God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. Rom5.5 ESV
It is the Holy Spirit in us that shows if we truly belong to God. How do I know that the Spirit of Christ is in me? Well, just as we can tell when a man has had too much to drink, we can tell when the Holy Spirit has taken residence in our heart. We love more, and begin to demonstrate a greater patience with people and things. We also begin to find our joy in all that is right and good and true and start to acquire a taste for a different fair of delights. He moves us to acts of kindness, and we begin to find pleasure in serving. There is a greater degree of self-restraint, checking our words even our thoughts. A quiet peacefulness begins to bloom in an ambiance of meekness and humility. And we are all the while moved to bring faith where there is doubt, hope where there is despair, love where there is hate, and joy where there is sadness.
My wife and I hiked to a multi-tiered waterfall this past weekend. We watched with fascination as the water gently cascaded from one clear pool into another. So also is God’s love, pouring down from Heaven into us, then out of us into others. His presence poured in, will certainly overflow and pour out, a healing pool of refreshment ever cascading down into the hearts of those hurt then into the hurting. To belong to Him is to be part of an ever flowing multi-tiered waterfall of glory and grace. 5/12/2008 ts
Just me trying to be honest with God.
