IT IS UTTERLY IMPOSSIBLE FOR LOVE TO BE DEFEATED. What is love? In all of God’s creation, one thing can absolutely never be defeated, and that is Love. Though it has been trivialized, mocked, perverted, ignored, and trampled on, True Love will eventually change the whole order and fabric of creation. It is impossible for this not to happen. GOD IS LOVE, and God will never be defeated. LOVE CANNOT FAIL, but it will vanquish every foe that is set against it, of which forgiveness, bitterness, hatred and pride are a part. These things will cease absolutely one day. But we can hasten that day and speed it’s coming, by applying the parameters of love to our lives now. If we do this, we wage spiritual war with the most powerful (and essentially only) weapon of spiritual warfare that there is. We all love to talk about love in the abstract, but the depth of our commitment to it is revealed in our willingness and ability to forgive. IT IS THE TRUE MEASURE OF WHAT SORT OF WARRIOR WE REALLY ARE, IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD. No matter what accusations the Enemy may make, forgiveness drowns them in the blood of Jesus, and turns the bullets of his words into butterflies. That is why forgiveness and walking in love cannot be mere options for the Christian. Either we do it, or we don’t. If we don’t, WE DECEIVE OURSELVES THAT WE ARE CHRIST’S FOLLOWERS. If we want to follow Jesus then we must walk where He walked. We must forgive as He forgives and love as He loves. The simplicity of this gospel is the only thing that can and will transform us–and the world! WE’VE ALL HEARD THESE WORDS, BUT LET’S READ THEM AGAIN FROM THE AMPLIFIED BIBLE: Love endures long and is patient and kind; love never is envious nor boils over with jealousy; it is not boastful or vainglorious, does not display itself haughtily. It is not conceited–arrogant and inflated with pride; it is not rude (unmannerly), and does not act unbecomingly. Love (God’s love in us) does not insist on its own rights or its own way, for it is not self-seeking; it is not touchy or fretful or resentful; it takes no account of the evil done to it–pays no attention to a suffered wrong. It does not rejoice at injustice and unrighteousness, but rejoices when right and truth prevail. Love bears up under anything and everything that comes, is ever ready to believe the best about every person, its hopes are fadeless under all circumstances and it endures everything (without weakening). Love never fails–never fades out or becomes obsolete or comes to an end. 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 Continues to part 2
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