Whoever Does Not Love Does Not Know God

1 John 4:8 "Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love."

       Lord, You have told us in the book of Jeremiah that man's heart is deceitful, sick, and desperately wicked, who can know it?  Without You, Lord, the kind of love for others that You have given is impossible.  Man has a terminal heart disease that cannot be fixed by by-pass or catheterization.  It can only be cured by a total heart transplant.  That is what You do at salvation, and thank You for it!   Only when we wholly trust You and Your perfect work on Calvary on our behalf can we love others as we ought.

     Dick and I are reading the first book in the Great Awakening series, "Proof", written by Bill Bright and Jack Cavanaugh.  The era is the mid 1800 in New York City.  Thousands of immigrants pour in each day, High Society,is more concerned with proper etiquette and blood lines than to care about those having to freeze, go hungry, are dying of unattended to illness and disease, and who do whatever necessary just to survive in the sin and filth infested area called "Five Point".  It is the story of a believer who is caught between the two.  The precious thing we have seen in the book is the difference the Lord makes in how we view others.  Without God we are consumed with ourselves.  Jesus opens the previously locked door of our selfishness and pride and shows us the world as He sees it.  Then He floods our hearts with a love that cannot be contained.
Hallelujah, what a Savior!