Flooded by the Love of God

The Father loves you. It is at this point of understanding that multitudes of believers fail God. Over and over again, they are willing to be convicted of sin and failure, but they will not allow the Holy Spirit to flood them with the Father’s love.

The legalist loves to live under conviction. He has never understood the love of God or allowed the Holy Spirit to minister that love to his soul.

The righteous person—the true lover of Jesus—loves reproof. He learns to welcome the Holy Spirit’s exposure of all his hidden areas of sin and unbelief because the more he deals with sin, the happier and freer he becomes.

There were times when I saw a variety of responses to my ministry newsletter. When I wrote a message that thundered with judgment, I got overwhelmingly approving responses. When I shared about the sweetness and love of Jesus, I received letters saying, “You are not preaching the truth anymore!” It is as though these people were saying, “If you are not reproving, then what you are saying cannot be the gospel.”

Such believers have never entered into the great love-mission of the Holy Spirit. This is an area where you must learn to walk in the Spirit and not by feelings. Walking in the Spirit means allowing the Holy Spirit to do in you what he was sent to do. And that means allowing him to flood your heart with the love of God. “Because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us” (Romans 5:5, NKJV).

Isaiah said, “As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you; and you shall be comforted in Jerusalem. When you see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like grass; the hand of the Lord shall be known to his servants” (Isaiah 66:13-14).