What will endure when all else fails? What covers all wrong doing and sin? What casts out all fear?.........LOVE. God's love. True love. Not romantic love, or something that comes from human flesh; I am talking about Love that comes from above. It is supernatural...Jesus displayed this love when he came to earth as a man, when he touched and healed the masses, when he died on the cross for a world that for the most part was rejecting him, when he asked the Father to forgive those who were crucifying him, when he told the women at his empty tomb to "But be going; tell the disciples and Peter, He goes before you into Galilee; you will see Him there, [just] as He told you." Here he personally mentions Peter, the disciple who had denied him not three days earlier. He showed his love when he sent the Holy Spirit to teach, guide, comfort and empower us.
God is love. 1 John 4:8 says "Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. Love is not something you can muster up with your own strength, wisdom or feelings. It comes from above and will consume you, heal you, and flow out of you. It is love that is given freely, just for the sake of giving, asking nothing in return. It is this love we must be filled with in these evil days.
The bible says in Matthew 24:12-13, "Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, but he who stands firm to the end will be saved."
We must be filled with the love of God. Love covers a multitude of sin.
In the last days as evil increases and according to 2 Timothy 3:2-4, "People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God--". Notice the phrase "without love" in the scripture above.
This love, the love that comes from God, is patient, is kind, it does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. (1 Cor. 13)
I don't know about you, but when I read this, I think there is no way I can do this. And I am right. I....cannot do it on my own, but with God all things are possible. He can fill a vessel, me, you, with His love and change the world, one person at a time. We must be filled with his love and cling to our Savior, it is our only hope!
God bless you, fill you, and keep you until his coming!
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