God Does Not Want to Use You He Loves You
What? Ever since I was a little kid people told me that God wanted to use me. I hear it almost every time I go to church. God really used me. Or God wants to use you.
God does not want to use you He loves you. So is the church wrong?
I don't know about you but I don't like it when people use me. Employers use their employees. Workers use their employers. Husbands use their wives; wives use their husbands. We love our cars. We love our houses. We are supposed to love people and use things. But we use people and love things.
My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. John 15: 13 & 14
"But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." Romans 5:8
So is it scriptural that God uses us?
Jesus used parables and words but He loved people.
For if these qualities (LOVE) are yours and are increasing, they render you neither USEless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Peter 1: 8
"But if the slave plainly says, 'I love my master, my wife and my children; I will not go out as a free man,' then his master shall bring him to God, ... ; and he shall serve him permanently. Exodus 21: 5 - 6
Peter, Paul, James, Jude, John, and many others were called bond servants of Christ. Being a bond servant implies that we can be of use but only if we are responding with love because we are loved. But it gets better.
"we might receive the adoption as sons. Because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!" Therefore you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God." Galatians 4: 5b - 7
So our Daddy "so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son," John 3: 16
"We love Him because He first loved us" 1 John 4:19
When respond to his love and allow His Love to flow through us we will do His work.
Respond to his love.
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