The Father’s Heart – LOVE AT ITS BEST: When You Feed The Hungry, Cloth The Naked And Visit The Sick!
“If anyone thinks himself to be religious [scrupulously observant of the rituals of his faith] and does not control his tongue but deludes his own heart, this person’s religion is worthless (futile, barren). [27] PURE and UNBLEMISHED religion [as it is expressed in outward acts] in the SIGHT of our God and Father is this: to VISIT and LOOK after the FATHERLESS and the WIDOWS in their distress, and to KEEP ONESELF uncontaminated by the [secular] world” James 1:26-27/Amplified.
If there’s anything from Father God for us today, it should be that all should be saved and come to the knowledge of salvation. Meaning, all men, should be able to access His lavishly given LOVE that’s shared and endowed in our human hearts by the indwelling Holy Spirit of grace; and this God’s LOVE is readily available for all humanity, and is irrespective and without sentiments, prejudice and dissimulation. And one good way of expressing such love of unconditional, intentional and pragmatic LOVE of God in Christ Jesus, as depicted in the Father’s Heart – LOVE AT ITS BEST, it’s when you FEED the Hungry, CLOTH the Naked and VISIT The Sick, and such like, in their vulnerable state of great need [Matthew 25:31-46]. Take a step today and make a difference with the received LOVE of God in your human spirit, to enrich them with the Father God hearts of love in the grace.
“Such hope [in God’s promises] never disappoints us, because God’s LOVE has been ABUNDANTLY POURED OUT WITHIN OUR HEARTS through the Holy Spirit who was GIVEN to us . . . [8] But God clearly SHOWS and PROVES His own LOVE for us, by the fact that while we were STILL SINNERS, Christ DIED for us” Romans 5:5, 8.
“What doth it profits my brethren, though a man say he hath FAITH, and have not WORKS? CAN FAITH SAVE HIM? 15 If a brother or sister be NAKED, and DESTITUTE of DAILY food, 16 and one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are NEEDFUL to the body; WHAT DOTH IT PROFIT? 17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone” James 2:14-17.
Therefore, know that God’s LOVE in us in Christ Jesus, it’s at its BEST when we intentionally express its essence through us for the good and goodness of others in the light of the scriptures.
Be blessed in the grace. Amen.
SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT:
“What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath FAITH, and have not WORKS? CAN FAITH SAVE HIM? 15 If a brother or sister be NAKED, and DESTITUTE of DAILY food, 16 and one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are NEEDFUL to the body; WHAT DOTH IT PROFIT? 17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone” James 2:14-17.
“When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory. 32 All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats. 33 And He will set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left. 34 Then the King will say to those on His right hand, ‘Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: 35 for I was HUNGRY and you gave Me FOOD; I was THIRSTY and you gave Me DRINK; I was a STRANGER and you TOOK Me in; 36 I was NAKED and you CLOTHED Me; I was SICK and you VISITED Me; I was in PRISON and you CAME to Me.’ 37 “Then the righteous will answer Him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see You HUNGRY and FEED You, or THIRSTY and give You DRINK? 38 When did we see You a STRANGER and take You in, or NAKED and CLOTHE You? 39 Or when did we see You SICK, or in PRISON, and COME to You?’ 40 And the King will answer and say to them, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.’ 41 “Then He will also say to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels: 42 for I was hungry and you gave Me no food; I was thirsty and you gave Me no drink; 43 I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, NAKED and you did not CLOTHE Me, SICK and in PRISON and you did not VISIT Me.’ 44 “Then they also will answer Him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a STRANGER OR NAKED OR SICK OR IN PRISON, AND DID NOT MINISTER TO YOU?’ 45 Then He will answer them, saying, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.’ 46 And these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life” Matthew 25:31-46.
“If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain. 27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To VISIT THE FATHERLESS AND WIDOWS IN THEIR AFFLICTION, and to keep himself unspotted from the world” James 1:26-27.
REV. CHUKIE MORSI