LOVE AT ITS BEST: IT DOES INSTRUCTS AND DISCIPLINES!
You may not like and love this except you genuinely wants God’s WORD to define you in LIFE and GODLY LIVING.
For some, LOVE is about been spoken to softly, taken to the mall for shopping, being shown with gifts now and then, taken for holidays, spoilt with every good thing or goodies while their shortfalls in real-life failings are never mentioned or told to them, which would rather help them amend, braze up, mature and grow; they don’t realize the dangers of not wanting the truth, until they found themselves in the breakpoints of life deceptions because such LOVE was never MEASURED with the true reality of life – discipline and instructions to righteousness.
Herein are three hard TRUTH in the lots about genuine LOVE one needs to give thoughts towards. There are needful in order to help you, and or your friend, spouse, colleagues, and those you love and care about:
1.*** LOVE with ‘OPEN REBUKES’ helps to SAVE! – Proverbs 27:5-6.
“OPEN REBUKE is better than SECRET love. 6 FAITHFUL are the WOUNDS of a friend; but the KISSES of an ENEMY are deceitful” Proverbs 27:5-6.
- *** LOVE That ‘CHASTENS’ helps to AMEND – Hebrews 12:5-11.
“And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the CHASTENING of the Lord, nor faint when thou art REBUKED of him: 6 for WHOM THE LORD LOVETH HE CHASTENETH, AND SCOURGETH EVERY SON WHOM HE RECEIVETH. 7 If ye endure CHASTENING, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father CHASTENETH not? 8 But if ye be without CHASTISEMENT, whereof all are PARTAKERS, then are ye BASTARDS, and not sons. 9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which CORRECTED us, and we gave them REVERENCE: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? 10 For they verily for a few days CHASTENED us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be PARTAKERS of his holiness. 11 Now no CHASTENING for the present seemeth to be joyous, but GRIEVOUS: nevertheless afterward it YIELDETH the PEACEABLE FRUIT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS unto them which are EXERCISED thereby” Hebrews 12:5-11.
- *** Love that ‘OVERLOOKS/MAKES UP’ and helps to DELIVER from further sins! – 1 Peter 4:8/Proverbs 10:12.
“And above all things have fervent love among yourselves: for love shall COVER (OVERLOOK, MAKES UP) the multitude of sins” 1 Peter 4:8 (Emphasis Mine).
“Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love COVERETH (OVERLOOK) all sins” Proverbs 10:12 (Emphasis Mine).
God wants us to love while we enjoy His love shed and spread abroad in our inner hearts by the Holy Spirit of love. It’s by this love of God we are saved. And God has commended His Love towards us in Christ Jesus to enable us live in Christ Jesus stead by it.
SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT:
“And hope maketh not ashamed; because the LOVE OF GOD IS SHED ABROAD IN OUR HEARTS by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us . . . 8 But God COMMENDETH HIS LOVE TOWARD US, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us” Romans 5:5, 8.
Further Scriptural Reading Text: 1 Corinthians 13.
REV CHUKIE MORSI
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