeremiah 6:16-19 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

16This is what the LORD says:

“Stand at the crossroads and look.

Ask for the ancient paths: ‘Where is the good way?’

Then walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls.

But they said, ‘We will not walk in it!’

17I appointed watchmen over you and said,

‘Listen for the sound of the ram’s horn.’

But they answered, ‘We will not listen!’

18Therefore hear, O nations,

and learn, O congregations,

what will happen to them.

19Hear, O earth! I am bringing disaster on this people,

the fruit of their own schemes,

because they have paid no attention to My word

and have rejected My instruction.”

This happens to be one of my most favorite Old Testament passages of Scripture. So, what are crossroads? They can be a physical place where two roads meet and cross, or they can have to do with a critical point in anyone’s life where a major choice must be made as to which direction to go, i.e. which path to take, but not just physically, but morally and spiritually. And the latter is what is intended here. We all must make the choice to either follow God in obedience or to keep doing things “our way,” by the flesh.

So, what are “the ancient paths”? Where is “the good way”? They are the truths of the Scriptures which teach us that we must die to sin and live for God, and that daily we must die to sin and walk in obedience to the Lord. And we are not talking Old Covenant here. We are talking New Covenant teachings which were also taught in the Old Testament. If we do not die to sin and obey our Lord, in the power of God, by biblical faith in Him, which comes from God, we do not have salvation from sin nor eternal life in him.

And who are the “watchmen” of God today? They can be man or woman, but they must be those whose lives are surrendered to the will and purpose of God for our lives, as taught in the Scriptures in the correct biblical context. And our assignment from God is to share with the people what the Scriptures teach about God/Christ and our salvation, and to warn the people against falling into sin and against believing the lies of the enemy, and to call the people to repentance and to obedience to our Lord and to His commands, and to warn of judgment if they choose their sins over God.

Sadly, so many are not listening to the watchmen and to the Scriptures and to the Word of God written for us in the Scriptures, but they are listening to human flesh and to the teachings of man (humans) which are of the flesh and not of God, and not in agreement with the Scriptures taught in their correct biblical context. And they are listening to the “feel good” preaching which tells them that they can keep on in their sin and that God will not judge them since they professed faith in Jesus Christ. But they are listening to lies, and that will not end well for them. For hell will be their destiny.

Where is The Good Way?

An Original Work / August 17, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Walking in The Light

Based off 1 John 1-2

An Original Work / November 16, 2011

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

When I lift up my voice, and sing praise unto God,

I will fellowship with my Lord and Savior, King.

In Him there is no darkness. He is in the light of truth.

If we walk in His light, from sin He purifies.

If we repent of our sins, He’ll forgive us now,

When we humble ourselves, and before Jesus bow.

The man who says, “I know Him,” but does not obey His truth,

There is no truth in him. In darkness still he’s found.

Do not love the world of sin, for it is hell bound.

If you follow the world, you’ll not in Christ be found.

The world and its desires will not last; they’ll expire.

The one who does God’s will, receives eternal life.

See that what you have heard from Christ remains in you.

Then, you’ll remain in Christ, and in His Father, too.

This is what He promised us – His eternal life with God.

So, continue in Him, and you’ll receive a crown.

https://vimeo.com/114160122

Sunday, August 16, 2026

Each Day I Live

Each day I live for Jesus Christ,

To walk with Him, to not think twice

About will I serve Him today,

For my desire’s to kneel and pray.

But all this comes straight from the Lord.

And when He called, I got on board,

For by His grace, saved me from sin,

So I would only live for Him.

Not perfect was I all my life.

I had my times I lived in strife,

When I resisted pure within,

And when I did not live for Him.

But gently He kept prodding me,

Return to Him, from sin set free,

So I returned, remained there since,

I do not bow to circumstance.

His wisdom now is what leads me,

To stay the course in not defeat,

To keep the faith, to Him not fail,

To worship Him, o’er sin prevail,

To live the life which He did plan,

That I should live by His command,

To walk with Him by faith each day,

To do His will, and not betray.

He called me then to speak His Word

On internet, to share what learned

From times spent with Him every day

To hear from Him, and not delay

To do His will, His calling sure,

To teach His truths, which they are pure,

To call for all to die to sin

And now to daily live for Him.

An Original Work / August 16, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Break Up Your Unplowed Ground

We live in a day and time not much different from what was going on in the days of Jeremiah, a prophet of God to the people. So much of the church has become so worldly, and so many have altered the gospel message to make it less offensive and more appealing to human flesh and to the ungodly of the world. So many are pampering the sinfully addicted. And so many professing Christians are believing that their sins do not matter to God. But Jesus died to free us from our sins, not to coddle us in our sins.

Jeremiah 4:1-2 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

“If you will return, O Israel,
return to Me,” declares the LORD.
“If you will remove your detestable idols from My sight
and no longer waver,
2and if you can swear, ‘As surely as the LORD lives,’
in truth, in justice, and in righteousness,
then the nations will be blessed by Him,
and in Him they will glory.”

And God is presently calling his idolatrous and adulterous church to return to Him as her only Lord (Owner-Master). He is confronting the church with her sinful acts and with her worship of idols, such as certain Pastors and/or politicians who they raise to God-like status and who they follow blindly, accepting their lies as though they are truth, without consulting God and His Word to see if what they are saying is indeed truth, as taught in the correct biblical context. For too many lies are taught from Scriptures out of context.

Too much of the church has gone the way of the world to win the world to her gatherings, in order to grow her numbers. And too many of her gatherings are all about attracting and entertaining the world and not about preaching death to sin and walks of obedience to our Lord as evidence that our faith in Jesus Christ is biblical faith, and not of the flesh. Too many have partnered with the government and with the world and are marketing their gatherings to the people of the world, both of which our God forbids!

But 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).

Jeremiah 4:3-4 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

3For this is what the LORD says to the men of Judah and Jerusalem:
“Break up your unplowed ground,
and do not sow among the thorns.
4Circumcise yourselves to the LORD,
and remove the foreskins of your hearts,
O men of Judah and people of Jerusalem.
Otherwise, My wrath will break out like fire
and burn with no one to extinguish it,
because of your evil deeds.”

If the church would return to her Lord in humility and repentance, and if she would make Him her only Lord and husband, He would shower His spiritual blessings upon her. He would revive her heart, cleanse her from all impurities, restore her to fellowship with Him, and she would walk with Him all the rest of her days. No longer would she follow the stubbornness of her own heart, but she would follow her Lord Jesus with wholehearted devotion, honor, and praise, in walks of obedience to His commands in holy living.

She would put her detestable idols out of the sight of the Lord, i.e. she would discard them like garbage. Amen! She would no longer go astray. She would walk in truth and in the Lord’s righteousness, in the power and the working of the Spirit of God within her. And she would be blessed of the Lord. And this is not to say that any of us will be absolutely perfect in every way from that moment on, but that, by faith in Jesus Christ, we are to deny self, die to sin daily, and walk (in conduct) in obedience to our Lord.

This is the desire of God’s heart for His people. This is what He is calling His church to do, to no longer harden her hearts against her God, and to no longer follow after the ways of this sinful world and after the gods made by human hands, but to humble herself before God in repentance, and to allow the Spirit of God to renew her heart. And this may require some deep digging into what is stored up in the hearts of those professing faith in Jesus Christ and letting the Lord remove all which stands against Him and His will.

For by God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ, which is not of our own doing, we are crucified with Christ in death to sin and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in Him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but as slaves to righteousness in walks of obedience to God’s commands. We are no longer to permit sin to reign in our mortal bodies to make us obey its desires. For if sin is what we obey, it results in death. But if obedience to God is what we obey, it results in sanctification, and its end is eternal life with God (see Romans 6:1-23).

Break Up Your Unplowed Ground

An Original Work / August 16, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

As the Deer

By Martin J. Nystrom

Based off Psalm 42:1

As the deer panteth for the water

So my soul longeth after You

You alone are my heart's desire

And I long to worship You

You alone are my strength, my shield

To You alone may my spirit yield

You alone are my heart's desire

And I long to worship You

[A Prayer of Devotion to God Alone]

Following Worthless Idols

Jeremiah 2:1-2 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

1Now the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2“Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says:

‘I remember the devotion of your youth,

your love as a bride,

how you followed Me in the wilderness,

in a land not sown.’”

It is entirely possible for those of genuine biblical faith in Jesus Christ, who walked with the Lord in obedience to His commands in holy living, for a long while, with their lives surrendered to the Lord, dedicated to His service, in love with God, to, at some point in their walks of faith, encounter temptation to sin and end up sinning against the Lord in disobedience to His commands. And it is dumfounding to comprehend how that could happen, but it happened to King David, did it not? And it happened to me a long time ago.

And when I look back on that time it saddens my heart to think of it. But if we are not careful, and if our hearts are not guarded, and if we begin to let even little bits of the world into our minds and hearts, we can be led astray and fall back into sin, and be in need of restoration and renewal. But thanks be to God, He did not leave me there. He brought me back, and He restored me, and He gave me a new lease on life. And in due time He called me to this present ministry. I am so thankful that He did! All glory to God!!

Jeremiah 2:5 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

5This is what the LORD says:

“What fault did your fathers find in Me

that they strayed so far from Me?

They followed worthless idols,

and became worthless themselves.”

And then there are those who profess faith in Jesus Christ with their lips, who go through some of the motions of religious practice, but who never did have a change of heart and mind resulting in a change of behavior. Or, if they did, it did not last long, and soon after they began to stray far from the Lord and to follow after worthless idols to the point to where they became worthless themselves. For they forsook the God they claimed to worship, and they worshipped and served the idols of man, instead.

No amount of God’s corrections and disciplines and calls to repentance made any difference in their lives. They stubbornly held on to their sin, refused to give up their idols, and continued to do what they knew was wrong. For it was what their flesh craved. And that is where many professing Christians are today, giving lip service to the Lord but while they continue to walk in darkness, in deliberate and habitual sin against God, bowing to their idols of the flesh. And it will not end well for them if they refuse to change course.

Jeremiah 2:13 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

“13For My people have committed two evils:

They have forsaken Me,

the fountain of living water,

and they have dug their own cisterns—

broken cisterns that cannot hold water.”

Here in the USA, where I live, we are seeing this much. So many professing Christians have gone the ways of the world, and they have forsaken the ways of the Lord. They have accepted a diluted and altered “gospel” message which makes no requirements of them that they must repent of (forsake, die to) their sins and obey God, in life practice. And so many who do still teach repentance and obedience to God teach them more as something we “should” do, but not as something that God requires of us.

Instead of allowing the Lord Jesus to build His church, His way, many have turned the church into a man-made business which is being marketed to the world just like other businesses. For they have rejected the life-giving water of the Spirit of God in salvation from sin, and replaced the true gospel of salvation with what is fake and broken and cannot hold water (the Spirit of God). In other words they rejected the one true God and His plan of salvation for their lives in favor of following after man-made idols.

So, if this is where you are, living to please your flesh, and not God, and/or following after the ways of the world, accepting a diluted “gospel” message, in place of the one taught by Jesus and by his New Testament apostles, when taught in the correct biblical context, I pray you will repent of your sins, and that you will submit to Christ as Lord, and follow Him in obedience to His commands from this day forward. Don’t let the devil trap you into sinning against God. Resist him! Flee from him! And follow Jesus always!

Following Worthless Idols

An Original Work / August 16, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Near the Cross

Hymn lyrics by Fanny J. Crosby, 1869

Music by William H. Doane, 1869

Jesus, keep me near the cross;

There a precious fountain,

Free to all, a healing stream,

Flows from Calvary's mountain.

Near the cross, a trembling soul,

Love and mercy found me;

There the bright and morning star

Sheds its beams around me.

Near the cross! O Lamb of God,

Bring its scenes before me;

Help me walk from day to day

With its shadow o'er me.

Near the cross I'll watch and wait,

Hoping, trusting ever,

Till I reach the golden strand

Just beyond the river.

In the cross, in the cross,

Be my glory ever,

Till my raptured soul shall find

Rest beyond the river.

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