Love Can

1 Cor.13: ¹³ “Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love”

Receive the love of God. Just receive it. God says that as far as the east is from the west so far has He removed our transgressions from us. According to 1 John, when God forgives us and we do not receive His love or believe that we have been forgiven, the Bible says we are calling Him a liar. Some people feel that they need to pay for their sins, so they enjoy feeling guilty. God’s forgiveness and love for you has nothing to do with how you feel. Yes there is a place for Godly sorrow do not get me wrong, but when that has led to repentance then you need to just accept God’s love and move on.

The reason a lot of people are not free from fear is because they have not accepted the grace and forgiveness of God. A lot of people are keeping mental accounts of the things they have done wrong. And so they do not feel at ease in God’s Presence. The reason you are uncomfortable is you have not received God’s love. God wants you to receive His love because once you do it will expel all your fears. Receive the love of God.

The second way to neutralize fear with love is to offer the love to other people. In life we respond primarily with three emotions. The first is fear; people runaway from some things because of fear. The second is anger; people can stand against things in anger or come against people in anger. The third is love. We can move towards people or towards things in love. Every other thing is a derivative of these three. God wants us to always respond in love not in fear, not in anger but in love.

Some of us really need to allow God’s love to permeate our systems. So that God’s love can consume every form of anger and fear in us and free us to respond in love. Love can face a danger of the greatest magnitude and overcome. A mother will instinctively run into a burning house to save her baby. That action is not based on fear, or anger but she goes into that fire because of love. Love can overcome any obstacle.

Prayer [song]: Jesus loves me, Oh yes He does (3x), for the Bible tells me so. Amen!