First, God asks you to give yourself fully to this adventure of increasing attentiveness to His presence. If you are not going to give yourself fully and commit to what God has to offer you, then there is no point in reading what I am about to say.
What is attentiveness? The easiest deffinition is: respect, thoughtfulness, and commitment. He simply asks us to commit to something that he offers us, free to us. Christ died for us all, for our sins and for eternal life given to us from God's son, Jesus Christ. Romans 5:6 says, "For when we were yet without strength, Christ died for the ungodly." God commandeth His love towards us, and while we were sinners, doing wrong and not on the path God has for us, God sent His son, and Jesus Christ (God's son) gave His life for us, to have eternal life with Him. Such a sacrifice, and obedience He had towards His father. A fearing attitude of respect and honor. If you look at the word FEAR, what is the first thing that pops into your head? Being scared? afraid? cautious of someone or something? Well...yes that is right, but this is a different kind of fear. A fear that you will only come across with your parents and God. It's a fear that allows one to have the obidience of Moses, and the humility of Paul. To surrender yourself for the love of someone else. To give yourself up to serve another. To say "Here I am Lord, send me," and give everything you are and have become, to the Lord. Let me tell you, it's easier said than done. I look back on my life and see where I have fallen and stumbled amongst the brokeness of my life, but it's because of Gods grace that I am here today where I am. The love of God is not through the bad things that happen to you, or the situations you go through, but the promise of God. That He will always be there, always, to pick you up and tell you how much He loves you and that everything is going to be okay. He will never leave you, and never forsake you.
Joy, the result of obedience. John 15:11 speaks of God giving us joy in our hearts, and that our joy might stay full. And then goes on to talk about love, loving one another out of joy. "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." John 15:13. This also intertwines with the word Agape Love. Selfless, sacrificial, unconditional love, the highest of the four types of love in the Bible. Agape Love is the kind of love Jesus Christ has for His Father and for His followers. Jesus lived out agape by sacrificing himself for the sins of the world by spending time with the ones who knew nothing. God has so much for our lives, and also for our eternity in Heaven if we dare ask Him into our hearts. John 14:2-3 says, "In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I got to prepare a place for you."....."And I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and recieve you unto myself; that where I am, there you may be also." God loves us enough to prepare a special place for us in heaven, for US, little ole sinners here stuck on this never ending sinnful world until Jesus comes again to recieve His children.
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