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TWENTYSEVENTHfebruarytwoohohseven

wee in the morning.
for some reason i heard the still small voice say, John 3:16.
and i was like, harrrh?

the most famous text of the Christian faith.
our "motherhood" verse.
our bread and butter and kaya and toast and honey and jam and peanut butter and jelly and..

and i was like, haaaarrh?
Lord, what are You trying to tell me?

for those who already know:

"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." - John 3:16

i sensed this time (after some meditation) the keyword was LOVE.
God LOVEd the world so.
beyond our wildest imagination.
"so what?"

***FLASHBACK***
tribe meeting it was.
convicted we were.
go deep in the word we shall.

but beyond the conviction, beyond the pledges of application of going deep, i then felt the root issue was LOVE. or the lack thereof.
it was true we did not love God ENOUGH. we chose to neglect his Word.
but i did not want to force myself to read his Word simply out of fear of being "scolded" or wanting to be "praised".
i wanted to want to do it because i LOVE God.

so the question(s) is now: HOW to love God? WHY should we love God?

***FAST-FORWARD TO PRESENT***
we love God because he FIRST LOVED us.
"For God so loved the world.."
this is a powerful truth that we know in our heads but not in our HEARTS!
i asked (and am asking) God to show me more of his full-blown LOVE for us.

as we start to realise the true mind-blowing magnitude of his LOVE for us, we cannot help but to respond in LOVE to him.

and it is this LOVE that should be the motivation for our going DEEP with him.

"For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him." -John 3:17

in a nutshell, do NOT walk away from tribe meeting feeling CONDEMNED.
do NOT feel like u are an unholy, unrighteous, failure of a Christian!
it is the evil one trying to discourage u.

pastor was only convicting us of our lackofLOVE, but God LOVES us regardless, so DO NOT condemn yourself!
instead, respond in LOVE for him! because God LOVES you SO!

go DEEP because you LOVE God!