Boldness and courage is my portion because love is in me.
For love itself carries a dimension of courage as in I Crointhian 13 say love does not lose heart nor courage.
I don't need to be afraid or be dismayed because I know You are with me. Your love give me such courage and strength from within to rise above every limitations and challenges. Love gives me the strength to endure all things.
I know I can rise is because love has not only given me strength but cause me to believe(faith) and hope all things. My faith is the title deed of things hoped for, the proof of things which are not seen. (Hebrews 11:1)
Your word say, I'm to be constantly pursuing this love, earnestly endeavoring to acquire it.
What am I to do to acquire it then? I must yield myself fully to the Holy Spirit so that He would have all the liberty to work in me so that this love can be produced within me.
Note: The verse translation are from Kenneth S. Wuest
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Love
What is "love"? Well, I know for sure it's more than just a feeling.
Paul say,
"And now these three remains:faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."
I Corinthians 13:13
Love is the greatest among all these is because I must first have love in me as it believes in all things (faith) and hopes all things (hope).
What is this "love" which Paul is talking about?
BelowKenneth S. Wuest - The New Testament expanded translation says of v.1
The Greek word which Paul used for love speaks of God's love produced in the heart of the yielded saint by the holy spirit, a love that impels one to deny himself for the sake of the loved ones.
This means this God's "love" is produced by the holy spirit who is dwelling in me.
How? When the I choose to yield myself more and more to the holy spirit and it would allow the holy spirit to produce love. This love would impel me to deny myself for the sake of the loved ones. It's this very love that in Him that impel Christ to deny himself for our sake.
This "love" has dimensions to it as in the following verse:
Ephesians 3: 17-18
"so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God."
This love is not an experience based on knowledge but one that allows me to full experience it in different aspects.
I Corinthians 13:4-8
"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. "
All i know now is that if I want to fully experience these dimensions, foremost I must begin to yield myself to the holy spirit daily so that he could produce Your love in me.
Paul say,
"And now these three remains:faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."
I Corinthians 13:13
Love is the greatest among all these is because I must first have love in me as it believes in all things (faith) and hopes all things (hope).
What is this "love" which Paul is talking about?
BelowKenneth S. Wuest - The New Testament expanded translation says of v.1
The Greek word which Paul used for love speaks of God's love produced in the heart of the yielded saint by the holy spirit, a love that impels one to deny himself for the sake of the loved ones.
This means this God's "love" is produced by the holy spirit who is dwelling in me.
How? When the I choose to yield myself more and more to the holy spirit and it would allow the holy spirit to produce love. This love would impel me to deny myself for the sake of the loved ones. It's this very love that in Him that impel Christ to deny himself for our sake.
This "love" has dimensions to it as in the following verse:
Ephesians 3: 17-18
"so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God."
This love is not an experience based on knowledge but one that allows me to full experience it in different aspects.
I Corinthians 13:4-8
"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. "
All i know now is that if I want to fully experience these dimensions, foremost I must begin to yield myself to the holy spirit daily so that he could produce Your love in me.
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