Taking STOCK on God’s WORD In LOVE: LOVING to DO God’s WORD in LOVE – And Not As A BURDEN – Makes All The Difference!
Do you always take stock on God’s WORD? and do it in LOVE? Yea. GREAT. However it’s summed up in this – LOVING to DO God’s WORD of commands in LOVE is a hallmark of doing the WORD effortlessly, selflessly and without sweat and guilt; more so, considering always that God’s WORD, is not IRKSOME, BURDENSOME, TASKMASTER, TROUBLESOME, HARD and DIFFICULT to practice when in a loving approach. For DOING God’s WORD in LOVE makes all the difference in LIFE and GODLY LIVING.
It must be noted that God is not a taskmaster, hence His commands are not an advice, they are genuine, faithful, true, sure, real and empowering to help and give leverage in living and doing life in all circumstances.
A WILLING and OBEDIENT hearts of LOVE towards God’s WORD, it’s all it takes and when not taken with DUTY hearts as if God is a TASKMASTER; and knowing that God have not TASKED you to tempt you with an obligation He knows it’s impossible for you and any to do; and He’s not out to see you fail, in order that He might punish you to suit Himself well and good.
Therefore, taking STOCK on God’s WORD in LOVE, and LOVING to DO God’s WORD in LOVE – should not be as a BURDEN – for that MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE in doing LIFE and living GODLY.
SELAH – PAUSE AND THINK.
SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT:
“By this we know that we LOVE the children of God, when we LOVE God and keep His commandments. 3 For this is the LOVE of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not BURDENSOME” 1 John 5:2-3.
“If ye be WILLING and OBEDIENT, ye shall eat the good of the land” Isaiah 1:19.
“There hath no TEMPTATION taken you but such as is common to man: but God is FAITHFUL, who will not SUFFER (ALLOW) you to be TEMPTED above that ye are able; but will with the TEMPTATION also MAKE A WAY TO ESCAPE, that ye may be ABLE to bear it” 1 Corinthians 10:13 (Emphasis Mine).
“Let no man SAY when he is TEMPTED, I am TEMPTED of God: for God CANNOT be TEMPTED with evil, neither TEMPTETH he any man: 14 but every man is TEMPTED, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed” James 1:13-14.
“Some indeed PREACH Christ even of ENVY and STRIFE; and some also of GOOD WILL: 16 the one PREACH Christ of CONTENTION, not SINCERELY, supposing to add AFFLICTION to my bonds: 17 but the other of LOVE, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel. 18 What then? NOTWITHSTANDING, every way, whether in PRETENCE, or in TRUTH, Christ is PREACHED; and I therein do REJOICE, yea, and will REJOICE” Philippians 1:15-18.
“Though I SPEAK WITH THE TONGUES of MEN and of ANGELS, but HAVE NOT LOVE, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2 And though I have the GIFT OF PROPHECY, and UNDERSTAND ALL MYSTERIES and ALL KNOWLEDGE, and though I have ALL FAITH, so that I could remove mountains, but HAVE NOT LOVE, I am nothing. 3 And though I BESTOW ALL MY GOODS TO FEED THE POOR, and though I give my body to be burned, BUT HAVE NOT LOVE, IT PROFITS ME NOTHING . . .” 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 NKJV.
“LOVE has been PERFECTED among us in this: that we may have BOLDNESS in the day of judgment; BECAUSE AS HE IS, SO ARE WE IN THIS WORLD. 18 There is NO FEAR IN LOVE; but PERFECT LOVE CASTS OUT FEAR, because FEAR involves TORMENT. But he who FEARS has not been MADE PERFECT IN LOVE” 1 John 4:17-18.
“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 . . .But God COMMENDETH HIS LOVE toward us, in that, while we were YET SINNERS, Christ DIED for us” Romans 5:5, 8.
REV CHUKIE MORSI