There is a saying that was made ever so popular and famous in the mid 80's through a song by Tina Turner and later as a movie in the early 90's that says "What's Love Got to Do with It?". Well I'm here to tell you that it has EVERYTHING to do with it! The Word of God says in John 13:34-35 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another. So it's not just the fact that we should love one another, but it is COMMANDED of God that we do so. God also says something very particular in this passage of scripture, and that is the fact that the world, or as He puts it "all men", will know that we are followers after Christ Jesus, or "disciples", by the love that we show to one another. In Ephesians 5, the "Blueprint" for our Christian walk as I call it, verse 2 says And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savour. This is not any ole type of love that He is talking about. This is that Agape love, that kind of love that would lay down his/her life for a friend.
We must ask ourselves are we really being examples of Christ through the way we treat one another? Do people really know by my actions toward my fellow man that Christ lives through me? With everything that is going on in the world today like mass killings, terrorism, suicides, abortion, rape, abuse, bullying, divorce, poverty, backbiting and scandal, and a host of so much more; there is an overwhelming need for LOVE. The only way to rid the world of such misery is to replace what we feed our mind, body, and soul through television, music, and pop culture with a heavy dose of the Word of God and by following His example of true Love.
About a week ago, the Holy Spirit woke me up out of my sleep at 4:04 AM and dropped a word in my spirit pertaining to love and it is this: Love is Living Our lives Virtuously Engaged. This simply means that we are to live our day to day lives with an exceptionally moral and upright involvement with one another. As I sat or actually at this point laid back in my bed and pondered what the Spirit of the Lord had given me; it was two words that actually stuck out in my mind, which were virtuously and engaged. So as I began to do some research on these two words I found that virtuously, an adverb of virtuous derived from the word virtue, is a word that as we all know exemplifies morality, moral excellence, uprightness, and that which conforms to ethical principles. However, as I began to get into what engaged meant, one small assessment of the word really caught my attention, and that was to attach and secure. The reason being is that this is how Jesus Christ essentially showed His love towards you and I. His sacrifice of dying on the cross for our sins made it possible for us to attach ourselves to His righteousness and by His blood and the grace of God secure our salvation for eternity!
So my question to my spirit filled believers is who's life have you changed through following the example of Jesus Christ? Who's life have you attached yourself to and shown through living a morally excellent life that they too can secure their future through the salvation of Jesus Christ? It is our duty in this Life of A Believer that we exemplify Christ in every aspect of our lives. Jesus Christ is Love, so let's start today and do what we have been commanded to do, and that is LOVE. Be Blessed!!!
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