Here’s why loving right matters the most and why we keep in step with the Spirit in the day to day of everyday.
Loving right matters the most. We know what real love is because Jesus gave up his life for us. So we also ought to give up our lives for our brothers and sisters. 1 John 3:16
Life is short. Forever is real. Loving right matters the most.
What is loving right?
John tells us what real love is. In 1 John 4:7-19 he writes:
“Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love. God showed how much he loved us by sending his one and only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him.
This is real love—not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins. Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other. No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love is brought to full expression in us. And God has given us his Spirit as proof that we live in him and he in us.
Furthermore, we have seen with our own eyes and now testify that the Father sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. All who declare that Jesus is the Son of God have God living in them, and they live in God. We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in his love. God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them. And as we live in God, our love grows more perfect.
So we will not be afraid on the day of judgment, but we can face him with confidence because we live like Jesus here in this world. Such love has no fear, because perfect love expels all fear. If we are afraid, it is for fear of punishment, and this shows that we have not fully experienced his perfect love. We love each other because he loved us first.” 1 John 4:7-19 NLT
He goes on to say in 2 John 6 “And this is love-that we walk according to his commands”
Loving right matters the most - so keep in step with the Spirit in the day to day of everyday
Perfect Love
Let me tell you what I mean. John has told us that perfect love is love that comes from God and goes through us to others.
Perfect love is love that is complete. We get it from God and we give it to others. It’s that kind of love that casts out fear.
We need to understand we can’t love others the way God wants us to until we experience His love to us. We’ll grow tired in doing good if we try to do it on our own.
Do you want to see what I mean?
How do we love others?
1 Corinthians 13:4-7
Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. Love is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
That kind of love is agapeo love. Agapeo love is the decision to love. It means we don’t do it when we feel like it, we do it when we decide to do it. But that’s about all that depends on us.
How do you love everybody always like that?
How can we be patient and kind and not jealous or boastful or proud or rude or demand our own way or not be irritable or keep records of wrong, how to we never give up never lose faith, always be hopeful and endure every circumstance?
We only can with the help of Holy Spirit.
God helps us to love right
By his divine power, God has given us everything we need for living a godly life. 2 Peter 1:3
People ask, Do I need the Holy Spirit to get to heaven? You need Holy Spirit to go to Walmart.
Loving right matters the most - so keep in step with the Spirit in the day to day of everyday
LIFE HACK
Erin Rollenhagen says whenever someone comes to complain about something to you tell yourself they are saying to themselves “I feel insecure over ____________ in my life”
What if you don’t know they blank? Ask Holy Spirit:
1. What are they insecure about?
2. How do I show them your love?
It deactivates confrontation and activates compassion. Love is patient and kind, it doesn’t demand it’s own way. Love is not irritable.
Do not argue with people who are are argumentative.
Loving right matters the most - so keep in step with the Spirit in the day to day of everyday
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