Saturday, June 23, 2012

The Greatest of These Is Love!!!


You know sometimes I see a person being cruel or mean to another person and I want to tell them off!!!  I can hear that old saying as I write this!!! 


Two wrongs do NOT make a right!!! 


God will allow me to intervene, but He has told me that even the cruelest person should be treated with LOVE!!!  We cannot be mean to a person because they, in our opinion,
“deserve to be treated that way!!!” 



This is what God told me!!! 


NO matter what a person says or does, we must treat that person with LOVE!!! 



It doesn’t matter what the situation or the circumstance is, we must treat everyone with LOVE!!!


Luke 6:35-36 (NKJV)


35 
But love your enemies, do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High. For He is kind to the unthankful and evil.

36 Therefore be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful.


Luke 6:37-38 (CEV)

37 
Jesus said:
Don’t judge others, and God won’t judge you. Don’t be hard on others, and God won’t be hard on you. Forgive others, and God will forgive you.

38 If you give to others, you will be given a full amount in return. It will be packed down, shaken together, and spilling over into your lap. The way you treat others is the way you will be treated.



As children of the King, we are to treat ALL folks with LOVE at ALL times-no matter what!!!  That is what God told me!!! 



1 Corinthians 13 (NIV)


13 
If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.

If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

It does not dishonor others, 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. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.

For we know in part and we prophesy in part,

10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears.

11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.

12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

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