Run With It: 2026

Thursday, August 20, 2026

They Do Not Obey God's Voice

Jeremiah 32:21-24 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

“21You brought Your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs and wonders, with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and with great terror. 22You gave them this land that You had sworn to give their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.

“23They came in and possessed it, but they did not obey Your voice or walk in Your law. They failed to perform all that You commanded them to do, and so You have brought upon them all this disaster. 24See how the siege ramps are mounted against the city to capture it. And by sword and famine and plague, the city has been given into the hands of the Chaldeans who are fighting against it. What You have spoken has happened, as You now see!”

Introduction

The Lord is leading me today to use a real life physical situation in my life metaphorically to illustrate what this is talking about in this passage of Scripture. This is to be seen as a parable only to illustrate what this is teaching us above and not to be taken literally as a cause and effect in my own life situation. And I have had times in my life previously, a long time ago, when this could be applied to my life, but this is not one of them. So please understand that this is for illustrative purposes only. Thank you!

My Knee Went Out

The year was 2021. The month was August. My husband Rick and I had been busy helping our youngest son to get his house ready to sell, so we were not home much at all for a few months. We live in an apartment. The apartment adjacent to us was empty. Then we discovered mice feces in our drawers and cupboards, and under our sink and cabinets and dishwasher, refrigerator, and stove. And then we found the mice, too, and we killed them, and we set traps for them, and eventually they were all gone.

But in the process of dealing with all of this, and cleaning it all up, I got very ill. So I began to do some research, and I learned that my symptoms matched the diagnosis of “Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome.” But this was prime Covid time, and so many people were being put on ventilators at hospitals for respiratory issues, and many of them were dying. And the only solution they had for HPS, if this is what I had, was that exact treatment. So I decided if I was going to die that I would rather die at home. But I didn’t.

I am still here to write this. And I did start feeling better. But then in November of 2021, we went to the home of one of our children for a family Thanksgiving meal. I was still drained of physical energy. I went outside to take something to the car when my right leg went completely out from under me. I could not walk. So I sat down in the car to wait for my husband to come rescue me. And he took me home, and he had to help me to walk. And then I had to use a walker and eventually I got better, but not best.

Here we are in August of 2026, five years later, and the knee is still not best. It has not completely gone out on me again, but it is not fully functional, either. I still use a rollator (walker) when out in public because I lose my balance sometimes and sometimes I get dizzy, out of breath, and very fatigued. But the only solution any doctor has for this is physical therapy and/or taking drugs. The Lord led me to become pharmaceutical dependent free 18 years ago and PT just made matters much worse. So that’s out!

My dependency is fully in the Lord to see me through each day and to give me the strength and energy I need to do His will. My trust is in Him and not in man to “save” me. But I cannot do all the things I used to do before. But I am okay with that. I believe the Lord has me where He has me for a purpose, and my job each day is just to follow His lead, to write what He gives me to write, and to do the things He would have for me to do. And that also gives me time with my husband, children, and grandchildren, too.

The Parallel to The Scripture

The Lord brought the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt and He gave them a new place to live, as He promised. The Lord brought my husband and I out of our previous residence, and He gave us a new place to live. And spiritually speaking, the Lord provided the way for all to come out from our lives of living in sin, and He gave us a new place to live in communion with Him, in surrender to His will, in dying with Him to sin, and to now live to Him and to His righteousness in walks of obedience to His commands, by His grace.

My husband and I were not home much, for we were spending much time elsewhere. And because of that our kitchen began to be filled with mice feces. And mice are vermin, and vermin are like rats or cockroaches, for they can carry diseases. As people, they are dishonest, morally unclean, liars, fakes, and manipulative. And a kitchen is where food is prepared and eaten. And our spiritual food is the word of God. So this is about false teachers teaching lies. And the lies have the potential to bring about death.

Not being home much can indicate neglecting the Lord and His Word and obedience to Him. And our knees usually symbolize what we get down on in worship of God, which physically I can no longer do, but spiritually I am able. If we do not spiritually bow our knees to the Lord in worship of Him, that opens the door wide for these vermin (the false teachers and teachings) to enter into our relationships with the Lord, and so we end up eating spiritual food which has been compromised which can then lead to death.

But the people did not obey God’s voice. They did not walk in His law. They did not walk in the ways of the Lord in obedience to His commands. For they believed the lies of the enemy, instead. They were feeding on the vermin’s feces, metaphorically speaking, and so spiritually they got very ill. And the Lord allowed disaster to come upon them as He will upon us if we forsake the ways of the Lord, and if we eat the “vermin’s feces” instead of the truth of God’s word, and if our trust is in man and not in God to save us.

Over the past twenty five years, spiritually speaking, my dependency has been in the Lord more than it ever was before in my life. I have remained true to His word, and I have not rebelled against the Lord. There were times in my life before this when I could not say that, in truth. But the trials and tribulations of my life were instrumental to bringing me to this place. And, just as I do not depend on drugs and doctors to be my solution to my physical health, my trust is fully in the Lord to direct me in His ways.

[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]

They Do Not Obey God’s Voice

An Original Work / August 20, 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]

Old Covenant vs New Covenant

Jeremiah 31:31-34 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

“31Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD,

when I will make a new covenant

with the house of Israel

and with the house of Judah.

32It will not be like the covenant

I made with their fathers

when I took them by the hand

to lead them out of the land of Egypt—

a covenant they broke,

though I was a husband to them,”

declares the LORD.

33“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel

after those days, declares the LORD.

I will put My law in their minds

and inscribe it on their hearts.

And I will be their God,

and they will be My people.

34No longer will each man teach his neighbor or his brother,

saying, ‘Know the LORD,’

because they will all know Me,

from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD.

For I will forgive their iniquities

and will remember their sins no more.”

The Old Covenant

Who were God’s people under the Old Covenant? They were the Jews. They were Israel. But not all of them were of genuine faith in God. Not all of them obeyed God and served Him as their Lord. They were Israel because they were physical descendants of Abraham. But many of them resisted the Lord, worshipped idols, lived in spiritual adultery, in sexual immorality, in revelry and drunkenness, and in stubbornness of mind and will. They did not bow to God as Lord, and many of them died and did not enter into God’s rest.

[See: 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; etc.]

Under the Old Covenant they were under a long list of liturgical, ceremonial, sacrificial, purification, circumcision, dietary, and Sabbath laws which we, under the New Covenant, do not have to obey. But they were also under God’s moral laws requiring repentance, submission to God as Lord, and faithfulness to the Lord in obedience to His commands, in holy living, in moral purity, in godliness, uprightness, and in righteousness. Under the New Covenant we must still obey God’s moral laws which did not go away.

The New Covenant

Under the New Covenant, God’s people are all people who are of biblical faith in Jesus Christ who have denied self, died to sin (repented of sin), and obeyed our Lord as a matter of life practice, and who are continuing to do so by the grace of God. We who were not born Jews by physical birth were grafted into biblical Israel (into Jesus Christ) and all Jews who rejected Jesus Christ as their Messiah were cut out of biblical Israel. But they can be grafted into Israel by faith in Jesus Christ, and together we are “All Israel.”

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]

Under the New Covenant, God, in the person of the Holy Spirit, comes to live within the lives of all who are of genuine biblical faith in Jesus Christ. So the Word of God is living within us, not just something we read in the Scriptures. We have the Holy Spirit living within us teaching, instructing, encouraging, counseling, leading, and guiding us in the ways of the Lord, directing our paths, cautioning us against making wrong choices and encouraging us in the ways of the Lord, empowering us to live holy lives in the power of God.

Who Knows The Lord?

So, if we are of genuine faith which saves, we have, by the grace of God, denied self, died to sin, and we are walking in obedience to our Lord and to His commands in life practice. So we know the Lord. It is not like under the Old Covenant where the people of God were His by physical birth, and when so many of them rejected the Lord and refused to obey Him. All of us who are of genuine biblical faith in the Lord Jesus know the Lord, so we don’t have to teach one another to know the Lord, if our faith is biblical faith.

Nonetheless, many profess faith in Jesus Christ based off lies they were taught, and their faith is not biblical, for they did not deny self, die to sin, and obey God in practice, but they continued in their deliberate and habitual sins and in disobedience to our Lord’s commands. So they do not know God and God does not know them. And they do not have salvation from sin nor eternal life with God guaranteed them because they did not submit to Him as Lord and follow in His ways, but they continued in their willful sins.

So, if you have not, by faith in Jesus Christ, died with Him to sin, and if you are not now, by the grace of God, walking in obedience to His commands, as a matter of life practice, then you do not know God. And this is not saying that we will never sin (1 John 2:1-2), but the Scriptures make it quite clear that if sin is our practice, our habit, and not obedience to our Lord, that no matter what our lips profess, we will not have salvation from sin nor eternal life with God. So make your heart right with God today while you still can.

Old Covenant vs New Covenant

An Original Work / August 20, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Mighty in Power

An Original Work / June 17, 2019

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Jesus, our Savior, reigneth forever;

Mighty in power, His name we honor.

He’s our refuge from all evil.

God our righteous, He’s our fill.

He satisfies us with all His blessings.

We magnify Him. Our praise to Him sing.

Glory and honor, praise to the Father,

Perfect in wisdom, He is our vision.

He delivered us from all sin

So, in Christ, we’d be forgiven.

He purifies us. His love will guide us.

He is beside us, holy and righteous.

Our Holy Spirit, comfort in sorrow,

Strength in our weakness, hope for tomorrow.

He gives courage to be bold in

Witnessing for Jesus Christ.

He teaches all things about our Savior.

New life in Jesus, we found His favor.

https://vimeo.com/343126112

Wednesday, August 19, 2026

I Am Yours

When I think of You, Lord,

In the watches of the night,

I am filled with wonder

At the power of Your might.

All that lies before me,

All that You have planned for me,

Fills my life with purpose,

So my heart now sings with glee.

Each day in Your presence,

As my heart draws close to You,

I want to adore You,

And, to You, always be true.

Thank You for Your grace, Lord,

For forgiveness of my sins,

So I walk in freedom,

In Christ, purified within.

Love You, Lord, my Savior,

On a cross You gave Your life,

So I’d live in vict’ry,

Because of Your sacrifice.

With Your love, You bless me,

For, You called me to be Yours,

Lord, I am Your servant,

Living daily in Your pow’r.

An Original Work / March 18, 2018

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Where We Will Not Stumble

Jeremiah 31:1 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

“1At that time,” declares the LORD, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be My people.”

Who are “all the families of Israel” today? Who are God’s chosen people today? According to the teachings of the Scriptures they are all people (Jew and Gentile) who are of biblical faith in Jesus Christ, who have by faith in Jesus Christ denied self, died to sin, and who were then or who are now walking in obedience to our Lord’s commands, in practice. Sadly, not all who are of genuine faith in the Lord Jesus are presently walking with Him in full surrender and in full obedience to Him and to His commands.

However, the Scriptures do teach that if we profess faith in Jesus Christ with our lips, but we do not then submit to Him in obedience to His commands, but we continue to go our own way, to walk in sin, and not in surrender to Christ as Lord of our lives, that we are not of genuine faith in the Lord, and we do not have salvation from sin nor eternal life with God. For not everyone who says, “Lord, Lord,” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the ones doing (obeying) the will of God the Father who is in heaven (Matthew 7:21-23).

Jeremiah 31:2 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

2This is what the LORD says:

“The people who survived the sword

found favor in the wilderness

when Israel went to find rest.”

Now, when I think of the wilderness I think of the time when God used Moses to rescue His people (the Jews only at that time) from slavery in Egypt, and how they were in the wilderness for 40 years. And during that time the Lord tested them, and He tried them, but the majority of them would not bow to the Lord, but they bowed to their idols instead – idols of sexual immorality, drunkenness, and revelry. They put Christ to the test and they grumbled and complained about Him, so they died in the wilderness.

Yet this seems to have a different meaning to it, though similar. This seems to carry with it the meaning of those who escaped entrapment to sin, who found grace in the Lord Jesus Christ, and although walking through the valley of the shadow of death in great trials and tribulations, they are now at peace with God. They are resting in the Lord who is leading and guiding them in the ways of the Lord. So they are now following Him in obedience to His commands. All the others were left behind. For they were not ready.

Jeremiah 31:3-6 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

3The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying:

“I have loved you with an everlasting love;

therefore I have drawn you with loving devotion.

4Again I will build you, and you will be rebuilt,

O Virgin Israel.

Again you will take up your tambourines

and go out in joyful dancing.

5Again you will plant vineyards on the hills of Samaria;

the farmers will plant and enjoy the fruit.

6For there will be a day when watchmen will call out

on the hills of Ephraim,

‘Arise, let us go up to Zion,

to the LORD our God!’”

Translated to today, under the New Covenant, this is part of the gospel of our salvation. For we could not be saved from our sins and to have eternal life with God if God did not love us, and if He did not draw us to faith in the Lord Jesus. And we could not grow in our walks of faith if we did not have the Holy Spirit living within us empowering us and guiding us and helping us to live godly and holy lives, in service to our Lord. But because of Jesus’ sacrifice for us we can be delivered from sin and have eternal life with God.

And because of that, there is much cause for rejoicing and for celebrating His goodness to us. But then we are to remain in Him, in fellowship with Him, and we are to walk in His ways, to do what He calls us to do. And we are to live for the Lord in obeying His commands and in being His witnesses to the people of the world, sharing with them the gospel of Christ, letting them know that Jesus put our sins to death with Him on that cross so by faith in Him we will die to sin and live for our Lord in obedience to Him.

Jeremiah 31:7-9 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

7For this is what the LORD says:

“Sing with joy for Jacob;

shout for the foremost of the nations!

Make your praises heard, and say,

‘O LORD, save Your people,

the remnant of Israel!’

8Behold, I will bring them from the land of the north

and gather them from the farthest parts of the earth,

including the blind and the lame,

expectant mothers and women in labor.

They will return as a great assembly!

9They will come with weeping,

and by their supplication I will lead them;

I will make them walk beside streams of waters,

on a level path where they will not stumble.

For I am Israel’s Father,

and Ephraim is My firstborn.”

This weeping has to do with repentance. When we repent of our sins we now choose to walk in the ways of the Lord, under His guidance and direction. And He fills us with the Holy Spirit who guides us into all truth. He leads us in the ways of righteousness. He leads us on a straight path, the way of holiness, godliness, and moral purity, in submission to God. So sin is now no longer our habit, but living for the Lord to do His will is now our practice.

Many people confuse admission of sin with repentance of sin. They are not one and the same. For some people may admit their sins with their lips, and even feel sorrowful over the wrongs they have done, and still never repent of their sins. For to repent is to have a change of heart and mind resulting in a change of behavior. To repent is to stop doing the wrong that you were doing and to now to do what is right. It is to completely change course, to go the opposite direction of where you had been going, no longer to live in addiction to sin but now to live as slaves of God and of His righteousness.

[Matthew 3:8; Matthew 4:17; Matthew 7:21-23; Matthew 11:20-21; Matthew 12:41; Matthew 21:28-31; Mark 1:15; Mark 6:12; Luke 5:32; Luke 9:23-26; Luke 13:3,5; Luke 15:2-8; Luke 24:47; Acts 3:19-20; Acts 5:30-31; Acts 8:22; Acts 11:17-18; Acts 17:29-31; Acts 19:18-20; Acts 20:21; Acts 26:18-20; Romans 2:4; Romans 6:1-23; 2 Corinthians 7:8-10; 2 Corinthians 12:21; Ephesians 4:17-32; 1 Thessalonians 1:9-10; 2 Timothy 2:24-26; 2 Peter 3:9; 1 John 1:5-10; Revelation 2:5,16; Revelation 3:3,19]

Where We Will Not Stumble

An Original Work / August 19, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Your Word

Based off Psalms 119

An Original Work / December 27, 2011

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Praise You with an upright heart as

I learn of Your righteousness.

I seek You with all my heart;

Do not let me stray from Your law.

I have hidd’n Your word in my heart

That I might not sin against You.

Open my eyes that I may see

Wonderful things in Your word.

I am a stranger on earth.

I have chosen the way of truth;

My heart is set on Your word.

I will walk about in freedom,

For I have sought out Your truth.

Teach me knowledge and good judgment,

For I believe in Your law.

Your hands made me, and they formed me;

Give me understanding, Lord.

I put my hope in Your word.

Your word is a lamp to my feet

And a light unto my path.

You are my shield and my refuge;

In Your word I put my hope.

My heart trembles at Your word, Lord.

May my lips o’erflow with praise.

May my tongue sing of Your truth, Lord.

Your salvation, Lord, long I.

Your word, Lord, is my delight.

https://vimeo.com/125862410

Admission vs Repentance

Many people confuse admission of sin with repentance of sin. They are not one and the same. For some people may admit their sins with their lips, and even feel sorrowful over the wrongs they have done, and still never repent of their sins. For to repent is to have a change of heart and mind resulting in a change of behavior. To repent is to stop doing the wrong that you were doing and to now to do what is right. It is to completely change course, to go the opposite direction of where you had been going, to no longer living in addiction to sin but now to living as slaves of God and of His righteousness.

Giving People False Hopes

Jeremiah 29:10-14 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

10For this is what the LORD says: “When Babylon’s seventy years are complete, I will attend to you and confirm My promise to restore you to this place. 11For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope. 12Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. 13You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. 14I will be found by you, declares the LORD, and I will restore you from captivity and gather you from all the nations and places to which I have banished you, declares the LORD. I will restore you to the place from which I sent you into exile.”

Introduction

The children of Israel of the Old Testament were living in exile in Babylon as a punishment from God for their rebellion against the Lord and for their unwillingness to heed His commands. And God promised them 70 years of exile before He would deliver them. But they had prophets in their midst who were deceiving the people into thinking that they would not have to be in exile the whole 70 years. So, they were not to listen to the prophets who were speaking lies to them, for they prophesied falsely in the name of God.

False Prophets

What this brings to mind are the teachings of the Scriptures on the gospel of Christ and what it means to be “in Christ,” and what it looks like if we are not “in Christ” by biblical faith in Him. All throughout the New Testament writings we are taught that faith in Jesus Christ, which comes from God, and which is not of human flesh, will result in the believers in Christ denying self, dying to sin (repenting of sin) and obeying our Lord and His commands, as a matter of life practice, yet not necessarily in absolute sinless perfection.

However, we are taught that if sin remains our practice, and not obedience to our Lord and to His commands, that we do not have salvation from sin nor eternal life with God. But we have prophets and preachers and teachers among us who are teaching lies to the people, and they are telling them that they do not have to repent (die to sin) and obey God and His commands as required of God for believing faith which saves. And they are telling them that God will not judge them for their sins if they say, “I believe in Christ.”

Speaking Lies

So, in essence, they are doing the same thing these prophets of old did. They are speaking lies to the people. And they are putting words in the mouth of God He did not say. They are saying, “Peace, peace,” when there is no peace, for they are promising all who give lip service to the Lord that they are saved from their sins, and heaven is guaranteed them when they die, and that nothing can take that away from them, not even their continued deliberate and habitual sinning against God via no repentance.

They are teaching a false gospel and a false grace of God which permits the sinners to keep on in their sin, with no requirement for obedience to God’s commands (New Covenant), while promising them that God will not judge them, that he will not punish them for their rebellion against Him and for their refusal to surrender their lives to Him. So they are giving the people false hopes of safety and security. And many are teaching that God can no longer see when we sin but He only sees Jesus when He looks at us. Lie!

God’s Words

But the teachings of the Scriptures do not agree with what the false prophets are telling the people. They teach us that we must deny self, die to sin, and obey God and His commands in life practice for our faith in Jesus Christ to be genuine biblical faith. We must turn from our sins and now surrender our lives to the Lord to doing His will His way from this day forward. Sin must no longer be what we practice or we will not have salvation from sin, and we will not have eternal life with God.

For God’s plans for us via Jesus’ death and resurrection are that we must die with Him to sin and now obey Him and His commands in life practice. His plans to prosper us have to do with us living in Him, growing in our walks of obedience to our Lord, succeeding in doing His will. And the future and the hope that He has for us is that we will leave our lives of sin behind us and that we will follow Him wherever He leads us in doing all that He commands, and that we will be a blessing to others as He has been a blessing to us.

Call Upon Him

But all this is not the result of lip service only. We cannot just “claim who you are in Christ” while continuing to live in sin. We must come to the Lord in humility, seeking to know Him and to do His will. We must bow before Him in genuine repentance and in surrender of our lives to Him. And then we must follow Him in obedience to His commands. And we may not do this perfectly, but lack of perfection is never to be used as an excuse for deliberate and habitual sin, or we will not have salvation from sin.

Giving People False Hopes

An Original Work / August 19, 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

Tuesday, August 18, 2026

Old Cross, New Cross

The old cross is the cross

On which our Savior died.

He took our sins upon Himself,

And He was crucified.

He died upon that cross

To put our sins to death,

That we might die with Him to sin

And live to righteousness.

The new cross, not the same.

On sin it puts no blame.

It satisfies the flesh of man.

He does not have to change.

Its god does not require

We leave our flesh’s desire.

It modifies and pacifies.

It strives to not offend.

But where, in all, lies truth?

It’s found in Jesus Christ.

He said that we must die to sin,

Live to His righteousness.

His Holy Spirit, gave,

To live within our lives,

To take away the pow’r of sin.

We live victorious!

So, no one has to sin.

Our Lord has made a way

That we can walk in holiness

And live for Him each day.

In truth, we must believe,

By faith, our Lord receive.

Accept Him now to be your Lord,

And walk in victory!

An Original Work / March 3, 2018

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

What Is The Sin?

I am reading through the book of Jeremiah, much of which is God using Jeremiah to speak to the people and to let them know God’s charges against the people for their sinful rebellion against the Lord. So not everything written in this book is going to apply to us today, but some of it is very applicable to our lives today, as so much of what was happening then is being repeated today, only now during the time of the New Covenant with God we have through faith in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior.

Jeremiah 16:9-13 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

“9For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to remove from this place, before your very eyes and in your days, the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom.

“10When you tell these people all these things, they will ask you, ‘Why has the LORD pronounced all this great disaster against us? What is our iniquity? What is the sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?’

“11Then you are to answer them: ‘It is because your fathers have forsaken Me, declares the LORD, and followed other gods, and served and worshiped them. They abandoned Me and did not keep My instruction. 12And you have done more evil than your fathers. See how each of you follows the stubbornness of his evil heart instead of obeying Me. 13So I will cast you out of this land into a land that neither you nor your fathers have known. There you will serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.’”

“In The Toilet”

Now, I live in the USA, which is what I know and understand, and I definitely see how this could be applying to my nation today, which has been sinking down in the toilet for some time now, which has to do with moral failure. But it isn’t just our heads of government who are “in the toilet,” but it is so much of what is called “church” which is catering to the world and to human flesh, and which is pacifying sin in sinful humans who call themselves Christians, and which is diluting the gospel to make it less offensive to the world.

This is about those who make professions of faith in Jesus Christ and who claim heaven as their eternal destiny but who are still living in deliberate and habitual sin against God, still catering to their sinful cravings, still doing what their flesh craves while ignoring God’s commands. Many of them are malicious, morally unclean, deceivers, manipulators, liars, untrustworthy, egocentric and fakes who fake their Christianity. They are also the selfish and the self-indulgent who deliberately and habitually sin against the Lord.

Judgment of God

God is getting ready to judge my nation, I believe, but only God knows the timing for that. But I can see it coming in the things which are happening in the government and in so much of what is called “the church” but which is being led by the flesh of men, instead. My nation appears to be “sinking down in the toilet” more and more each day, looking more and more like we are coming to a terrible end, as a nation. And so many people are following after the lies and are rejecting the truth because they love their sin more.

But if you don’t see it coming, and if you wonder why it might be coming, and soon, the answer given here to Jeremiah to give to the people fits so well with my nation and its people, too. And it truly goes back to our forefathers who began this nation under false pretenses, and those who sent them to conquer and to take this land for themselves, too, I believe. And many of them, under the guise of Christianity, were those who served other gods, the gods of this world, which is still the case today in my nation.

The False Church

So much of what is called “church” here in the USA is not the biblical body of believers in Jesus Christ, but they are conglomerates of human making partnered with the world and united with the state (the government) and with big business being marketed to the world just like other businesses. Most do not seem to operate as the biblical body of Christ, where each part does its work and where we minister to one another for the encouragement of the body of Christ in walks of obedience to God’s commands.

And so many of them today are teaching that we do not have to obey God’s commands, and that we do not have to repent of (turn away from) our sins as part of faith which saves, or they make these optional. And so many of them are continuing in deliberate and habitual sin, with sexual immorality appearing as the predominant sin among those living in addiction to sin. And so they are following the stubbornness of their evil hearts instead of obeying God because they are being given permission to do so by so many pastors.

Needing a Change

So something needs to happen to change all that. Sadly, it will probably take something tragic to bring many people to their knees in genuine biblical repentance where they will now cease to make sin their practice, and where now, by the grace of God, righteous living and moral purity and obeying our Lord’s commands will now be their practice. But sadly, even then, many will not turn from their sins, and they will not obey God, but they will continue to serve the gods of this world, and they will not have eternal life with God.

So, don’t be one of them. Repent of your sins today if you have not already done so, and begin today to follow Jesus Christ wherever He leads you in doing all that He commands. For the Scriptures teach that to have genuine faith which saves, by the grace of God, that we must deny self, die to sin, and obey our Lord as a matter of life practice (not necessarily in absolute perfection). And they teach that if we continue in deliberate and habitual sin, and not in walks of obedience to our Lord, we will not be saved from our sin.

What Is The Sin?

An Original Work / August 18, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Only in Him

Based off Isaiah 30

An Original Work / February 19, 2014

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Woe to those who look to man’s help;

Who turn away from Jesus Christ;

Forming an alliance not in step with God;

Making their own plans, and praying not.

Willing not to listen to truth,

They close their ears to what is right.

Pleasing words are all that they’ll hear;

Feel good messages that bring cheer.

Trust in your Lord; turn from your sin.

Put your faith now ONLY IN HIM.

Do not turn to idols. They’ll not satisfy.

Jesus will save you. That’s why He died.

Your Lord will be gracious to you.

He cares all about you, ‘tis true.

He forgives you all of your sin

When you give your life up to Him.

Oh, how truly gracious He’ll be

When you bow to Him on your knees;

Turning now from your sin; walking in his ways.

He’ll lead and guide you all of your days.

Now you will sing praises to Him.

He delivered you from your sin.

You’ll tell others now of His grace,

So they may see Christ face-to-face.

https://vimeo.com/87181019

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.

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

Run With It

Habakkuk 2

Thursday, August 20, 2026

They Do Not Obey God's Voice

Old Covenant vs New Covenant

Wednesday, August 19, 2026

I Am Yours

Where We Will Not Stumble

Admission vs Repentance

Giving People False Hopes

Tuesday, August 18, 2026

Old Cross, New Cross

What Is The Sin?

Disheartened and Discouraged

Those Who are Greedy for Gain

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