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A HOME OF LOVE

“Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.”

John 14:1-3 King James Version

I watched a family program on television last night. They were expecting a baby and had decided to decorate a room for the new baby. They hired a professional decorator and paid him a lot of money to design and furnish the room. After the room was finished, the dad stood in the doorway and told the decorator “It’s beautiful”. I believe when Jesus decorates our hearts with His love that our Heavenly Father looks down from Heaven and says “You are beautiful”.

One day God looked down and saw the condition that our hearts were in and He was moved with compassion for us and wanted us to be happy and set free from sin. He decided to decorate our hearts with His unconditional love, mercy, tenderness, and forgiveness so He sent Jesus to be our decorator. It cost our Heavenly Father all that He had to decorate our hearts, His own beloved Son.

Jesus was crucified on that cruel cross and He paid the debt for us that we could never pay. It is only by accepting Jesus as our personal Saviour and the sacrifice that He made that our hearts are decorated with His unconditional love, happiness, joy and peace. Not only is He decorating our mansions in Heaven; He is also decorating our hearts with compassion for others. He takes our sin hardened hearts and melts them into softened hearts so that He can use us as His vessels of unconditional love to one another.

What condition is your heart in today? Have you allowed Jesus to decorate your heart with His mercy, compassion, forgiveness, grace and unconditional love? Have you bowed your knees and heart at the feet of Jesus and invited Him into your heart to be your personal Saviour? Jesus paid a tremendous price for your salvation. Don’t let all the suffering that He endured for you be in vain. Say “yes” to Jesus right now and ask Him to forgive you and come into your heart to be your personal Saviour.

He was rejected, tortured, abused, spat upon, cursed, and mocked for you. He was beaten beyond recognition. He endured all of that pain for you because He loves you so much. I plead with you to invite Him into your heart to be your personal Saviour. He will give you a joy and peace that you have never known. He will never leave you, not even for one minute. He will never be too busy to talk to you.

There is no friend like Jesus! No one loves us like Jesus loves us. I have many friends who love me and I love them but if all of my friends were to withdraw their friendship from me, I have a friend who will never leave me and His name is Jesus. Is it any wonder that I love Him so much and will serve Him as long as He gives me breath? I give you my dearest and most precious friend, Jesus.

Joanne Lowe

September 21, 2007

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