My question for today's video post is, “Has God’s Love Been Poured Out Into Your Heart?”
I was reading Romans 5 today, and came upon verses 3 through 5. Here they are.
If you’re like me, you have difficulty feeling that immense heart-filled love. We think we’re not good enough, or important enough to feel it. But, whether we feel it or not, Paul wrote the verse as a fact, not just a feeling. When we take his words at face value, we can then recognize the fact that we have our hearts full of God’s love in good times and bad—even when we don’t feel good or important enough.
I’m retired now, and I wonder what I have left to give to my world and the people around me. Charlie Kirk was a Christian who was a legend, but is now gone. He had such an impact on so many people. I think of myself as a sort of peon who can never live up to what Charlie did. People around him called him a “joyful warrior” who faced adversity with a smile, joy, and enthusiasm—in essence, with a heart filled with God’s love. I don’t want to lift Charlie to sainthood. I know that many people thought he was Satan in the flesh. I wondered, and still wonder, why they didn’t see it the way I saw it.
But, that being said, I want to live in my world, my surroundings, and among the people around me, with it being evident that God’s love has been ‘poured out into my heart’! What about you?
I was reading Romans 5 today, and came upon verses 3 through 5. Here they are.
“We also boast in our afflictions, because we know that affliction produces endurance, endurance produces proven character, and proven character produces hope. This hope will not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.”Take it in, especially the part where Paul wrote, "This hope will not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.” God’s love doesn’t just trickle little by little into our hearts. His love doesn’t just fill a little bit of our hearts. It’s poured out to fill our hearts completely.
If you’re like me, you have difficulty feeling that immense heart-filled love. We think we’re not good enough, or important enough to feel it. But, whether we feel it or not, Paul wrote the verse as a fact, not just a feeling. When we take his words at face value, we can then recognize the fact that we have our hearts full of God’s love in good times and bad—even when we don’t feel good or important enough.
I’m retired now, and I wonder what I have left to give to my world and the people around me. Charlie Kirk was a Christian who was a legend, but is now gone. He had such an impact on so many people. I think of myself as a sort of peon who can never live up to what Charlie did. People around him called him a “joyful warrior” who faced adversity with a smile, joy, and enthusiasm—in essence, with a heart filled with God’s love. I don’t want to lift Charlie to sainthood. I know that many people thought he was Satan in the flesh. I wondered, and still wonder, why they didn’t see it the way I saw it.
But, that being said, I want to live in my world, my surroundings, and among the people around me, with it being evident that God’s love has been ‘poured out into my heart’! What about you?