A HALO OF LOVE
LOVE is a subject I can never cease to talk about since we were all created by love- the love of God. Then something tragic happened when Adam gave away his birthright to Satan then hate was born to mankind. Everyone knows love cannot coexist in an atmosphere of hate: strife, envy, jealousy, unrighteousness, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, disobedient to parents, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness, murder, sexual immorality, inventors of evil things, unforgiving, unmerciful, untrustworthy, unloving and this list is copious. I am pretty sure you can add to this list from your life's experiences. This is not God's way.
Love is not passive but is persistent and constant. This is how Jesus loved when He was here on Earth. He stated in John 15, "As the Father loved Me, I also loved you"....and lower down in the chapter He says, "This is My commandment that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friend." We can see here, Jesus made Love a commandment and throughout the Word of God there is a golden thread of love interweaved into every book of the Bible. So we don't get to choose who to love and who not to love by some preconceived notion about the person or some flawed concept of human love. Which by the way is not lasting.
Love is a choice- it is simple. Whether the situation warrants it or not you will never err on the side of love. Love never fails. First Corinthians chapter 13:1-8 is know as the love chapter and it is prayed at many weddings by the Christian circles. Paul says, " Love is large and incredibly patient.[f] Love is gentle and consistently kind to all. It refuses to be jealous[g] when blessing comes to someone else. Love does not brag about one’s achievements nor inflate its own importance. 5 Love does not traffic in shame and disrespect, nor selfishly seek its own honor. Love is not easily irritated[h] or quick to take offense.[i] 6 Love joyfully celebrates honesty[j] and finds no delight in what is wrong.[k] 7 Love is a safe place of shelter,[l] for it never stops believing the best for others.[m] Love never takes failure as defeat, for it never gives up." (TPT)
Another version says: "It is not conceited (arrogant and inflated with pride); it is not rude (unmannerly) and does not act unbecomingly. Love (God’s love in us) does not insist on its own rights or its own way, for it is not self-seeking; it is not touchy or fretful or resentful; it takes no account of the evil done to it [it pays no attention to a suffered wrong]". (AMPC).
These qualities of love abide in each child of God and is the main fruit of the Holy Spirit's living Presence in us. (See Galatians chapter 5:22 for the rest). Love is in the Christian's DNA; all we have to do is to yield to it by drawing close to God. It will be remiss of me if I don't speak about Love in lieu of healing and prosperity. Logically, if there is no expression of love in someone healing will not be sustained in that person neither would prosperity. Love plays a major part in our healing process. I have heard of this, that "Love contaminated is fear tolerated". If love is contaminated you will know by the condition of your soul. Your body will not thrive in an atmosphere of hate of any kind. Actually it makes the spirit of a man sick. It is a sign of a broken spirit. Healing always comes to the believer that is our right as children of God. Just get into an atmosphere of Love. Healing and prosperity will thrive and be accelerated.
Newton's third law says every force and action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Likewise hate will attract hateful things and will embody the host of hate. Hate will become dominant and it will produce sickness and disease and strife etc. Whereas Love is, in the scientific sense, is a motion. Love makes the world go around just as motion make the moon go around the earth's atmosphere. Love will bring joy, peace, harmony, homeostasis to the body and ultimately healing will occur in the host of love. Christ laid down His life for us on the Cross of Calvary to demonstrate to the world that the only way to salvation is through Him and through the Love of God. In First John chapter 4 He says, "Beloved, let us love one another for love is of God and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God for God is love.
Let us remember, who we are in Christ Jesus and whose we are and not fall prey to the lies of the Enemy, because his modus operandi is to kill, steal and destroy. He is a liar and the father of lies. We are loved by God and He is very passionate about us and He wants us to reciprocate that love to Him and to others. He wants the best for us and all we have to do is to believe in Him and His Son, Jesus Christ and have faith in His Word. Proverbs 4 says it this way,: "My son, give attention to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. Do not let them depart from your eyes, keep them in the midst of your heart. For they are life to those who find them, and health to all their flesh." Now that says it all. Let us endeavor to keep God's Word always before us and love others and have faith in Him.
I Love you
God Loves you
Shalom!
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