Run With It

Friday, October 23, 2026

In the year 1970, Paul Williams and Roger Nichols wrote the song, “We’ve Only Just Begun,” famously recorded by the brother-sister duo, “The Carpenters.” It was originally written for an ad campaign, and it was written as a wedding song. And the Lord put this song in my mind this morning, which He will sometimes do with different songs, because there is a message He wants to convey through it. And this song is about a marriage and the processes it goes through, but it is also for the purpose to sell something.

So, I looked up the word “sell” to see what it means, and it rendered: “to dispose of or manage for profit.” So this could be to dispose of a marriage, to give it up, “to give up in violation of duty, trust, or loyalty, and especially for personal gain; to give up property to another for something of value; to give up in return for something else especially foolishly or dishonorably” (MW Dictionary). So this could be about a marriage between a man and a woman, or it could have to do with our marriage to Christ, or both, I believe.

Jeremiah 8:4-8 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.

How 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?”

God and Spouse

There are many people in our world today professing faith in God – Father, Son Jesus Christ, and Holy Spirit – who are going through what appear to be the motions of marriage to God and to spouse (if they are married), but it is all for show. It is a deception. It is something they are selling to other people but it is a con job. It is in appearances only. They want to appear to others as though they are doing well, that they are true Christians, and that they are faithful to their spouses, but it is all a ruse. It is just for show.

The truth is that they are habitual liars and deceivers who portend one thing outwardly but who are those who have fallen into sin and who have remained there, and they have not returned to the Lord or to their spouses in love and in faithfulness, even if they try to give an outward appearance of love and faithfulness. They sin against God and against their spouses deliberately and habitually without true remorse and with no genuine repentance and change of heart, mind, and behavior which lasts.

So, why do they do this? Why do they sell (dispose of) their marriages to Christ and to their spouses? Because they want their sins more. What they long for is the sinful pleasures of their flesh, so that is why they keep going back to them over and over again. Even though they will profess with their lips their love for God and for spouse, and for a healthy and biblical relationship with both, they cling to their sins, instead. And they cling to deceit to cover up their sins in order to give a false appearance of good.

And it isn’t that they don’t know the requirements of the Lord. They do! They do not know them intimately like in a close and personal relationship, for they reject them and they ignore them in order to keep on in their sinful pleasures. But many of them will put on a performance as though they are following the ways of the Lord, and as though they are doing what the Lord says we must do as His followers, but while they continue to sin in secret, but not in secret from God, for He sees and knows everything we do.

The Gospel

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).

For God’s grace, which is bringing us salvation, is training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives while we wait for Jesus’ return. For it is not the one who claims he is “in Christ” who is “in Christ,” but it is the one who has denied self, died with Christ to sin, and who is now walking in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in practice, and no longer in sin. We have the hope and the promise of eternal life with God in heaven (see Titus 2:11-14; 1 John 1-3).

So, know the truth, and obey the truth, and follow Jesus with your life.

[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]

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An Original Work / October 23, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Trust and Obey

Words by John H. Sammis, 1887

Music by Daniel B. Towner, 1887

When we walk with the Lord

in the light of His Word,
What a glory He sheds on our way!
While we do His good will,

He abides with us still,
And with all who will trust and obey.

Not a shadow can rise,

not a cloud in the skies,
But His smile quickly drives it away;
Not a doubt or a fear,

not a sigh or a tear,
Can abide while we trust and obey.

Not a burden we bear,

not a sorrow we share,
But our toil He doth richly repay;
Not a grief or a loss,

not a frown or a cross,
But is blessed if we trust and obey.

But we never can prove

the delights of His love
Until all on the altar we lay;
For the favor He shows,

for the joy He bestows,
Are for them who will trust and obey.

Then in fellowship sweet

We will sit at His feet.
Or we’ll walk by His side in the way.
What He says we will do,

Where He sends we will go;
Never fear, only trust and obey.

Trust and obey, for there’s no other way
To be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey.

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I Want to Draw You a Picture

Based off Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22

I want to draw you a picture,

Not for your mantel or fixture.

It’s drawn with letters and numbers,

Focused on those who do slumber.

I know your works and endurance,

How you’ve found in Me assurance.

You’ve abandoned love had at first,

So, for other things you do thirst. (1)

I know now of your tribulation,

Of those who do now worship Satan.

Don’t fear what you truly will suffer,

But be one who surely will conquer. (2)

I know where you dwell, Satan’s throne,

You have made My name now your home.

But among you are those who teach lies,

So the people to sin do not die. (3)

I know of your love, faith, and works,

Your latter works exceed the first.

But you tolerate much seducing,

The practice of sin not reducing. (4)

I know of your good reputation,

But that is not your situation.

So wake up and strengthen what’s dying,

And cease with your constant denying. (5)

For you I have opened a door,

For My word you do not ignore.

Your enemies one day will see

I’ve loved you, and that you love Me. (6)

And lastly are those who’re lukewarm,

To God’s word they do not conform.

So, I’m standing at your front door,

So hear Me, and not Me ignore. (7)

An Original Work / January 11, 2024

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Walk in His Ways

Jeremiah 7:21-29 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

“21This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices and eat the meat yourselves! 22For when I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt, I did not merely command them about burnt offerings and sacrifices, 23but this is what I commanded them: Obey Me, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in all the ways I have commanded you, so that it may go well with you.

“24Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They went backward and not forward. 25From the day your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have sent you all My servants the prophets again and again. 26Yet they would not listen to Me or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and did more evil than their fathers.

“27When you tell them all these things, they will not listen to you. When you call to them, they will not answer. 28Therefore you must say to them, ‘This is the nation that would not listen to the voice of the LORD their God and would not receive correction. Truth has perished; it has disappeared from their lips. 29Cut off your hair and throw it away. Raise up a lamentation on the barren heights, for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.’”

Obey God

Under the Old Covenant and under the New Covenant alike, we who believe in God – Father, Son Jesus Christ, and Holy Spirit – must obey God and His commands. Now we are not under the Old Covenant liturgical, ceremonial, sacrificial, purification, circumcision, dietary and Sabbath laws. But we do have to obey God’s moral laws and all His commands to us written down for us in the New Testament. But we need to read them in their appropriate biblical context to make sure we are getting the correct interpretation.

For us to be the children of God, in fellowship with our Lord, forgiven of our sins, and on our way to heaven, we must obey our Lord. We must walk (in conduct, in practice) in the ways of the Lord which are listed for us in the New Testament writings. Sin must no longer be our practice. Obedience to God must be our practice. For if we claim to know God and to be in fellowship with Him, but sin is still what we practice, and not obedience to God, we do not know God, and we do not have eternal life with God.

Listened Not

So many people today who profess faith in Jesus Christ, though, are not listening to God and to the teachings of the Scriptures under the New Covenant, but they are listening to liars and deceivers who are leading the masses astray to follow after a man-created gospel. They are listening to other humans who are telling them that they don’t have to obey God and that they don’t have to repent of (forsake) their sins. For they call that “works salvation.” But they are lying to the people to lead them astray.

“They went backward and not forward.” Absolutely that is what is happening. So many are just giving lip service to God, convinced that all their sins are forgiven and now heaven is guaranteed them as their eternal rest, but while they continue in deliberate and habitual sin against the Lord without conscience and without remorse and without genuine biblical repentance. And even though God has sent them many messengers to speak the truth of the Scriptures to them, they are ignoring them and are continuing in sin.

Tell Them

Now when God calls us to take His messages to the people of the world, and to the worldly church, and to all who profess His name, there is no guarantee that any of them will listen to us. But we must speak the words of God to the people whether or not they listen. For some will listen. And later on, when things get much worse than they are now, more will listen, I believe, although many still will not. But we are to obey God in taking His messages to the people regardless of what kinds of responses we receive.

And none of us should be looking for human approval. We should be willing to be corrected if we have something wrong, but we should make certain that we are wrong, and we should not just believe everything others tell us. So we should seek the Lord for His guidance and direction in all that we are and do and say for His glory and for His purposes. And we should give all the glory to God for any good that comes from our obedience to our Lord. For we work for Him to do His will and to say what He says we must say.

Truth Perished

Well, truth has not altogether perished, but it is certainly being knocked down and stomped on and thrown away a lot! So many people professing faith in Jesus Christ are buying into the lies and they are rejecting the truth of the Scriptures, as taught in their correct biblical context. They are relying on other humans to tell them the truth rather than them searching the Scriptures themselves and studying them in their correct biblical context. And it appears that the shorter the messages, the more readers they get.

The “feel-good” stuff is what is most popular, and anything that speaks of sin and obedience and submission to God is generally not on the “most popular” reading lists. But our job, as our Lord’s messengers, is to share with the people what the Lord puts on our hearts to share, which must include the teachings on obedience and repentance. For our job is not to gain human approval for ourselves, but to lead people to repentance and to obedience to our Lord, resulting in their deliverance from sin and eternal life with God.

Walk in His Ways

An Original Work / October 23, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

When I Was Walking

An Original Work / January 16, 2020

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

When I was walking along the way,

My Lord was with me, and He did say,

“My child I’m with you. I hear you pray,

‘Oh, help me, Lord! Need You today!’”

He is my friend, near to the end.

Gently leads me. His servant be.

He helps me pray – knows what to say.

He’s all I need. On Him I feed.

When I am wond’ring of what to do,

He gently leads me to what is truth.

He is my helper. He strengthens me.

When I’m in want, supplies my need.

He comforts me with all His love.

Gives me His grace from heav’n above.

I heed His call to watch and pray,

To guard my heart throughout each day.

When He is calling to come to Him,

To let Him lead you, trust Him within,

How will you answer to Him today?

Will you say, “Yes, Lord, have your way”?

Do not neglect to let Him in,

Cleanse you from sin, made new within.

Leave all your sin, obey your Lord,

Trust in His Word – His mighty Sword.

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Thursday, October 22, 2026

Hear The Word of The Lord

Jeremiah 7:1-11 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

This 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.

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.”

The Church

This could so easily have been written about and to “the church” in the USA and perhaps throughout the world and in other nations today. And the Lord is speaking to those who are His messengers, and He is instructing us to proclaim His message to those who profess the name of Jesus and who profess to give their worship to God – Father, Son Jesus Christ, and Holy Spirit. We are to speak to the church the words of the Lord at a time when so many are teaching them lies, and who are distorting God’s words.

But the church is not a building called “church.” And it is not a church denomination. And it is not these businesses of human origin partnered with the world and with the ungodly and with the government. The church is the collective body of Christ comprised of all people who are of genuine biblical faith in Jesus Christ throughout the world. We are those who by faith in Jesus Christ have died with Him to sin and who are now walking in obedience to His commands, although many right now are wandering.

God’s Message

God’s message to so much of the church today is the same as it was to His people back then. He is telling His church collectively, although not necessarily applying to every individual, to correct their ways and their deeds which need correcting. We, as His body, are to not put our trust in deceptive words. We are not to believe the lies of the enemy which are permeating so much of what is called “church” today. We are not to believe that we can continue to make sin our practice and that God will approve.

We are to act justly and not hypocritically toward one another. We are to oppress (persecute, torment) no one. We are not to murder anyone, and that includes we are not to murder the unborn via abortion. We are not to be idolaters who follow after the “gods” of this world. We are not to believe the liars at face value, but we are to test the spirits to see if they be of God. And there are so many “pastors” who are lying to their congregations and who are teaching them a false gospel of grace which pacifies them in their sins.

False Professions of Faith

So many who profess faith in Jesus Christ are continuing in deliberate and habitual sin against God, convinced that because they made a profession of faith in Jesus Christ that now all their sins are forgiven, and they are on their way to heaven. So they steal, hate, abuse, misuse, murder, and/or commit adultery, and they are the sexually immoral, wicked, deceivers, idolaters, unfaithful, disobedient, and/or those who take advantage of others. But they who do so are following after a lie of Satan who desires for them to sin.

And then they stand before God and they profess that they believe in Jesus Christ, that He is their Lord, and that they belong to Him. And they attend weekly gatherings of “the church,” and they sing songs of worship of God, and they listen to the preachers’ sermons, and they give their offerings, and they do their “good deeds.” But then they turn right around and they lie and cheat and commit adultery, and they are sexually immoral while they remain convinced that heaven is their eternal destiny and that they are Christians.

False Teachings

A big part of why so much of “the church” is in the spiritual condition that it is in is because so many are believing the lies being taught by the “wolves in sheep’s clothing” who serve as “pastors” of so many of these gatherings of “the church.” I hear it often from responders who tell me that they “prayed the prayer to receive Christ” and now all their sins are forgiven, and they are on their way to heaven, and so they can now continue in sin guilt-free. For they are convinced that repentance and obedience to God are not required.

The Truth

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).

Hear The Word of The Lord

An Original Work / October 22, 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]

Jesus Doesn't Want Just Part of Us

Jesus doesn’t want just part of us,

Not just part of us, but all our time.

Doesn’t want just what we’ll give to Him,

Wants our whole, not part, and not our mime.

Our Lord Savior Jesus Christ and God

Gave His life up for us on a cross

So that we’d be forgiven our sins,

So that we’d live not for self, but Him.

People have it backwards nowadays,

Think that all God wants is that we pray,

Take some little time for Him each day,

Then go merrily along our way.

That is not how God has set things up.

He desires we drink from Him His cup,

Share with Him in death and righteousness,

Live for Him so we’ll be heaven blessed.

An Original Work / December 14, 2023

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Ask For the Ancient Paths

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

This 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.”

The Crossroads

When we hear the word “crossroads” we are probably likely to think of two roads which cross (intersect) each other. When we get there we can choose to go left or right or straight (forward) or backwards. “Straight” would be to continue on the path we are already on, which could be good or bad. Backwards is usually the wrong way, the way of returning to our sin. And since left is the opposite of right, and right has to do with the way of righteousness, left would be the wrong way. We want the righteous way.

Why does it say to ask for the “ancient paths”? I believe it is because for us now, anyway, the modern way is not the way of righteousness and of holiness and of obedience to our Lord and the forsaking of our sins. The modern way teaches us that all we have to do is to give lip service to God and now all our sins are forgiven and heaven is now what awaits us. But that is a lie from hell. Jesus taught that we must deny self, die to sin, and obey His commands if we want salvation from sin and eternal life with God.

The Good Way

The good way is determined by God and not by human flesh. When we choose the good way we are crucified with Christ in death to sin, and we are raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in Him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but now as servants of God and of His righteousness. Thus, 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, its end is eternal life with God (see Romans 6:1-23).

For God’s grace, which is bringing us salvation, is training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives while we wait for Jesus’ return. For it is not the one who claims he is “in Christ” who is “in Christ,” but it is the one who has denied self, died with Christ to sin, and who is now walking in obedience to our Lord and to His commands, in practice, and no longer in sin. We have the hope and the promise of eternal life with God in heaven (see Titus 2:11-14; 1 John 1-3).

Walk In It

It is not enough just for us to know the ways of righteousness, but we must walk in them. It is not enough to just give lip service to God, but we must do what God commands that we must do as His followers. It is not enough to just read the Bible and pray or to memorize Scripture verses, but the Word of God intended for us who believe in Jesus Christ must be put into daily life practice. We must live what we say we believe and not just mouth the words of faith. And we don’t just attend “the church.” We are to be The Church!

Will You Not Listen?

Sadly, many people who profess faith in Jesus Christ with their lips are not living the life in Christ they profess to have. They give lip service to God, but their hearts are far from Him. For they are still living for the sinful pleasures of the flesh and not to please God. Even though God’s Word teaches them that they must die to sin, and obey God’s commands in life practice, they claim that their professions of faith in Jesus are enough for them to have forgiveness of all sins and heaven as their eternal destiny with God.

Because they will not listen to God and to the teachings of Christ and of His New Testament apostles, but they go their own stubborn way, instead, because they do not want to give up their sins, they will come under the judgment of God. For one day Jesus Christ is coming back, and all of us will stand before Him on the day of judgment. And not everyone who calls Him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the ones DOING God’s will. And many who refused Him and His commandments will hear Him say to them, “I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness!”

Ask For the Ancient Paths

An Original Work / October 22, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

For Our Nation

An Original Work / September 11, 2012

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Recording Via Gerry Peters, music producer and arranger

Bombs are bursting. Night is falling.

Jesus Christ is gently calling

You to follow Him in all ways.

Trust Him with your life today.

Make Him your Lord and your Savior.

Turn from your sin. Follow Jesus.

He will forgive you of your sin;

Cleanse your heart, made new within.

Men betraying: Our trust fraying.

On our knees to God we’re praying,

Seeking God to give us answers

That are only found in Him.

God is sovereign over all things.

Nothing from His mind escaping.

He has all things under His command,

And will work all for good.

Jesus Christ is gently calling

You to follow Him in all ways.

Men deceiving: We’re believing

In our Lord, and interceding

For our nation and its people

To obey their God today.

He is our hope for our future.

For our wounds He offers suture.

He is all we need for this life.

Trust Him with your life today.

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