Encouragement
(written by Bob B.,12-24-02)
Love comes from God, who is not only holy but also truth and wisdom. So then love is not only pure but since its source is the Creator, love comes from wisdom and is not shallow and superficial but profound, even piercing.
Since love is of God, who is the Creator, love is creative. Since it is creative it goes beyond doing things well, it does things beautifully. This is so since it also comes from truth and wisdom which is seen in the law of God and reflects His truth and wisdom. What I realize, though, is that love cannot come from the letter of the law but its spirit. Since it is from the spirit it goes beyond doing things well. It does as I stated earlier, beautifully. It does what Christ would do.
As said before love from truth and wisdom is creative. Since it is creative it is therefore redemptive-just like its source. Love cleanses and makes new again. It brings in good where there never was good before. This can only be true if God is true. Agape love then bears witness to the existence of the biblical God.
Since this kind of love is from truth and wisdom, love is not sentimental. Does not live by the feeling but the truth. There are too many times that truth and wisdom stand in contradiction to what is sentimental. So Agape love will be opposed to the sentimental
I am overwhelmed when I realize this. Then it hits me that this is the love that is not only given to me but through me. This love given through the Holy Spirit’s outpouring. But it is love and God is love. I do not have a part of God but instead I have all of God. God is also a person and one cannot have a part of a Person in their life.
Therefore I have all the love of God-not only for me but to pour out to others. Love is not just for me.
Since God is pure so is love. Love in its purity, then, does not settle with giving good. It, instead, gives the best. Anything less is impure.
Since I am impure apart from the Lord I see my desperate need for Him to have this love in me. Yet because I am impure I cannot love naturally. But if I surrender to the Lord His love runs through to cleanse me and on to others. Here is where His love comes in to make me a clean vessel for Him to love others through me.
In surrender I become a vessel which is only a reservoir or a channel. The worst thing a channel can do is get in the way of its own reserve. Such hindrances can only be avoided if the vessel stays out of the way of the love of God. This vessel must then die to self. To surrender is to stay out of His way and to be content with being His vessel.
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