Averting Leah’s Mistake

Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Leah, the unloved wife of Jacob, tried to earn his love by bearing him children. She said, "Now he'll love me." Some people think like Leah concerning God. If we bear enough fruit, if we're good enough, or do the right thing, then He will love us. Well, that was Leah's mistake. You never bear a child so that your husband will love you, you bear a child because your husband does loves you. The child is the fruit of the love. So with God, you don't bear God's fruit so that He will love you. You bear God's fruit because He does loves you. The fruit of your life; the good works, the love, the joy, the holiness, the self-control, that's the fruit of God loving you. We're not fruitful to make God love us, we can't. But if God loves us without any reason on our part, then we can bear the fruit of God miraculously. So stop trying to earn the love of God. You are loved. In that love go forth and bear Him fruit, the fruit of His love in you.

From Message #541 - The Children Of Leah