July 3 Echoes of Eternity
According as He hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love.
Ephesians 1:4
My dear child, I speak to you in love. Your fear of what I might say grows out of an old, sick, and distorted view of Me and My relation to My children. You never ceased to love your own children, and you had no desire that fear of you would remain in that relationship. In like manner, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, but “perfect love casts out fear.” That means that as you
mature, your only fear is that of offending or grieving My love—not the self-oriented fear of what I might do to you. I speak to you in love because that is the essence of our relationship, from My perspective. I know that you still have far to go, but I do not despise you nor condemn you for it. Keep growing!