At The Well

On Loving The Lord

By Luz Cintrón

March 9, 2002

Web Site:http://www.thepearlsofwisdom.net

Hear, O Israel:
The Lord our God,
the Lord is one!
Your shall love the Lord your God
with all your heart,
with all your soul,
and with all your strength.
Deuteronomy 6:4-5
This is a season in which His most Holy Spirit have been unearthing things
hidden from sight. A season of wind and fire. The wind of His Spirit,
carrying , leading, directing things like an orchestra director who knows
who is where and what they are to do. But things are inside my heart, in my
life, some of them are things I was not aware of. Other things come to be
understood under the light of His truth as it unveils my deception and
brings deliverance into His calling and purpose. That is the fire that
reveals the true nature of things and people.
This morning He told me to sit and share about loving Him with all of our
hearts, strength and might. Because He has been speaking about it, as He
removes hindrances in me to allow it to be and to become real in me. What
have I learnt?
I knew that Jesus said, that the devil was a liar, father of all lies, from
the beginning. Now I have seen the fruit of his deception in all the levels
of what is our lives. I have come to understand the fear of light that is
in our flesh. The multiple personalities we tend to assume,
compartmentalizing truth to areas and sections in our lives.
But I am to speak about love, you may say. And yes, but you see, one is not
possible without the other. These are the hard news, the broken heart news,
the moment in which we fall on the rock and get broken, crushed from the
false expectations, pretensions and guile that entwined in our flesh as it
is, extends its roots deeper and wider than we are able to see by
ourselves. In that deception the only one deceived is our heart, the eyes of
its understanding. No wonder it is also said that the heart is a deceptive
thing very hard to discern and understand. Deception is the axis of it all.
Deception working in and out of it.
If I were to tell you that your sin is, in that you are not loving the Lord
with all your strength, soul, and heart; what would be your first reaction?
Maybe you know and just strive to do better, maybe you feel offended that I
dare to speak of such a thing, and the more you try to prove how much you
have loved Him, it kind of feel deep down inside more like the covering of
something than the revealing of a truth. Fact is, the more offended we may
feel, the deeper the need in this area. I have learnt that loving Him and
embracing Him, is far more than the things I may do or may not do. It goes
beyond the level of works. If it doesn't't go deeper and farther it is not
at all, because we have missed the whole point. I am not talking or denying
the place and importance of the works of faith.
Be patient with me, bear with me, listen to what is said...
"with ALL your heart,
with ALL your soul,
and with ALL your strength...
All is not part, all is not measured, all is not scheduled, all is not
restricted, all have no limits, has no ends. Those who have looked upon Him
are transformed for ever. When we need our privacy, our time to ourselves
to "recuperate", (and I do not refer to physical rest which is needed, but
to the fear that arises when we feel we need to "disconnect" and get
involved in things "real" as of this realm) our zone of little comforts and
safety, something is going to change for us, forever. It is coming.
Because we can not love Him as He asks from us and love ourselves in a way
in which we live and remain self-centered. We may have become really skilled
in hiding things inside from others, our spirituality may be more guile than
insight from His Spirit leading us into His glory. Every time men
appropriates part of the glory that belongs to Him for the things He has
done, we are committing a sin. Every time, we are enthroned as more
spiritual than others and we allow it to happen, we are stealing from Him.

Many times the reason is simple, we lack the validation from our parent's
love, we live broken because of rejection, fruit of our own sins and the
sins of others against us. Then we are like broken cisterns, and His glory
because of His grace comes and fills His vessels, but the vessels can not
hold it. It leaks, it goes where it is not intended to go because we remain
broken. That is the reason why Ichabod times are upon us and we run from
place to place amazed of the wondrous things ministered in His name, that
should have been the normal day to day things in our lives as believers. We
are dried and it is manifested in the always seeking never attaining state
of our hearts.We also burn out because the strife to keep together what is
not together to begin with. We take pride in the things of the Spirit
ignoring that it is written that: He opposes the proud. Spiritual pride is
pride. It is all wrong and out of place.
A person may become addicted to the recognition of men and seek it so
earnestly it may look as spiritual hunger but its root is cursed, is sick,
is broken and its ends is self destruction. Then the seeking is for the
fishes and the loaves and not because He has Words Of Life. For the Words Of
Life are words of truth that strips us naked before ourselves, nothing
hidden. Only after that happens, then the true foundation can be laid and
the walls be brought up again. The heart can be made whole. For light is not
given to the blind until blindness is recognized and how can we recognize
our need if guile is our covering and deception keep being our way?
Hear O Israel, hear the Lord your God for He seeks to give you life and life
more abundant. He has not deserted you, nor has He abandoned you to your
weakness. He is still your shield and great reward. Listen to Him and live.
For a heart who has not been made whole through the Spirit Of Truth can not
give itself wholly to the Lord. Heed Him and remain prepared, for these are
the good news that Jesus said in the Gospel of John, written for us and all
who believe.
But when the Helper comes,
Whom I shall send to you from the Father,
The Spirit of Truth who proceeds from the Father,
He will testify of Me.
John 15:26

However, when He, the Spirit of Truth has come,
He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His
Own authority, but whatever He hears
He will speak; and He will tell you things to come.
He will glorify Me,
For He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you.
John 16:13-14

That Helper is the Spirit of Truth, Jesus in us, given from the Father. All
in Him is True, if Satan is the father of all lies and a deceiver from the
beginning, the Lord our God is True, True and Faithful in His Truth. His
love is real, never relents, never changes because it is based in truth.
That is His nature. We can not love Him, except if we receive His love
first and allow it to love Him from our hearts as it restores us, as it
rebuilds the fallen walls of these living tabernacles. We can not fulfill
the measure of love His heart request from us until we allow the Spirit of
Truth give us life shedding His light in us and through us. He who knows
what is truth will reveal it and not only reveal it to us but guide us to
it!
Through sin death came to us, working through deception, unable to realize
how dead we laid in our own blood, unclean until He touched us and cleansed
us. Now, from there to the level in which all of our hearts, soul and
strength loves Him back, a miracle and a transformation must take place. The
miracle of being born again and the transformation that truth embraced can
bring in us. For in our deception we remain blind until His Most Holy Spirit
ministers truth to us. Until then we are unable to discern the mundane, the
profane from what is holy even in our own flesh and it remains not a matter
of knowledge but of trust. For it is written:
He will sit as a refiner
And a purifier of silver;
He will purify the sons of Levi
And purge them as gold and silver
That they may offer to the Lord
And offering in righteousness.
Let us then, put off all pretenses. Let us put off guile and deception to
ourselves and to others and not only speak truth, but allow the Spirit Of
truth give us His Life as He uncovers all that is a lie, a deception in us,
unto us and unto the ones around us. Lets allow ourselves to become real.
Lets allow the confession of sins to each other, become part of the
christian walk once again and in doing so, love once again will be able to
cover multitude of sins , covering but not concealing. For in doing so, His
Spirit will grant the grace and become strength in us to perform His will
in us, from glory to glory. In so doing our lives will become living
epistles of hope to those who look into our lives. For He is Faithful and
able to complete the work He has started in us. For righteousness like truth
is more than a list of do's and don'ts. He is our Truth and our
Righteousness, lets now embrace Him and declare Him King in our lives. Let
us allow Him to become our hope of glory. Lets give Him all that is due unto
Him and declare Him Truthful as we acknowledge our sin.
For many things are coming for which truth will become a shelter and a
refuge, a stronghold of trust in the Lord. Confidence will be the fruit of
His love working through truth in the believer. Be wise and quick to receive
the provision of His grace into your live. For the favor of the Lord is
manifested through grace who works in us according to His mercy. And a heart
who is not whole can not love with its all. Repair the broken cisterns,
rebuilt the fallen walls of His tabernacles and His glory will fill them
both again. For that is the destiny that awaits for us. Let us enter with
confidence, trusting the Faithful One in who all Truth abides and is
manifested through His love for us in Christ Jesus. Let us then love Him
with all of our hearts, souls and with all of our strength fearing nothing
with our eyes fixed forever in the One we were created for.

Your servant in His love;
Luz Cintrón
Let us be glad and rejoice,
and give honour to Him: for
the marriage of the Lamb is come
and His wife hath made herself ready
...Revelation 19:7.

Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one! Your shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. Deuteronomy 6:4-5 This is a season in which His most Holy Spirit have been unearthing things hidden from sight. A season of wind and fire. The wind of His Spirit, carrying , leading, directing things like an orchestra director who knows who is where and what they are to do. But things are inside my heart, in my life, some of them are things I was not aware of. Other things come to be understood under the light of His truth as it unveils my deception and brings deliverance into His calling and purpose. That is the fire that reveals the true nature of things and people. This morning He told me to sit and share about loving Him with all of our hearts, strength and might. Because He has been speaking about it, as He removes hindrances in me to allow it to be and to become real in me. What have I learnt? I knew that Jesus said, that the devil was a liar, father of all lies, from the beginning. Now I have seen the fruit of his deception in all the levels of what is our lives. I have come to understand the fear of light that is in our flesh. The multiple personalities we tend to assume, compartmentalizing truth to areas and sections in our lives. But I am to speak about love, you may say. And yes, but you see, one is not possible without the other. These are the hard news, the broken heart news, the moment in which we fall on the rock and get broken, crushed from the false expectations, pretensions and guile that entwined in our flesh as it is, extends its roots deeper and wider than we are able to see by ourselves. In that deception the only one deceived is our heart, the eyes of its understanding. No wonder it is also said that the heart is a deceptive thing very hard to discern and understand. Deception is the axis of it all. Deception working in and out of it. If I were to tell you that your sin is, in that you are not loving the Lord with all your strength, soul, and heart; what would be your first reaction? Maybe you know and just strive to do better, maybe you feel offended that I dare to speak of such a thing, and the more you try to prove how much you have loved Him, it kind of feel deep down inside more like the covering of something than the revealing of a truth. Fact is, the more offended we may feel, the deeper the need in this area. I have learnt that loving Him and embracing Him, is far more than the things I may do or may not do. It goes beyond the level of works. If it doesn't't go deeper and farther it is not at all, because we have missed the whole point. I am not talking or denying the place and importance of the works of faith. Be patient with me, bear with me, listen to what is said... "with ALL your heart, with ALL your soul, and with ALL your strength... All is not part, all is not measured, all is not scheduled, all is not restricted, all have no limits, has no ends. Those who have looked upon Him are transformed for ever. When we need our privacy, our time to ourselves to "recuperate", (and I do not refer to physical rest which is needed, but to the fear that arises when we feel we need to "disconnect" and get involved in things "real" as of this realm) our zone of little comforts and safety, something is going to change for us, forever. It is coming. Because we can not love Him as He asks from us and love ourselves in a way in which we live and remain self-centered. We may have become really skilled in hiding things inside from others, our spirituality may be more guile than insight from His Spirit leading us into His glory. Every time men appropriates part of the glory that belongs to Him for the things He has done, we are committing a sin. Every time, we are enthroned as more spiritual than others and we allow it to happen, we are stealing from Him. Many times the reason is simple, we lack the validation from our parent's love, we live broken because of rejection, fruit of our own sins and the sins of others against us. Then we are like broken cisterns, and His glory because of His grace comes and fills His vessels, but the vessels can not hold it. It leaks, it goes where it is not intended to go because we remain broken. That is the reason why Ichabod times are upon us and we run from place to place amazed of the wondrous things ministered in His name, that should have been the normal day to day things in our lives as believers. We are dried and it is manifested in the always seeking never attaining state of our hearts.We also burn out because the strife to keep together what is not together to begin with. We take pride in the things of the Spirit ignoring that it is written that: He opposes the proud. Spiritual pride is pride. It is all wrong and out of place. A person may become addicted to the recognition of men and seek it so earnestly it may look as spiritual hunger but its root is cursed, is sick, is broken and its ends is self destruction. Then the seeking is for the fishes and the loaves and not because He has Words Of Life. For the Words Of Life are words of truth that strips us naked before ourselves, nothing hidden. Only after that happens, then the true foundation can be laid and the walls be brought up again. The heart can be made whole. For light is not given to the blind until blindness is recognized and how can we recognize our need if guile is our covering and deception keep being our way? Hear O Israel, hear the Lord your God for He seeks to give you life and life more abundant. He has not deserted you, nor has He abandoned you to your weakness. He is still your shield and great reward. Listen to Him and live. For a heart who has not been made whole through the Spirit Of Truth can not give itself wholly to the Lord. Heed Him and remain prepared, for these are the good news that Jesus said in the Gospel of John, written for us and all who believe. But when the Helper comes, Whom I shall send to you from the Father, The Spirit of Truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me. John 15:26 However, when He, the Spirit of Truth has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His Own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. He will glorify Me, For He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you. John 16:13-14 That Helper is the Spirit of Truth, Jesus in us, given from the Father. All in Him is True, if Satan is the father of all lies and a deceiver from the beginning, the Lord our God is True, True and Faithful in His Truth. His love is real, never relents, never changes because it is based in truth. That is His nature. We can not love Him, except if we receive His love first and allow it to love Him from our hearts as it restores us, as it rebuilds the fallen walls of these living tabernacles. We can not fulfill the measure of love His heart request from us until we allow the Spirit of Truth give us life shedding His light in us and through us. He who knows what is truth will reveal it and not only reveal it to us but guide us to it! Through sin death came to us, working through deception, unable to realize how dead we laid in our own blood, unclean until He touched us and cleansed us. Now, from there to the level in which all of our hearts, soul and strength loves Him back, a miracle and a transformation must take place. The miracle of being born again and the transformation that truth embraced can bring in us. For in our deception we remain blind until His Most Holy Spirit ministers truth to us. Until then we are unable to discern the mundane, the profane from what is holy even in our own flesh and it remains not a matter of knowledge but of trust. For it is written: He will sit as a refiner And a purifier of silver; He will purify the sons of Levi And purge them as gold and silver That they may offer to the Lord And offering in righteousness. Let us then, put off all pretenses. Let us put off guile and deception to ourselves and to others and not only speak truth, but allow the Spirit Of truth give us His Life as He uncovers all that is a lie, a deception in us, unto us and unto the ones around us. Lets allow ourselves to become real. Lets allow the confession of sins to each other, become part of the christian walk once again and in doing so, love once again will be able to cover multitude of sins , covering but not concealing. For in doing so, His Spirit will grant the grace and become strength in us to perform His will in us, from glory to glory. In so doing our lives will become living epistles of hope to those who look into our lives. For He is Faithful and able to complete the work He has started in us. For righteousness like truth is more than a list of do's and don'ts. He is our Truth and our Righteousness, lets now embrace Him and declare Him King in our lives. Let us allow Him to become our hope of glory. Lets give Him all that is due unto Him and declare Him Truthful as we acknowledge our sin. For many things are coming for which truth will become a shelter and a refuge, a stronghold of trust in the Lord. Confidence will be the fruit of His love working through truth in the believer. Be wise and quick to receive the provision of His grace into your live. For the favor of the Lord is manifested through grace who works in us according to His mercy. And a heart who is not whole can not love with its all. Repair the broken cisterns, rebuilt the fallen walls of His tabernacles and His glory will fill them both again. For that is the destiny that awaits for us. Let us enter with confidence, trusting the Faithful One in who all Truth abides and is manifested through His love for us in Christ Jesus. Let us then love Him with all of our hearts, souls and with all of our strength fearing nothing with our eyes fixed forever in the One we were created for. Your servant in His love; Luz Cintrón Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to Him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come and His wife hath made herself ready ...Revelation 19:7.

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