Remembering to Love

Our church is doing 40 Days of Love. I stumbled upon this today and thought it went right along with what we are studying. It was weird because I had to double check to see if I wrote this because it was if I was reading what somebody else wrote as it spoke to me. I guess you could say God turned my own words on me! LOL.

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For some time, God has been speaking to me on the topic of love and abiding in Christ. The two of them go hand in hand. We cannot truly love apart from God (and I  know this by experience without a doubt).  We cannot fear if we have love because perfect love casts out fear.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love (1 John 4:18).

Have you ever noticed that at the root of all our bad behavior is fear? We fear being hurt. We fear failure. We fear insecurity. We fear not being loved. We fear pain. We fear suffering. We want to protect ourselves against these things because we fear them.  There is one thing that overcomes all of this fear. That thing is perfect love.

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The Narrow Path

 

Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it. – Matthew 7:13-14

Sometimes we believe that something is God’s will when really it’s just what we want to believe. We will not listen to those who speak Truth because we want to hear what we want to hear. We believe lies spoken by those who claim they hear from God when God’s Word is clear and those who we think are prophets are truly false teachers who tell us what we want to hear so we can please what our flesh desires and claim it’s God’s will when in reality it is our own. These liars dress up their claims with scripture to give themselves credibility when in reality it is not what the scripture is saying at all.  

A pretty reliable Truth to fall back when trying to discern between God’s will from what you want God’s will to be is this…

The easy path is rarely the right one.  It usually gets us lost, leads to destruction and takes us further from our destination.  Doing God’s will usually require great sacrifice but brings about such peace despite the circumstances. We must speak Truth even when it hurts…even when it causes division.

For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart. And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do. – Hebrews 4:12-13

The old saying, “Sometimes the truth hurts” is accurate. But it is also the stinging antiseptic that brings about healing.