And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.
Do you remember your first taste of cake? Did it taste like baking soda? No. Did it taste like raw eggs? No. Did it taste like a glass of cold milk? No. Yet all those ingredients were in there and were needed to make that yummy cake. No one had to tell you it was yummy and prompt you to eat it, the desire for the cake was already in you. That indicates to me that there are certain attributes that are in our DNA. They don’t have to be learned or prompted or encouraged. They come along in the package God made called you!
I am sure you have encountered this with children. We need to teach them many values and characteristics we want to grow in them to become good people and citizens. We don’t ever teach them to talk back, ask ‘why’, pinch their sibling or leave their toys scattered everywhere. Somehow they learn that on their own! That is also part of the package…the sinful one.
Think about this for a minute. Your children. Your love for them, that overwhelming, lay down your life, love, did not have to be taught to you. It grew in your DNA and you could not resist it if you wanted to.
Father God has placed that type of love in each one of us! Think about it. At creation the spark that God energized each of us with, is HIM! We are His children, therefore just like us as earthlings have that great inbred love for our children, a love that does not need to be taught to us, a love that we would risk our life for, even give it if we had to choose between our life or there’s, that, and greater is the love God has for us! And yes, He did lay down His Son, in reality himself, so we could live with Him.
If you have any loved ones that are living outside the safety of Salvation, this verse is a great one to hold on to. That ‘spark’ for God still lives inside them, it just needs to be ignited!
We have many plants in our home. I like a plant that brings green and filters the air at the same time. One of my plants, nick named ‘zz’ because it has a long African name, stopped growing and started shriveling. I watered it, moved it, gave it fertilizer, re-potted it, nothing helped ‘zz’ start growing again. I placed it in the garage planning to use the pot for someone else in the future. We pretty much ignored it. About 3 months later, with no water, no sun and no attention, I saw a green shoot. It kept growing and more popped out of the dirt. I took ‘zz’ back into the house near a sunny window and gave it water. It is a beautiful full green plant now.
Inside that little ‘zz’ plant was the power given by it’s creator to be re-born. That’s what I’m talking about. Never give up on that ‘spark’ God put into your loved one, and in you. Continue to pray that the spark will get a ‘jump start’ somewhere and their heart will not be able to resist Jesus!
Do you remember a time when you needed a ‘jump start’ for your faith? What was it that prompted it?
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