Post by Les Brewer on Jan 1, 2020 21:35:12 GMT
I WANT TO LOVE LIKE JESUS LOVES!
Love doesn’t purpose to hurt, to accuse, to reject; it doesn’t play the victim! It doesn’t play mind games! Love is not deceptive or abusive. Love is insightful and waits to understand. Love doesn’t cook up false narratives or concoct conspiracies of betrayal. Love never makes foolish demands to enslave; love is wise when it negotiates and demonstrates its kindness through patience. Love doesn’t impose itself with preconceived theories of conjecture; it weighs the balance with facts that are real and which are true to itself. Love that is the agape of God is a love that looks for the good of others.
My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth. (1 John 3:18 KJV)
I love the love of God and desire to see it grow greater in me. The agape of God is a supernatural love that supersedes my limited finite love which has respecter of persons. The agape of God purges my soul and tenderizes my heart; it allows me to allot grace where it is unmerited. The agape of God gives me wisdom to speak His mind and gives me discernment to see pass the exterior to sense the hurts of the interior. The agape of God doesn’t comply to the dictates of my sanctimonious pretense of self-centered carnal love; it kindly reminds me of its higher purposes. O that we would listen to stirring compassion and to understand the imperatives of this agape. O that we could see that even the darkest heart is transformed by its life-giving flow. O that we could understand it and let it live within us to accomplish every purpose to change the hearts of man.
Our great commission is the mission and labor of love; to love those who are lost living in the vacuum of sin. God reminds us of the one who blinds and binds the lost whether they’re a self-professed sinner or a sanctimonious hypocrite; both are blinded by the same wretched deceiver who is the adversary of our souls. Our mission is to love them with the love of Christ with the aim of winning them to the truth and the light that exposes the darkness which is their habitation. O the love of Christ that gives us mercy and grace; O the love of Christ that transforms us and saves us from ourselves. O the love of Christ that pierces the hardest of hearts; let it shine through us to the glory of the Lord.
Brethren, let us keep the faith today by making a decision to yield to the Holy Spirit and give us a fresh cleansing and to fill us with the fullness of God; the God of love, mercy, and grace. Selah
Shalom, Agape, & Amen!
D. Ray Ritchie (Bishop)
Love doesn’t purpose to hurt, to accuse, to reject; it doesn’t play the victim! It doesn’t play mind games! Love is not deceptive or abusive. Love is insightful and waits to understand. Love doesn’t cook up false narratives or concoct conspiracies of betrayal. Love never makes foolish demands to enslave; love is wise when it negotiates and demonstrates its kindness through patience. Love doesn’t impose itself with preconceived theories of conjecture; it weighs the balance with facts that are real and which are true to itself. Love that is the agape of God is a love that looks for the good of others.
My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth. (1 John 3:18 KJV)
I love the love of God and desire to see it grow greater in me. The agape of God is a supernatural love that supersedes my limited finite love which has respecter of persons. The agape of God purges my soul and tenderizes my heart; it allows me to allot grace where it is unmerited. The agape of God gives me wisdom to speak His mind and gives me discernment to see pass the exterior to sense the hurts of the interior. The agape of God doesn’t comply to the dictates of my sanctimonious pretense of self-centered carnal love; it kindly reminds me of its higher purposes. O that we would listen to stirring compassion and to understand the imperatives of this agape. O that we could see that even the darkest heart is transformed by its life-giving flow. O that we could understand it and let it live within us to accomplish every purpose to change the hearts of man.
Our great commission is the mission and labor of love; to love those who are lost living in the vacuum of sin. God reminds us of the one who blinds and binds the lost whether they’re a self-professed sinner or a sanctimonious hypocrite; both are blinded by the same wretched deceiver who is the adversary of our souls. Our mission is to love them with the love of Christ with the aim of winning them to the truth and the light that exposes the darkness which is their habitation. O the love of Christ that gives us mercy and grace; O the love of Christ that transforms us and saves us from ourselves. O the love of Christ that pierces the hardest of hearts; let it shine through us to the glory of the Lord.
Brethren, let us keep the faith today by making a decision to yield to the Holy Spirit and give us a fresh cleansing and to fill us with the fullness of God; the God of love, mercy, and grace. Selah
Shalom, Agape, & Amen!
D. Ray Ritchie (Bishop)
