In HIS image...
One of the fundamental mistakes people make in their relationship with God is to view Him as human. He is NOT human. He is a total different specie. Humans are made in His image. We are like Him. In His likeness.
That does not mean that He is like us.
God cannot lie, sin or be unfaithful. God is always light and love. God is outside of time. He is everywhere and every time at the same time. God does not die or stop being. He always was and always will be. He knows everything and sees everything. He can choose to limit Himself in His dealings with a specific person. He can understand completely since He knows completely.
He cannot be tempted since He has no sin-nature.
When we relate to Him as if He is another human being we falter and fail. When I relate to a pet, I cannot think it to be a child. The misconception will bring about a flawed relationship. If I expect the pet to act and re-act like a child I will be disappointed. It is not the pets fault that I had erroneous expectations.
Applying human logic to God almost always leads to a cul-de-suc. He is so much more than we can reason out. When we apply human wisdom and understanding, we will come to a place of astonishment with no explenation. When we attempt to grasp Him with human emotions we find ourselves fickle, superficial and Him so much more comprehensive and enduring. Our physical bodies cannot even begin to stand in His presence.
So how can we relate to this God... who is so much more, so much greater, so much better than anything we can invent, envision or dream up?
On His terms. That is the only terms. By His power, ability. It is the only power. By asking Him to do in us what He tells us to do. By admitting that we can't, but He can. By submitting to His plan, His authority. Our only contribution is to yield. Our only authentic, unique ingredient to this recipe is our choice and even in that He can make us willing if we desire to be made willing.
Presumption and assumption must cease if we ever would have a true relationship with Him. And our only prayer: "Lord, make me willing to be made willing..."
Showing posts with label What is God. Show all posts
Showing posts with label What is God. Show all posts
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Wednesday, February 02, 2011
The Knowing of God. Marietjie Chase
My people perish. go astray, are being taken captive and led into bondage because of a lack of knowledge. This knowledge is not the learning from schooling, for then we will mostly be free and prospering. Neither is this knowledge the knowledge of the demonic or specific doctrines of the church or the Bible, for then we would have already infected the entire globe with freedom. No, this knowledge is the knowledge, the knowing of God. We, as the church, the bride and Body of Jesus Christ, do not know Him.
There is no understanding of His ways. Few know His character enough to refuse the lie when it is whispered in their ear. And even fewer knows His voice.
The knowledge, the relationship, the seeking after God; has taken second place to our inner fightings about words, doctrine, methods and interpretations. We have become so concerned with the provision for the bride that we have left her standing outside in the rain.
God reveals Himself to those who diligently seek Him... Not seeking His gifts, His justifying your point of view or behavior. He reveals Himself to those who come to Him for Himself.
Where have all the God seekers gone? The master of the wedding feast said to those who have done the signs and miracles and wonders, go away for I know you not. Do we even have an idea of where the map is that leads us to the treasure of an intimate, personal relationship with God? Have we walked with Him in the cool of the evening? Have we heeded His call into seasons of separations, prayer and fasting? Have we neglected His written word or twisted it to fit our pet-doctrine and pyramid scheme?
Where does God fit into our lives? Is He the beginning and the end? Or maybe He is just the first 10 minutes and last 2 minutes of our day. Maybe we only call on Him when the buildings starts to colapse and grey smoke and ash billows in the streets, like the monsters in a sci-fi movie, toward us. And even further away, have we reduced Him to a word of cursing that we use when we are outraged or stub our toe? Where does He fit into our lives?
Are you one of the few, the very few, who have found the treasure of being truely in Him? Have you found the sweet aroma of His presence, that makes even the darkest cloud have a silver lining? Have you found in Him a lover, a friend, a companion, a father, a brother that is there when you breath His name and even if you don't? And do you know the awesome nearness of His presence. Can you recognise His manifested presence in the quiet or in the noise? Can you tell what is Him and what is not? Do you see Him coming to you riding the clouds, enthroned on your praise and lifted high in the exaltation of your bended heart in worship?
Do you see Him high and lifted up or have your own importance clouded the picture of who and what He is? What would you answer in defense of such a relation, that made the universe, keep the stars in place, set boundaries for the waves of the sea and yet stand by while millions are slaughtered by a crazed madman, millions be dismembered and de-brained before they even take their first breath? What would you say when the lies, half-truths and deceiving visions about Him comes flooding? Do you know Him and more important yet: Are you known by Him?
My people perish. go astray, are being taken captive and led into bondage because of a lack of knowledge. This knowledge is not the learning from schooling, for then we will mostly be free and prospering. Neither is this knowledge the knowledge of the demonic or specific doctrines of the church or the Bible, for then we would have already infected the entire globe with freedom. No, this knowledge is the knowledge, the knowing of God. We, as the church, the bride and Body of Jesus Christ, do not know Him.
There is no understanding of His ways. Few know His character enough to refuse the lie when it is whispered in their ear. And even fewer knows His voice.
The knowledge, the relationship, the seeking after God; has taken second place to our inner fightings about words, doctrine, methods and interpretations. We have become so concerned with the provision for the bride that we have left her standing outside in the rain.
God reveals Himself to those who diligently seek Him... Not seeking His gifts, His justifying your point of view or behavior. He reveals Himself to those who come to Him for Himself.
Where have all the God seekers gone? The master of the wedding feast said to those who have done the signs and miracles and wonders, go away for I know you not. Do we even have an idea of where the map is that leads us to the treasure of an intimate, personal relationship with God? Have we walked with Him in the cool of the evening? Have we heeded His call into seasons of separations, prayer and fasting? Have we neglected His written word or twisted it to fit our pet-doctrine and pyramid scheme?
Where does God fit into our lives? Is He the beginning and the end? Or maybe He is just the first 10 minutes and last 2 minutes of our day. Maybe we only call on Him when the buildings starts to colapse and grey smoke and ash billows in the streets, like the monsters in a sci-fi movie, toward us. And even further away, have we reduced Him to a word of cursing that we use when we are outraged or stub our toe? Where does He fit into our lives?
Are you one of the few, the very few, who have found the treasure of being truely in Him? Have you found the sweet aroma of His presence, that makes even the darkest cloud have a silver lining? Have you found in Him a lover, a friend, a companion, a father, a brother that is there when you breath His name and even if you don't? And do you know the awesome nearness of His presence. Can you recognise His manifested presence in the quiet or in the noise? Can you tell what is Him and what is not? Do you see Him coming to you riding the clouds, enthroned on your praise and lifted high in the exaltation of your bended heart in worship?
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Another Jesus, Another Gospel or Another Spirit??? by Marietjie
We were in South Africa at a ministry that trained many young people to be missionaries. I was pregnant and had a toddler running around. I heard the young speaker over the the loud speaker say something that made me pick up my kid, wobble into the meeting tent, taking the diaper-bag and telling my husband that we can leave; I've heard enough. What did she say? She said: " We don't need Jesus any longer."
There have since been so many strange, odd and weird things coming through the church (global) that I am starting to loose feeling in my face from the centriphical force. If it isn't some plastic Jesus that cannot ever offend anyone or a Jesus that is some mystical force instead of a person, then we are fed an image of God that have little to no base in scripture at all. The portrait of God is distorted about as much as if Picasso, Van Gogh and some abstract artist all shared the same canvas. No wonder the church is empty and the New Age orgies are turning crowds away at the gate. We can't even agree on our God. At least in places like India, they openly say that it is many gods. Christians pretend that they all worship the same God but all you have to do is listen, really listen and you will find a cacophony of different gods.
The gospel that seemed rather simple and straight forward to me at the beginning of my journey, now seemed to have sprouted, secrets, mysteries and implications that boggles the mind. You need more than faith to believe some of the theories and fallacies that is sold as doctrine; and I mean sold. You actually have to loose your mind and crucify common sense. It seems like every Dick, Tom and Jane sucks a new teaching out of their thumbs and it almost always ridicule and/or contradict something that has been historically believed. Have we really become so brainwashed and hypnotized that we can't see that the Emperor is REALLY naked?
There is also a new sort of spirit in Christians or I dare say, supposed Christian circles. It used to be that the believers were recognised by a sweet spirit of gentleness and humility. It used to be that they would have an atmosphere of goodness, kindness and honesty around them. The value nowadays is on who can be the sharpest tongue and the best at making money or who can have the greatest attitude of slander, sarcasm and ridicule. Arrogance, pride and boasting is rewarded with lots of money and the people keep giving even when it is openly known that the leaders are sinning. Not only do we not humble ourselves, we see it as our right to swarm down like vultures on every one and anyone that we can tear to pieces. The atmosphere of suspicion and distrust is billowing like black factory smoke from the internet.
How far have we fallen?
Is the gift of God in Jesus Christ not good enough, wonderful enough, precious enough that we have to add, twist and re-interpret it. How long has it been since you have heard a simple Gospel message? The Bible that has been miraculously preserved all of these years, has become outdated to some and replaced with their own ideas and words. Why is it not good enough anymore? What is this spirit that is masquerading as the Holy Spirit? I do not know it, do you?
Simple devotion to God through Jesus Christ by the enablement of the Holy Spirit is to un-exciting for some, but it is the only thing that will last. This pool has been muddied enough.
I overheard a mail clerk at the post office while sorting the mail, when the Christian Book Distributors catalogs came out: "I don't get this" she said " how many different ways can you tell that story?"
I am starting to wonder if she was right or maybe the story that is being told is not the real thing.
We were in South Africa at a ministry that trained many young people to be missionaries. I was pregnant and had a toddler running around. I heard the young speaker over the the loud speaker say something that made me pick up my kid, wobble into the meeting tent, taking the diaper-bag and telling my husband that we can leave; I've heard enough. What did she say? She said: " We don't need Jesus any longer."
There have since been so many strange, odd and weird things coming through the church (global) that I am starting to loose feeling in my face from the centriphical force. If it isn't some plastic Jesus that cannot ever offend anyone or a Jesus that is some mystical force instead of a person, then we are fed an image of God that have little to no base in scripture at all. The portrait of God is distorted about as much as if Picasso, Van Gogh and some abstract artist all shared the same canvas. No wonder the church is empty and the New Age orgies are turning crowds away at the gate. We can't even agree on our God. At least in places like India, they openly say that it is many gods. Christians pretend that they all worship the same God but all you have to do is listen, really listen and you will find a cacophony of different gods.
The gospel that seemed rather simple and straight forward to me at the beginning of my journey, now seemed to have sprouted, secrets, mysteries and implications that boggles the mind. You need more than faith to believe some of the theories and fallacies that is sold as doctrine; and I mean sold. You actually have to loose your mind and crucify common sense. It seems like every Dick, Tom and Jane sucks a new teaching out of their thumbs and it almost always ridicule and/or contradict something that has been historically believed. Have we really become so brainwashed and hypnotized that we can't see that the Emperor is REALLY naked?
There is also a new sort of spirit in Christians or I dare say, supposed Christian circles. It used to be that the believers were recognised by a sweet spirit of gentleness and humility. It used to be that they would have an atmosphere of goodness, kindness and honesty around them. The value nowadays is on who can be the sharpest tongue and the best at making money or who can have the greatest attitude of slander, sarcasm and ridicule. Arrogance, pride and boasting is rewarded with lots of money and the people keep giving even when it is openly known that the leaders are sinning. Not only do we not humble ourselves, we see it as our right to swarm down like vultures on every one and anyone that we can tear to pieces. The atmosphere of suspicion and distrust is billowing like black factory smoke from the internet.
How far have we fallen?
Is the gift of God in Jesus Christ not good enough, wonderful enough, precious enough that we have to add, twist and re-interpret it. How long has it been since you have heard a simple Gospel message? The Bible that has been miraculously preserved all of these years, has become outdated to some and replaced with their own ideas and words. Why is it not good enough anymore? What is this spirit that is masquerading as the Holy Spirit? I do not know it, do you?
Simple devotion to God through Jesus Christ by the enablement of the Holy Spirit is to un-exciting for some, but it is the only thing that will last. This pool has been muddied enough.
I overheard a mail clerk at the post office while sorting the mail, when the Christian Book Distributors catalogs came out: "I don't get this" she said " how many different ways can you tell that story?"
I am starting to wonder if she was right or maybe the story that is being told is not the real thing.
Saturday, August 14, 2010
God is God by marietjie Chase
The president, government, doctors, your spouse, boss, teacher or pastor is NOT God. You give them due respect but they do NOT deserve your worship and first place in your devotion. We misunderstand submission and get lost in a quagmire of idol worship until we find ourselves choked in circumstances we cannot comprehend. When we de-throne God in our hearts, we play with fire. What is it that you give the most time, money and energy to? What occupy most of your thoughts? When you have decisions to make, what are you thinking? Maybe you think: " I wonder what my mother/father/pastor/friend/etc would think or say?" This is placing that person in the place of God in our lives. Some may say, and this is maybe more often true, I don't think of anyone else; I just do what is right for me. Well, then you worship at the altar of self.
Jesus said: "I delight to do Your will O, God"
When we worship God in spirit and in truth, we live for His will. We desire to please Him first and foremost. Our concern is first with what God wants. Our submission is first to Him. We commit our lives, and all that it entails, to Him and trust Him with it. We ask ourselves what God would have us do. We search the scriptures and pray for answers. We obey God. The Bible says that those who have a heart postured at obedience, will know the will of God. We have faith, trust and peace with His will for us.When God is God in our lives, we do not call the shots. We do not demand from or command God. We do not make plans, or do things, and then demand God's blessing upon it. We do not walk in presumption and then get angry because God does not fall in with our plans.When God is God we walk in humility, honesty and uprightness before Him.
There is nothing wrong with asking, in humility, when we do not understand, like Mary did. It is when we get angry at God, when we get offended at His godness, we step out of submission and into rebellion. When we do not understand, we find peace in the fact that because He IS God that He has all things in control. That He has a plan and a purpose and that we and all that concerns us, is safe in His hands.
Could we believe that? Could we believe that God is God?
The question still re-vibrates through the ages: "Who are you and who is your god?"
The Unchanging God by Marietjie Chase
The way I hear some folks talk you would think that there are a few hundred different god's who send their son to die on a cross. The way people relate to God and make Him sound like; makes one think that He is like us and made in our image...That is obviously putting the cart in front of the horse.
Not only is He an eternal, everlasting God, He also does not change. He is forever the same.
Before we go and make a god palatable to us, a god that fits our box, let's find out who He really is. Let's just simply look at what is already revealed. God says of Himself :"I am the LORD, I change not." Malachi 3:6. In Numbers 23:19 He says: " God is not a man, that He should lie, nor the son of man that He should repent.” Hebrews 13:8 says: "Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, today and forever." Since God is God, we can only know Him by what He reveals of Himself. "Going through a long line of prophets, God has been addressing our ancestors in different ways for centuries. Recently he spoke to us directly through his Son. By his Son, God created the world in the beginning, and it will all belong to the Son at the end. This Son perfectly mirrors God, and is stamped with God's nature. He holds everything together by what he says—powerful words! " Hebrews 1: 1-2 When we study the Bible to know God, we will see who He is. When we see how He deals with people in the Old Testament we get to know Him. This does not mean that our own History with God should be discounted. Just remember that because you are involved, that it is subjective. Still, let us agree with Paul when he says:"That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;" Phil 3:10
Some folks think there is an Old Testament God and a New Testament God. This is deceiption. There is only one God. God did not change. Who He is does not change. He demanded sacrifice for sin in the Old Testament and He demanded sacrifice for sin in the New Testament. In the Old Testament it was bulls, calves and steers in the New Testament He provided His own sacrifice, His Son, Jesus Christ. He was a Holy God in the past and is still a Holy God. He hated sin then and still hates sin. He loved His people then and He loves His people now. Those who neglect any part of the Bible will have a dilusional idea of God.
God does not change, He does not mature, He does not grow. What changes, is our relationship with Him as we get to know Him better and more intimately. We are the variable in the equation. God is the constant. The old hymn writers knew this: "A Mighty Fortress is our God," "My Anchor holds...", " On Christ the solid Rock I stand..."
For some of us who are constantly being shaken by the waves of ever-changing life, we find comfort in this. God will never change. He will be our anchor, our sure foundation, since in Him, there is no shadow of changing. The world may change, the sun, moon and stars may change but God will never change. The God that was there at creation is still the same God whom we worship today. The God who is going to be there at the end is the same God we are relating to today.
We can hold onto this. We can find a footing in this. We can find our balance in this. God will not change and He will always be there..
Thank You Father, that You are a Solid refuge and an unchangeable Fortress.
The way I hear some folks talk you would think that there are a few hundred different god's who send their son to die on a cross. The way people relate to God and make Him sound like; makes one think that He is like us and made in our image...That is obviously putting the cart in front of the horse.
Not only is He an eternal, everlasting God, He also does not change. He is forever the same.
Before we go and make a god palatable to us, a god that fits our box, let's find out who He really is. Let's just simply look at what is already revealed. God says of Himself :"I am the LORD, I change not." Malachi 3:6. In Numbers 23:19 He says: " God is not a man, that He should lie, nor the son of man that He should repent.” Hebrews 13:8 says: "Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, today and forever." Since God is God, we can only know Him by what He reveals of Himself. "Going through a long line of prophets, God has been addressing our ancestors in different ways for centuries. Recently he spoke to us directly through his Son. By his Son, God created the world in the beginning, and it will all belong to the Son at the end. This Son perfectly mirrors God, and is stamped with God's nature. He holds everything together by what he says—powerful words! " Hebrews 1: 1-2 When we study the Bible to know God, we will see who He is. When we see how He deals with people in the Old Testament we get to know Him. This does not mean that our own History with God should be discounted. Just remember that because you are involved, that it is subjective. Still, let us agree with Paul when he says:"That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;" Phil 3:10
Some folks think there is an Old Testament God and a New Testament God. This is deceiption. There is only one God. God did not change. Who He is does not change. He demanded sacrifice for sin in the Old Testament and He demanded sacrifice for sin in the New Testament. In the Old Testament it was bulls, calves and steers in the New Testament He provided His own sacrifice, His Son, Jesus Christ. He was a Holy God in the past and is still a Holy God. He hated sin then and still hates sin. He loved His people then and He loves His people now. Those who neglect any part of the Bible will have a dilusional idea of God.
God does not change, He does not mature, He does not grow. What changes, is our relationship with Him as we get to know Him better and more intimately. We are the variable in the equation. God is the constant. The old hymn writers knew this: "A Mighty Fortress is our God," "My Anchor holds...", " On Christ the solid Rock I stand..."
For some of us who are constantly being shaken by the waves of ever-changing life, we find comfort in this. God will never change. He will be our anchor, our sure foundation, since in Him, there is no shadow of changing. The world may change, the sun, moon and stars may change but God will never change. The God that was there at creation is still the same God whom we worship today. The God who is going to be there at the end is the same God we are relating to today.
We can hold onto this. We can find a footing in this. We can find our balance in this. God will not change and He will always be there..
Thank You Father, that You are a Solid refuge and an unchangeable Fortress.
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Everlasting Father...Marietjie Chase
Jesus said that before Abraham was, He is. The Bible says that Jesus is the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. We call God Eternal God, Everlasting Father but do we really believe this? When God revealed Himself to Moses at the burning bush, He called Himself " I Am".
God created 'Time" for us. Elementary science explains time as we know it, chronological time, as something that comes from the earth rotating around it's own axil, days and hours, and from the loop that the earth makes around the sun, years. Months comes from the moon's rotation around the earth. All this was created "in the beginning..." by God. The Creator is bigger than the created. He is outside of this thing called time. Yes, sometimes He deals with years, days and hours for our benefit, but He is NOT trapped in Time. God is eternal, without end or beginning. He holds the universe in His hands.
Jesus said to the Sadducees: " You are mistaken because you do not know the scripture nor the power of God." And today, because so many preaches their pet-doctrine instead of declaring God, few actuallly knows Him. Just listen to what people say and how they talk before and about God. Had they known Him by what He has already revealed, the reality of their lives would be different.
Man is NOT the center of Christianity, God is. Theology is the study of God. When we talk about Him or make doctrine, we need to at least know God.
Jesus said that before Abraham was, He is. The Bible says that Jesus is the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. We call God Eternal God, Everlasting Father but do we really believe this? When God revealed Himself to Moses at the burning bush, He called Himself " I Am".
God created 'Time" for us. Elementary science explains time as we know it, chronological time, as something that comes from the earth rotating around it's own axil, days and hours, and from the loop that the earth makes around the sun, years. Months comes from the moon's rotation around the earth. All this was created "in the beginning..." by God. The Creator is bigger than the created. He is outside of this thing called time. Yes, sometimes He deals with years, days and hours for our benefit, but He is NOT trapped in Time. God is eternal, without end or beginning. He holds the universe in His hands. What is the implications of this?
It explains a lot of things for me. God can see way more of our past, present and future than we can. The view is almost like what we see in relation to what an ant sees or the kids in " Honey, I shrunk the kids". Because God is everywhere, past, present and future at once, it makes sense that He will know the end from the beginning. It explains prophesy. It explains why God can call the things that are not as though they are. It explains why Gideon hiding in the winepress were addressed as a "mighty warrior".
It explains co-crucifixion. The instant I accept Jesus Christ as my personal savior and Lord, I am crucified with Him. God sees it all at once. When I call upon the name of Jesus, my life becomes His and His life becomes mine. Then in this way I died and I am no longer a sinner but a saint. I have died with Christ and am no longer a slave to sin. The crucifixion of Jesus is not history. It is as real as it was when it happened. That is the reality of being outside of time.
It explains how the blood of Jesus, spilled 2000 years ago, our time, can still redeem sinners. The blood of Jesus, is now. It is timeless. It does not grow old or powerless because it is not bound by time. It is ever-present to free whosoever will believe in Him. It is ever present to cleans us and sanctify us from all spot, wrinkles and shortcommings.
And I am sure that meditating on this attribute of God, this revealed truth about the God that we serve, will bring more light to us...
Jesus said to the Sadducees: " You are mistaken because you do not know the scripture nor the power of God." And today, because so many preaches their pet-doctrine instead of declaring God, few actuallly knows Him. Just listen to what people say and how they talk before and about God. Had they known Him by what He has already revealed, the reality of their lives would be different.
Man is NOT the center of Christianity, God is. Theology is the study of God. When we talk about Him or make doctrine, we need to at least know God.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
LOVE - AGAPE
God is Love John 4: 8
Jesus Commands us to love God and love people as ourselves. John 15:12, 17 and 13:34
Love- agape is a self sacrificing type of love. Love that is found only in God and through God. The love of God. A Charity. A giving, benevolent love. God so love the world that He gave...
Let us love one another for love is from God and everyone who loves is born of God and knows, experience God. The one who does not love like this does not know God.
God gave us an example, a demonstration of this kind of love when He gave His Son to pay the penalty, punishment for the sins and mistakes of the entire world. If God loves like this and we call ourselves children, sons of God, then we ought to love like this as well. When we love we are doing what God does and He is in us and works through us. Because we know and believe that God loves us, we are part of God and His love for us and in us, can love like He does. When we find ourselves loving in this benevolent, self-giving way, it is prove of God living inside of us and of us living and existing in God. By this, love as a way of living, we become God's ambassador's, God's representation in this world. John 15:13
There is NO fear in love. Fear includes punishment, but love has NO punishment. Living in Love is better than prophecy, more excellent than any spiritual gift. It is a fruit of the indwelling Holy Spirit. Love is the vehicle, instrument, channel for Faith and without love faith is ineffective. There is NO slavery in Love but we willingly serve as slaves to one another because of love and in this we fulfill the entire law. Love never ends and will continue into eternity.
How do we love one another? By obeying God. Those who love and obey God also love those who are born of God. Jesus demonstratyed His love for God, the Father, through His obedience. John 15:10 and 14 : 31.
I John 2 through 5; Romans 8:28, 37-39; II Corinthians 5:14, I Corinthians 12:31 though 13:13; Ephesians 5: 1-2 and 5: 25; Romans 13:8; Galasians 5:6 and 22
God is Love John 4: 8
Jesus Commands us to love God and love people as ourselves. John 15:12, 17 and 13:34
Love- agape is a self sacrificing type of love. Love that is found only in God and through God. The love of God. A Charity. A giving, benevolent love. God so love the world that He gave...
Let us love one another for love is from God and everyone who loves is born of God and knows, experience God. The one who does not love like this does not know God.
God gave us an example, a demonstration of this kind of love when He gave His Son to pay the penalty, punishment for the sins and mistakes of the entire world. If God loves like this and we call ourselves children, sons of God, then we ought to love like this as well. When we love we are doing what God does and He is in us and works through us. Because we know and believe that God loves us, we are part of God and His love for us and in us, can love like He does. When we find ourselves loving in this benevolent, self-giving way, it is prove of God living inside of us and of us living and existing in God. By this, love as a way of living, we become God's ambassador's, God's representation in this world. John 15:13
There is NO fear in love. Fear includes punishment, but love has NO punishment. Living in Love is better than prophecy, more excellent than any spiritual gift. It is a fruit of the indwelling Holy Spirit. Love is the vehicle, instrument, channel for Faith and without love faith is ineffective. There is NO slavery in Love but we willingly serve as slaves to one another because of love and in this we fulfill the entire law. Love never ends and will continue into eternity.
How do we love one another? By obeying God. Those who love and obey God also love those who are born of God. Jesus demonstratyed His love for God, the Father, through His obedience. John 15:10 and 14 : 31.
I John 2 through 5; Romans 8:28, 37-39; II Corinthians 5:14, I Corinthians 12:31 though 13:13; Ephesians 5: 1-2 and 5: 25; Romans 13:8; Galasians 5:6 and 22
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