EVER WITH ME

What if the commandment you were taught to carry as a burden is the shape of the love you have been looking for?

"For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous." (1 John 5:3)

Many believers have learned to love God and fear His commandments. They have been told that grace and obedience pull in opposite directions, that the law is a chain, and that the commandments belong to another age. The result is a faith that is either anxious or careless. Ever With Me goes back to the Scriptures to ask a better question: what if the commandment was never the rival of love, but the form love takes when it comes from God?

From the first word God speaks in Genesis to the last chapter of Revelation, this book follows one thread through the whole Bible. God speaks before He asks. He gives the law on stone, promises to write it on the heart, sends His Son to fulfil it, and sends His Spirit to live it out from within. The commandment is never a wall between God and His people. It is the voice of a Father.

Ever With Me is Book One of The Love Series, built on one conviction: love in its true form is not generic. It has a Source, a cost, a shape and a direction. This book begins at the Source.

Inside this book

• Why God commanded in a garden of abundance, and what the first commandment was protecting


• What grace actually does, and why it was never permission for lawlessness


• How the Holy Spirit writes the commandment on the heart, so that obedience becomes nature rather than effort


• The commandment as diagnosis, protection, correction, sanctification and restoration


• The elder son of Luke 15: how a believer can keep every rule and never know the Father


• 55 chapters in 18 Parts, each with a Scripture epigraph and three Reflect questions for personal study or group use

The title comes from the Father's words to the son who stood outside His house: "Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine." (Luke 15:31) Read it slowly, with your Bible open. Every Scripture is quoted from the King James Version.