We need the Lord

So, this is a common theme in my writings recently. And I won’t apologize for it. And I don’t get tired of stating something so profound and simple and yet so important. We need the Lord. We need Him more than we need air, food, water, clothing, shelter, and on and on the list goes. We need God for it is only from Him and in Him that we truly have love, joy and peace. Love is not known because of some human emotive response to outside stimuli. Love is known as God is known. Love is, because God is. The apostle John reminds us in fact that God is love. Love is the selfless, gracious, merciful, beneficent, compassionate and good DNA of God and it is from His revealing and sharing of Himself with us that we know and experience love. Furthermore love manifests from and through a choice. A choice to give and a choice to receive. The same can be said of joy and peace. God’s essence is joyful because in Him there is no darkness, no sin, no despair, no guilt and no shame. In Him, all are completed and find their true meaning and eternal love, joy and peace. Love, joy and peace (and their many offshoots) are not learned, but rather are received, dwelt in and willfully shared with others. If you feel as though you have a lack of love or joy or peace in your life, there is nothing and there is no one that can fill that desperate longing except the Holy Spirit of God. You may have glimpses of these things by God’s prevenient grace and His omni-presence, but only as God dwells in you and you in Him will you ever find true contentment that will never fade away. As long as you are pressed into the heart of God you will feel, hear, receive, know and experience love, joy and peace that is both inexpressible in words and yet simultaneously overwhelmingly full of glory! So please, take my advice: press into the heart of God through prayer and worship and make sure to be still and know that He is Your love, joy and peace forevermore!!!