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Sunday, March 22, 2009

LOVE Part 1


Many people even professed Christians use the word Love without really thinking about the meaning of the word and who is the word and what it represents, we shall do a three part series on Love as I am impressed to do this series because I learnt a lot from this study and it has helped me much and so I taught it wise to share what I was enlightened with, hope you gain enlightenment in this most serious matter as I did.


Love is the principle of God and God is Love, Love is who God is, it is His character.

Principle.
You may be saying "what does principle have to do with Love?", but a foundation is being laid and do not miss a single point of it my friend.
Principle is a truth or law that is used as a basis for a system of belief.

Belief.
Belief is trust or confidence.
Belief is Faith.

Faith.
Faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen.
Faith is complete trust in God without a doubt or wavering or being unstable.

How do we Procure Faith?
Romans 10:17 says "then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God".
Therefore, the statement which many people make "I fell in love at first sight" is false.
Love is the living active principle and you can not fall into Love.

God is love and as the Holy Spirit drives us to study the word of God, He leads us to cry out for that word to become our life, as the word is applied and lived out then love becomes the living active principle in our life.

Love will always be the divine principle of God, this cannot be changed because love is who God is. When this principle of love is in the mind from it stems emotion, we were all born with emotions of joy, anger, pain, sorrow, etc who governs the emotion is the main factor. The emotion does not govern love it stems from love and so love is the governing factor and dictates the emotion, please keep in mind that God is love.

Emotion.
Emotin is instinctive feeling as distinguished from reasoning.
Instinctive, is based on instinct rather than thought or training.

Because emotion is instinctive feeling and instinctive feeling is based on instinct and instinct is an inborn tendency to behave in a certain way, then many decisions we have made may be wrong. For one to make decisions based on love it should be based on the thought and training of the word of God.

When decisions are made based on the word of God the emotion will fall in line, because it is the Spirit of God making the decision, remember love is the living active principle of God, God is love and when decesion are made they are based on principle rather than feeling because God is in the heart.
If the word tell us to do something we will joyfully do it because the love of God is in the heart and we follow the principles of the word regardless how we may feel.

Stay tuned for Part Two.

1 comments:

Joanali Rock said...

I like the way that you began to break down the steps with this and I am very interested will ask questions after all parts are posted