Study 1 Day 3 God’s Love For Us and Ours For Him
Gods love for us and ours for Him Part 3 5-14-04
Have you ever looked at 1 Corinthians 13 as how God loves us and how we can love Him back in our day to day lives?
Looking through the chapter you see how when you do things for the Lord if they are without love they are of little value other than you felt good about yourself and gave your self a pat on the back.
Our love for the Lord endures long but not as long as He has loved us.
Our love for the Lord teaches us to be patient and kind while waiting on Him, while He has the utmost patience and kindness for us while we do what we want till we turn to Him.
Loving others in life is not to be envious nor boil over in jealousy. That can be tough in light of the fact our flesh gets in the way. Our love can be conditional on if we feel the same amount of love back.
Our love of the Lord does not have us boasting as to what we are or can do in the Lord, or seeking glory for ourselves but for the Lord and is not proud.
Its so easy to get caught up in what we are doing for the Lord that it becomes a matter of me, I and its because of the gifts the Lord has given us that we can give Him the glory.
Love is not rude and does not act unbecomingly. This is convicting when we are angry or just not caring of someone that we seek to hurt them or act unbecomingly to the unlovely. Jesus said “Do so unto the least of one of these, so you do unto Me”. A good point I have to remember.
God’s love in us does not insist on its own rights or its own way. This is true to us working with others that we don’t want the situation to be all about us. The greatest glory goes to God when we seek to just accomplish His will in any given situation.
God’s love in us is not self-seeking, touchy, fretful or resentful. That can be hard especially when you are tired, sick, or feeling touchy because you don’t feel appreciated. While it’s a blessing to feel appreciated its not what should have value in how we love others, as how often to we appreciate all the Lord has done for us? Tough thinking about how very much He has blessed us and its gone un-noticed til later down the road.
God’s love in us does not take account of evil done to us. What a tough thing when you look at how you have been wronged by this person or that person in your daily lives, especially from the ones you love the most. Even from the ones that have just been hurtful to you with no love given. Again, take a look at how the Lord loved us when we were yet sinning with out Jesus Christ as our personal Savior. To forgive when evil has been done to us is so hard because our flesh screams out vengeance! In watching the Passion of the Christ I can honestly say if anyone in all time had a reason to scream not fair it was Jesus. A friend of mine said “if life were fair we would all be going to hell with satan”. What an apt way to put it. Jesus knew He was having evil done to Him for us and all people, no matter how many centuries have gone by. The bible tells us we were known before we were in our mother’s womb.
God’s love in us does not rejoice at injustice and unrighteousness, but when right and truth prevail. You think back to when you were a child and your brother or sister who could annoy you beyond all belief got a spanking or in trouble you rejoiced. It wasn’t right and we knew it but we felt justice being served not for what they were in trouble for but what we felt had been done to us. When you think on it, if our love is Godly, we know we didn’t have all our sin dealt with as severely as it could have been because of Jesus. To rejoice even when someone does us wrong that they “get what they got coming to them” is to forget what we have been forgiven of ourselves.
Love bears up under anything and everything that comes. How true. Our love of God grows stronger in the hard times because we know Him and seek Him to grow close to Him because He is right there by our side in times even best friends can not always understand. What a blessing!
Love is ever ready to believe the best of every person, its hopes are fadeless under all circumstances and it endures everything without weakening. How true! No one wants to believe family members are beyond hope, despite how they are leading their lives, it hopes eternal for the salvation of all we know to come to a saving knowledge of Christ. It endures despite how some would try to demean or diminish your love of them.
Love never fails. Despite all the sins the Lord has seen, despite all you or I have ever done, all He asks is of us to come back to Him, repent and seek Him, His word. He is the Father who is standing with open arms ready to party when we come back despite years of prodigal living.
And so faith, hope, love abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.
love
alicia
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