I am so humbled by this. The miracle I hinted at happening four times before? Happened again just yesterday. Praise God.
What can a Christian do besides witness, bring people to church, pray, and maybe (just maybe, haha) read the bible?
As believers whether Gentiles (that is most of us. I’m a part of that group) or ones who were from the nationality of Judaism to realize that Christ exists for real, the bible describes a lot of times that we must be showing love to one another (and the world around us).
To be love to each other in John 15:12 “This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.” 1 John 4:16 “And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.”
I wanted to share three verses but looked up these ones. They will be mentioned.
We might learn that in the bible the greatest commandment is love. God is love! We should base all things we do if we want to draw people to church or to listen the word on love.
Because:
Let all that you do be done with love. 1 Corinthians 16:14
We must be like Christ, one who will show others love no matter what. We must honor Him in all things that we do also.
In 1 Corinthians 13, it talks a lot about love as well. It seems like a love chapter, haha. Here’s the next important verse I found:
(Love) bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 1 Corinthians 13:7
It mentions the subject (what this article here is about) in the beginning and then also in verse 4 preceding this verse. I had to add context since it was not in the verse itself.
So if love endures all things, what might that say about our lives? Being love isn’t easy. Also in fact, doing acts for love is not what we might think either. If we have to be tough on say a brother that is not living right in the Lord, that won’t feel like love. If we confront someone about their sin, that is not going to be like “easy” love.
Sometimes we feel like we are tested when showing this love. But in all things God does good though it is difficult in circumstances.
Yet through it all He loves all of us in many ways. If we follow Him fully He will encourage us to show that He loves us. It is amazing just how sweet it is to follow Him in our hearts as passionately as possible!
And we can always be glorified in this life by His love and becoming more and more like Him every day.
We can also never say we love Christ or God more than He does us. As the word says:
We love Him because he first loved us. 1 John 4:19
He loved us first. We were loved before we were born. God’s love is amazing, and if you follow Him with all your heart you will see that love in your life, through living in the spirit, and for the people who you care about!
God loves you.