TRUE LOVE
Dr. Lewis Gregory
Love is a word commonly used to describe how we humans feel about all sorts of things. Today love is more of a generic term without any specific relevance. Suffice it to say that the word love has lost it’s meaning and it’s significance. There is only one true love and it comes from God alone. God’s kind of love is self-denying, self-sacrificing, and self-giving. It is entirely different from the so-called love being proclaimed today.
So what is true love like? God so loved the people of the world that He gave…. He made the ultimate sacrifice when He denied Himself and gave the greatest gift of all: the Son of His love Jesus Christ. The supreme expression of God’s love is the cross of Christ. This selfless act is the pinnacle of God’s love. To thoroughly examine the pinnacle of God’s love—as it is expressed through the cross—is to look into the very core of God’s being. The cross is actually God laying His heart bare before the entire world. God the Father chose to communicate His love to us in the most graphic manner possible, through the excruciatingly painful death of His beloved Son upon the cross. After such a dramatic demonstration, there should be no doubt that God’s nature is love. Truly, “God is love” (1 John 4:8).
In light of my own personal pilgrimage that is riddled with sin and shame, I stand in awe of God’s amazing love. Yet, oh—how I thank God for such amazing love that brought about so great salvation, both yours and mine! You see it was God’s love that made it possible for us to be free from our past and enjoy Him forever. Just think—Christ died for you and me!
Pause for a moment to reflect upon Jesus Christ taking your place, and dying for your sins. Consider the implications of this. Would you want to relive all the horrible, sinful events of your past? Most certainly not! Yet that is exactly what Christ did for you upon the cross.
He felt your pain, your sin, your suffering, and your shame. He became you in every respect, and agonized through every wretched detail of your life. Now, that is truly amazing grace, and it’s motivated by pure, unconditional love. This calls for a celebration of thanksgiving! Please join me in thanking God for the cross, and the love that compelled Christ to go there. Always remember that God loves you very, very much, and the cross proves it.
Such true love—selfless love—is also possible in your life. But it can only occur as you allow the Holy Spirit to take complete control of you and produce the fruit of the Spirit of God through your life. Then you’ll have true love, and your actions will prove it!
Adapted from Introducing The New You.
To read more… http://www.sourceministries.net/go/resources/the-new-you/
May 6th, 2011 at 3:33 am
Dear servants of God,
Greetings in the precious name of Jesus Christ. It’s a nice to set you through this because its God will to be done. We should never forget that we are placed on trial in this world to determine own fitness for the future life for the Christians stewardship the covenant say that if God will be with me and will give me bread to eat and railment to put on then the lord will be my God and I shall return to Him tithe and give offspring. Since I went over your web- site I am in prayer for you always and encourage you to continue your work for the kingdom.
Some days are hard and overwhelming but the lord is in control and will always work for His glory and our greater good. Keep proclaiming the cross and resurrection to those who lost for off and don’t water down the message. Give he people the hard truth that Jesus is the only way the truth and the life and that no man can come to God except through the risen Christ. We need to praise God more for His goodness and for His wonderful works for the children of men. Our devotion exercise should not consist wholly in asking and receiving lets be out always thinking of our wants and never of the benefits we receive we are the constant recipient of Gods mercies and yet out little gratitude we express how little we praise him for he has done to us. God desired to head us to set us free but since recognizes an entire transformation are wins of our on nature we must yield our levels wholly to him.
I am pastor Maroro Benard from Kenya having blessed with small fellowship that came as a result of Bible studies; I do request to allow us to be partner with you. The church is independent one since we take out Sunday services under grass thatched house through affiliation. We can support the word of God worldwide so that it can reach and save the lost sheep. Our mission is to spread and preach the word of God to save the lost souls in Kenya and the world at large, by bearing more laborers in His kingdom and planting more village branch church more .To serve in the living God to take care for the orphans in the community.
On your prayer for us we to plant our churches here in Kisii -Kenya , to be blessed with Holly bibles with community die orphans Christians school center.God has chosen you to be His vessel to teach other the truth of Christ to brothers and sisters , who are widows ,widowers,single parents and total orphans here in Kenya .In God’s Grace praise God for his work that He has planted ,His uncle shepherd fed the flock God’s truth .Greet all my Brothers and sisters In Jesus Christ tell them God loves us.So we are looking forward for your consideration be Christ centered ,Gospel driven , Holly spirit empowered servants of the living God –Amen
Yours in Christ Jesus by His grace and peacekeepers .
PASTOR MARORO BERNAD.