Healed Love – Holy Love

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For many years I carried a lot of spiritual baggage

But that all changed when I discovered the forgotten teaching of Jesus.  It was as if the Holy Spirit unfroze my hand which held so tightly to my spiritual baggage.  I call this wonderful experience healed love – holy love.

Two Bible passages are so important for healing our hearts which hold our spirituality, emotions, behaviors and love.  They are Romans 5:5 and 1 Corinthians 14:1.  The first teaches us that the Holy Spirit pours God’s Agape love into our hearts.  The second teaches us to pursue God’s divine Agape love.

His Love Healed My Heart

We know that our hearts are also infected by sin.  This infection makes our love selfish, self-centered, and self-absorbed.

The moment I accepted the Agape pouring of the Holy Spirit was the moment my heart healed from its wounds of sin, bad behavior, evil thoughts, and self hate.  I felt filled with God’s love.  It was as if my heart was completely enwrapped with Agape and I now stood in Agape love instead of my own sinful self.

I felt a newness to my love.  The power of my selfish, self-centered, and self-absorbed love was overcome by God’s Agape.  Much as my Savior who surrendered His life for my sin, I surrendered my love to the power of God’s love.

Closer to the Heart of God

My life changed.  I found my spiritual baggage to be excuses I used to empower my selfishness, my self-centeredness and my self-absorption.  While I still struggle with my flesh and Satan, my spirituality has deepened and my behavior has changed for the good.

Most importantly, I place all in God’s hands and let Jesus be my Good Shepherd who leads me.  I kneel before my Lord Jesus asking for His mercy and my forgiveness.  He is more than merciful.  He sends the Holy Spirit to continue the transformation of my mind.

Almost forgot.  1 Corinthians 14:1 teaches us to pursue agape.  You see, just like we pursue faith and hope through God’s Word and many prayers so as to stay close to God, to purse God’s Agape in the same way draws us deeper into the heart of God.

In Him Who so loved us,

Augie