Day 19 – Loving Life
The overflow of living God’s way, of obeying His commandments (which are for us and not for Him) is a life that overflows with joy, love, peace, kindness and so much more (Galatians 5:22-23).
It is a life that anyone would love to live.
Loving life is a fruit of receiving His love, loving Him back and others.
Life won’t ever be perfect. There’s still trials and bad things still happen. Storms will rage but facing them with Jesus is a million times better.
On day 1, we noted that Jesus said that He came to give us life to the full – John 10:10.
That’s not empty rhetoric!
He meant that 100%.
Loving life is the fruit.
Loving God and others is like caring for the tree.
Sweet oranges grow on healthy orange trees. Trees well watered and fed, without weeds and pests.
The parable of the sower speaks into this very topic, if you’d like to dig deeper (Matthew 13).