There is a beautiful experience waiting for you, beloved friend. If you haven’t already discovered it, as you read God’s Word and meditate upon it and allow the indwelling Holy Spirit to speak to you, your heart will rejoice in the truth of God.
Start straightening up areas where you’ve been disobeying God and fighting His Will – you will be spiritually motivated. The voltage level in your soul will be turned up and you will begin to shine for God.
That’s exactly what we say to other believers. “If you love Jesus, I love you too.” And then there is that open, free, uncalculated, non-scheming kind of love that doesn’t try to affect the other person at all – it just receives him or her with open heart, because of love for Jesus.
Your relationship with each other is to be based on that wonderful relationship that God has had with you. Divine love. Start at the cross, beloved. And then God will enable you to love other people.
How do you stay in love with Jesus? Do the things that keep you in love with Him: His Word, His fellowship, His presence, and prayer that connects you dynamically with the power of God.
You take time to wait on God and let the Holy Spirit guide you, and I can guarantee you, beloved, that you’ll be praying in line with the Will of God. And your prayer will have an answer.
Jesus speaks of your fruit and that means the productivity of the Christian life: producing by your impact upon other people, producing others who also know and love and abide in the Lord Jesus.
There is that delicious freedom and commitment to God’s Will, whatever it may be, that the Holy Spirit of God produces when you pray, as we say, in the Spirit.
This is something that ought to frighten every one of us: the possibility of through our own carelessness and willfulness, of separating ourselves from the life-giving, sustaining presence and power of our Lord Jesus Christ.