If you really love Me, you will obey My commands. - John 14:15 (amplified) This is far more profound than we may realize. Obedience is how we show our love to the Lord. I may step on some toes here, but to be perfectly honest with you, if we are living in willful sin and choosing to ignore God's Word, we are walking a very dangerous line. Yes, He loves us and will forgive us for all of our sins. Yes, it is true HE will NEVER leave us. However, I must reiterate...we are walking a very dangerous line when we choose to disobey God. ...work out (cultivate, carry out to the goal, and fully complete) your own salvation with reverence and awe and trembling, self-distrust, with serious caution, watchfulness against temptation, timidly shrinking from whatever might offend God and discredit the name of Christ. - Philippians 2:12 (amplified) We should never assume that just because we accepted Jesus in our hearts that we can just live a life in sin and then quote mercy, grace and forgiveness … [Read more...]