Good morning all!
Father, may we fully trust in Your love through every season we face. To know that Your goodness is perfect, to believe You know what’s best even when we can’t see it. Help us to believe, and when we drift Lord pull us close, if we fall lift us up and when we’re confused heal us, Amen.
Romans 13
10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love [is] the fulfilling of the law.
Love will NOT hurt people, and this kind of love fulfills the requirements of ALL God’s law.
11 And that, knowing the time, that now [it is] high time to awake out of sleep: for now [is] our salvation nearer than when we believed.
The time is NOW, what are you waiting for? Wake up, today is the day of your salvation Your savior lives within.
12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
Our night season of ignorance is far gone; salvation is now in your hand. So remove your dark deeds like old clothes, and put on the shining armor of right living.
13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
Let us live this life honestly as Christ has shown, NOT making a scene, NOT being lazy and selfish, NOT arguing and being defensive.
14 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to [fulfil] the lusts [thereof].
Instead, let your presence be a representation of the Lord Jesus Christ. And don’t let yourself think about ways to indulge your selfish desires.
Bottom line
True love will go to work, never complain and never get tired, you know why? The POWER of love! True love will give you all the strength you need to carry out any task no matter how big and no matter how long it takes, this is LOVE! This is the message to the church in Rome; they were fighting among themselves because they believed one was better than the other.
[Act 18:2 KJV] 2 And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:). The Jews were NOTwelcome in Rome even though they both believed in Jesus Christ. Paul is basically telling them to WAKE UP and smell the coffee; he was well versed given he was a Roman citizen himself so why would they reject one another? Simple, the Jews thought they were better than the Romans and vice versa. This is the darkness Pual is speaking about; he tells us to cast off that kind of thinking. Can someone point me to verse that declares He is the God of better than?
[Act 10:34 NLT] 34 Then Peter replied, “I see very clearly that God shows no favoritism. Now why did God tell Peter He doesn’t view one better than the other? Peter was doing the opposite; he would eat with the Jews but NOT the gentiles. This is what religion does, it moves the goal post, but nobody checked with the OWNER of the field…He didn’t move the goal post…the only goal that matters to God is LOVE!!! Nothing can light up a day better than when we show love to a person and nothing can turn a day dark faster than when we reject someone. Now just like the Romans we have our lists of reasons why we reject a person, we get offended by what others say or do. Why do you think he tells you to put on the armour of light? The light you emit is your ARMOUR it protects you from whatever might offend you, our ability to love is stronger than their ability to hurt, follow? Paul had a similar message to the church of Ephesus, they believed they were elitist. What was his message?
[Eph 4:2 NLT] Always be humble and gentle. Be patient with each other, making allowance for each other’s faults because of your love. Our love should make allowance for each other’s faults, shortcomings, sin, peccadillos, quirks, and so on, ALWAYS being humble and gentle. Kind of hard to reject people and still remain humble and gentle, the only reason we rejected them in the first place is we made NO allowance for them. Do you remember the complaint God had with the church of Ephesus?
[Rev 2:4 NLT] 4 “But I have this complaint against you. You don’t love me or each other as you did at first! Notice, the church claimed to love God but they did NOT love others, God says when you don’t love people you don’t love me…this is my complaint. So what happened to Ephesus? [Rev 2:5 NLT] 5 Look how far you have fallen! Turn back to me and do the works you did at first. If you don’t repent, I will come and remove your lampstand from its place among the churches. They have FALLEN from God’s grace and if they don’t love FIRST, He will remove their light, and they will live in darkness…ignorance. So PUT on Christ and make NO provision…NO excuse, we are of the DAY, and we know salvation gives us the strength to LOVE!!!
Point to Ponder
What day is today? [1Th 5:5 KJV] 5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Leave NO room for darkness in this life for WE are children of the DAY so shine!
Let’s all live as children of the DAY In Him, Phil
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