Love Freely

​"I will love them freely."—Hosea 14:4

As we go about our day today, let us remember to show mercy and extend the love of God. Let us do so, not because we have to, but because we choose to. Let us do so freely because we are free in Christ. 

“That sun shines into the house of the adulterer, into the face of the murderer, and the cell of the thief. No matter how sinful man may be, yet the light of day descends upon him unasked for and unsought. Such is the grace of God; where it comes it comes not because sought, or deserved, but simply from the goodness of the heart of God, which, like the sun, blesseth as it wills. No matter how vile, and black, and foul, and godless, men may be, he will have mercy on whom he will have mercy, and that free, rich, overflowing goodness of his can make the very worst and least deserving the objects of his best and choicest love.

Christ died, but Christ died because the Father loved. Do remember that this fountain of love has its spring in itself, not in you, nor in me, but only in the Father's own gracious, infinite heart of goodness. "I will love them freely," spontaneously, without any motive, but entirely because I choose to do it.” Charles Spurgeon

Let us choose to treat people the way we want to be treated and not how they treat us. That is the power we have been given as a believer. The power to show grace and love freely. 

GiGi❤️

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