"But God demonstrates His own love for us in this, that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." God shows very clear that He is about demonstrating who He is. God is Love. We so often get into the model of action motivates Love. When it is put that way it can sound like a car is what makes gas go. It makes no sense. What fuels us as believers is not trying to do so we can be, it is recognizing who we are and that fuels what we do. To put is simple, we are only faking it when we are trying to do something because we think that is what we should be doing. At the heart of action is surrender, receiving, and recognizing. Love demonstrates action, it is what propels us, it isn't a feeling but a fact that we live loved and we are affirmed by God and Him alone.
Do you ever feel like a dry cracked sponge? Yet you wonder why you can't perform the "duties" of the christian life? We weren't meant to live that way, He is the vine we are the branches, we draw moment by moment from the very life of Christ within us. A follower of Christ is concerned with only one thing, Listening to the Heart of their heavenly Father and responding. The rest my friends is religion and will only add to your dry spell. Let this Christmas be a time of hearing the heart of those Christmas Carols, of Gods Love demonstrating action, receive that message, respond to what that message compels you to do.
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