Love is a
difficult subject matter to describe, and more difficult to present how it
works. I experience/show love every day and it always amazes me how effortless
it is to express. It is like breathing when mature, natural, without thought,
seamless with life, no thought to do it needed. True Love manifests itself
every moment because it “lives” in the one that it comes forth from, and can’t
help but overcome all other applications of actions. True Love, when mature,
takes authority over thoughts and responses before they are expressed and
thereby rendered impossible to take back.
The
expression of True Love searches for a way to serve and benefit all. It’s
thoughts (yes Love “thinks” for God is Love) is ever toward others as oneself,
it is the seamless expression of a relationship with God and the serving of
life. True Love cannot fail because God is Love and God cannot fail. He is our
mentor about Love and our example of its expression through Christ. He also “anoints”
us with His Love “because the Love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the
Holy Spirit”. A Christian that is growing in the “grace and knowledge of our
Lord Jesus Christ” will also be growing in Love because “we are being conformed
to His image and likeness”.
Remember
that mankind was “created in His image and likeness” but that was not enough we
still have to be “conformed to His image and likeness” by the maturation
process that takes place with Love “God in us the hope of glory”. God is
glorified in Love, with Love, and by the expression of His Love. Love glorifies
God because it is the very essence of His revelation to man. Love is a Holy
practice because again God is Love. You cannot separate Love from any of its
qualities lest it not be True Love but only a Pharisaical representation, one
that does not bless in the giving of it, but instead wants to oppress with the
wresting of its true meaning. Love is Pure, Holy, and Just, even as is He from
whom it comes from. Changing the definition of Love is to demean/defile God as
it defines who He is and how He expresses Himself to His creation. Love never
fails.
I write
these things as words to remind ourselves of the Purity of Love that we have
been asked and commanded to replicate so as to make the communication of the
Gospel full of power. Love is power. We are human and this reminding and
expression on Love is so that we can “see as face to face” in our practice and
decision to Love as we have been Loved “others as ourselves”. We must confess
in our hearts that Love has not been the only “deity” that has tried to control
our outward responses there in “we must die to ourselves daily” and be renewed
by the Holy Spirit. We must realize that before we have a chance to speak our
facial expression and actions are already “presenting your gospel” (that which
is manifest in your heart) to be observed by those around us. Actions speak
louder than words. If our actions, (through lack of mature Love), contradict
what we are speaking then how effective is our message. Thank God He says “My Word
will not come back void” or we might me ineffective altogether. Again “die
daily”!
Jesus was
considered in His time “one who spoke the truth with power and authority”. It
was easy for Him to do that because He was the very embodiment of Love. He
spoke what was in His heart. God’s Words were in His heart, God’s Love was in
His heart, “What goeth into a man does not defile the man for it goeth into his
gut and goeth out into the draft. But what defileth a man is what cometh out of
his mouth, that which cometh out of the mouth cometh from the heart, that is
what defileth the man” (my rendition). That’s why we say “Jesus comes into our
heart”, He fills our hearts with Love to give our words and actions “power” by
the Holy Spirit to be effective.
Love is
Power! It is the only part of our lives that (when expressed) can manifest and prove
the Truth about God. Nothing we do or say will have the same effect as when
done or said with True Love. Christ preached then manifested the Love of the
Father by having Compassion “on them” and healed them, or worked other miracles
to “prove” His Words. True Love brings Holy Spirit power to heal, deliver,
raise up, multiply, and manifest “our Father in Heaven.” True Love is life to
all that it is “breathed on”. When “power/virtue has gone out” True Love is at
work doing what it was designed to do, “redeem”. The very foundation of Love is
redemption as shown in Christ to us. God “created” then, by Love, “redeemed”
His (bent towards sin) creation, knowing of its fall to sin before He even
started. This is why “all thing that were created were created through Christ,
and there was nothing created outside of Him.” This is so that in Christ all
things are redeemed and that by the “Love of the Father.” True redemption is at
the heart of “all” deliverance from any oppression that can exist. Christ
proved His redeeming power by healing, raising the dead, multiplication of the
loaves, calming the seas, casting out demons, ect. I imagine that if “books
were written about all His mighty works they could fill the world”. Redeeming
Love did all that and more, it freed us from the grip of death and hell, and
promises us who believe a heavenly eternal life.
We sojourn
here “possessing the land” until that day that the promised inheritance becomes
manifest by moving into our “home in Glory.”
So until
that time has arrived, “posses the land”, redeem the time, die to ourselves,
and live in Love.
We are
soldiers and our Commander has issued an unchangeable decree (that He laid His
life down for to prove its irrefutable importance), to “Love one another.”
Go Ye and do
like wise.
You will
know your Love is Christ like because it will be manifest in Power.
God bless
and keep in His Love.
Love in
Christ
J&E
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