Christian Living
Price Of Love
How That Love Endure All Things
The Bible tells us that we are to pursue love and Paul admonishes us to love, that love we should first love ourselves. In I Corinthians 6:20, for we are brought with a price and Jesus paid it all. We are his and he is ours, his love was shown through shed blood. What price, are you willing to pay for those whom you loves? Will you deny them as some people has denied Christ, and he has bought us. The price Jesus has paid with his love gives us direct access to God, the father. Every believer with this privilege knows that it comes with responsibility, sacrifice, and intercessory prayer. We sacrifice our bodies, our praise to God, our substance, and our service. The Christian ought to pray on behalf of others. We should not be mal-adjusted, which means we are out of balance or out of step. What we need to be out of balance with is the world. Be out of step with what the world says about us. Love the world, but do not allow yourself to compromise and conform to the world. We are in the world, citizens of the world, but we are supposed to be different. The greatest enduring you can endow on anyone is love and in action, not just spoken.
Love endures all things. It is a price to pay when you love someone to Christ. Christ has already opened up the way. Sometimes the enemy creeps in unaware, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. Although; sometime loving people will cause you to turn away from them when you are afraid that something will come in and destroy.
I Corinthians 13:1-7, though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, and though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though; I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profits nothing. Charity suffers long and is king, charity envies not; charity vaunts not itself, is not puffed up, do not behave itself unseemly, seek not her own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil, rejoice not in iniquity, but rejoice in the truth, bears all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.
Romans 15:1-3, we that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let every one of us please his neighbor for his good to edification. For even Christ pleased not himself; but as it is written; the reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.
We that are strong in the faith are morally obligated to take the initiative and strive with the weak brother in those things that bothers him. We must forgo his liberty for the good of the weaker, so not to offend him or impair him in his spiritual life. As we must be prayerful and careful not to turn them away from the very thing they need and that’s Jesus Christ who has already took our sins upon him.
Strong means having great physical strength, in sound health, economically or financially sound, having force of character, will, morality, or intelligence; manifesting ability or achievement in a specified fold, capable of enduring. Infirmities mean a lack of power, disability, bodily debilitation, frailty, or moral weakness.
We have to think of others more than ourselves. If it offends in one way or the other then we should not do it, especially if it means a soul will be spared. The more you study, and live the word, that stronger in Christ you will become. We are obligated to carry the torch sometime to cover what ever is bothersome to our sisters and brothers. This means that if your brother cannot eat pork, then do not eat it in front of him.
I Thessolonians 5:14, now, we exhort you brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.
Ephesians 5:1 says we should be followers of God as dear children. I Peter 1:14-15, as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lust in your ignorance being strong, enduring love, paying the price; being holy as he that hath called you is holy. We have to even be strong in our conversations. When we are strong, you come to a point of stop acting like a child. Act is the process of doing or performing something, an action, something lone or performed, a deed, an enactment, edit, or decree; a format written record, a major division of a play. To behave like, or pose as, operate or function in a certain way, act accordingly, produce an effect upon, misbehave, or malfunction. A child is any person between birth and puberty, an infant, a baby, one who is childish or immature, a son, or daughter, an offspring, member of a tribe, descendant the figurative offspring of anything. Like means to find pleasant, enjoy. To want, wish or prefer. To feel toward, to view, to regard, to feel an attraction to someone or something, tenderness or affection for, be fond of, to agree with, suit or please. Possess the characteristics of, resembling closely, similar to, appropriateness to something specified.
Dearly beloved, I admonish you as a fellow Christian to pay the price of love. As children of God, we need to know that it is high time that we act like a child of God and do the will of God. God knows what his will and purpose for us is and perform the deeds God has set forth a lifestyle in his word that will bring us to his divine purpose for our lives and stay in that purpose and produce fruits in us. We should act like Christ. Christ did not please himself, but paid the price of love, he endured the cross for us. He was strong and stayed right there.
The characteristics of Christ that we possess after God’s own image; should in us mirror him. We have to pay the price of sacrifice also to obtain and maintain these characteristics of God. God is love and if you do not love, you are none of his. How can you possess God’s love and you have no knowledge or understanding of what it is about. God hates sin, so he cannot sin, so we should not habitually sin either. The more you learn of God; the price to pay is that you want to please God, so we become sin less. We can only act like something we know about.
God is good and if we take God out of good all we have left is O, and as children; our life is more full of O’s than God. Pay the price and get the O’s out. Be strong, and endure; all that life throws your way. You cannot serve God all messed up. A child cannot learn well if his mind his mind is messed up and his understanding is bad.
What price are you willing to pay for love? Love endures all things, are you strong enough to clean up your own house? As we grow from infancy in Christ to full maturity there are things we must throw away, touch or partake of. Our house that we must clean is the house of our body, mind, will and emotions. Be the children of righteousness; forsake the old habits. Be a distinction. As all things become new in you, do not go back to old behavior patterns, be transformed and live a life of purity, holiness, and love. A child learns these things as they grow in maturity, stage by stage, every step takes us to a higher level of grace, and grace teaches us to live as such in this present world. Do not be lured back, keep a difference between clean and unclean.
As a child, you do things to please your parents and likewise you please God by your righteousness. Your righteousness brings you to holiness and holiness brings you before God. We should grow to the point of having a relentless pursuit after the heart of God, but what price of love are you willing to pay. Just as your mind grows with the things of growing up, so do the mind of Christ grow as you enter into the things of God.
Now God in his infinite power made man, put himself into man through his spirit, and gave man parts of himself. Man has a mind full of God and God a mind full of man. As God loves us so much, paid a price for love, he plants himself deep down within us and he is for us, but we must choose to be with him. Children serve whom they will obey, and if God has paid the price of love for us, then we should love God, and then we will obey.
A love after God will endure whatever comes or whatever goes. Be like the child after God’s own heart, obey, and live.
If you love God, you will obey
If you obey, you will keep his commandments
If you keep his commandments, then you will live for him
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