LOVE COMES FIRST
In the body of Christ, we are told to love others as Christ loves us. It is our responsibility to get informed, to love as Christ did through the knowledge He has given in His Word. It is a Choice!
John 13:35 “By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.”
Jesus didn’t say that all men would know we are His disciples by our doctrine, our rituals, our hatred for sin, or even by the way we express our love for God.
Jesus said very clearly, that the one characteristic that would cause the world to identify us as His followers, is our love, one for another.
The only way that Christ’s body will be one as the Father and Jesus are One, is through God’s kind of love.
Unity of believers, that can only come through a genuine God-kind of love, is the greatest tool for evangelism that the church has or will ever have, according to Jesus.
*The early church didn’t have the massive organizational structures that we see today or the ability to travel anywhere in the world in just a matter of hours.
Before we can ever fulfill the great commission of Matthew 28:19-20, there must be a revival of love in the church, where doctrine and ritual take a “back seat” to love for one another.
Let us weep and mourn for those who once walked with Jesus and have turned again to their own foolishness.
*Their eyes have grown dull and their hearts have grown cold to the reality of His kingdom.
*Let’s pray that Everyone, hear the Lord’s call to wake up and know the times and seasons and understand the futility of carnal living.
*Let’s Stir up our faith and rise again to acknowledge the Lord’s presence and power.
Let’s Trust in the Lord to direct us and keep us on the right path.
2 Peter 2:21-22 For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them. But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: “A dog returns to his own vomit,” and, “a sow, having washed, to her wallowing in the mire.”
What a life it would be without our Lord Jesus Christ. If we do not CHOOSE Christ what a serious and deadly problem we would have.
All the Bible just like all life is a history of choices and the consequences of those choices we individually make.
Lord, open my eyes daily to make the right choices and help me bring others into the light by BEING a living light myself. Help me understand your 10 commandments more each day and encourage us all to get them back into practice. Amen