CHRISTIAN LOVE – “EVIL OF INJUSTICE” AND “TRUTH”
February 27, 2025FINANCIAL LESSONS MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME
March 1, 2025Love, as the Bible defines, is a difficult path to walk upon. It is difficult, because, the Biblical love puts the “other person” as the centre of its focus, and not the self. Biblical love then proceeds to build an entire framework of how it desires to operate, starting with the “other” person, and putting the “self” last, and also the least important, in the entire list.
The LORD turns the “self” and its interests on its head, and makes it turn upside-down. In loving others is our good and our blessing, becomes the resonating theme of Christian love, and the life it is called to live. Much more than that, when we love others, as the LORD wants us to, we are honouring God, and worshipping Him truly. God simply dismantles, and destroys, everything, that the sinful fallen human nature wants, and desires, through His divine love.
Today, is the last of our meditations on godly love. Let us look at 1 Corinthians 13:4-7, and see, what can it teach us, about love.
– “4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.” – 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
Verse seven is our focus for today’s meditation, which is a summing up of what the LORD, through the Apostle Paul, was writing to the Christians at Corinth, and even to us today.
– “LOVE…bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”
Please note the point – Love Bears, Believes, Hopes and Endures “ALL THINGS” – yes “ALL THINGS!” It is not a few things; not many things; not most things. Nay, Love Bears, Believes, Hopes and Endures “ALL THINGS.”
– “We might have hoped Paul would have chosen any phrase but this! All things covers everything! We can all bear some things, we can all believe some things, we can all hope some things, and we can all endure some things. But God calls us farther and deeper into love for Him, for one another, and for a perishing world.” – Enduring Word Commentary
The love to which the LORD is calling us, is a test of who we actually are. Whether we are truly Christians or not, is dependent not on what we confess, but on how we love “others” and how we conduct ourselves, in relation to others. This is love. This is being a Christian. This is being a follower of the LORD Jesus Christ. This is loving God. This is worshipping God. This is living for our God. This is proclaiming to the world, who we are. What about us this morning? Can such love be found in us, that Bears, Believes, Hopes and Endures “ALL THINGS?” “IF OUR LOVE FOR GOD IS TRUE…THEN WE WILL…”
– “Love does not ask to have an easy life of it: self-love makes that her aim. Love denies herself, sacrifices herself, that she may win victories for God, and hers shall be no tinsel crown.” – Charles H. Spurgeon
Let us earnestly seek the LORD, to help us love, and live like Him…Jesus Christ of Nazareth, our Redeemer and our Master. Even so, the LORD help us.
