Love Fervently

Focus: 1 Peter 1:22 - KJV

22. Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:

Romans 12:9-21

Love is a word on many lips that do not understand the meaning thereof. Love first of all is God’s person. And He commands that we should be like Him: Love. To this end, like God who releases the air to every creature whether good or evil, allows the rain, gives long room to the erring to come back to his senses, and actually shows mercy to all and sundry since everyone that exists so do by His mercy. Whenever we fail in love, we disappoint our God; and the reason we so fail is that the enemy, who is on a constant prowl to devour, deceives many into assuming that it is safe to self-defend, to avenge or to “kill your enemy before he kills you”. The enemy knows that those who practice these things are against the will and direct command of God and therefore, cannot please Him.

When Jesus was about to round off His mission on earth, like a good leader and “father” even though He said only the one in Heaven is the father, He declared that all that the father had given to Him He had kept to the end, except the son of perdition, so that scriptures may be fulfilled. That is the love of a father. Even in the days of Moses, though he caused Israel to roam the wilderness and called them unprintable names, but God ensured that their sandals did not wear neither did their clothes, for a period of forty years. They were said to be recalcitrant towards their God. Yet, the same fed them daily for the span of forty years. That is love! Christ was once cornered and was to be mobbed by the people. In the minds of a “child”, Christ should have called down fire to deal with the assailants. But He simply walked through their midst without any being hurt. That is love!

The Lord is saying to every believer that we have His examples of how to love and that we ought to emulate the same. No good father ostracizes his children particularly who have been of great contribution towards his success. It cannot be right in any way that a father turns his own children into orphans, those who called him daddy, and just throw them into the cold. We need to be practical about our Christianity and how indeed we treat the injunctions of Christ. There is nothing a brother or sister in Christ or anyone at all, can do that can warrant being ostracized. Such action is inimical to love, not to talk of fervent love, with pure heart. Let us be clinical in obeying Christ and not our flesh. Love is watching and is not pleased with these actions.

Please receive this:

From this very day, the Lord shall replace your heart of stone with that of flesh so that you may be able to love genuinely, in Jesus’ name. Every attempt of the enemy to keep you in thoughts about vengeance and maltreatment of others are thwarted for your sake today, in Jesus’ name. The hands of God, who is Love, rest upon you right now to make you truly loving, in Jesus’ name. No devil will make you to offend Love by refusing to love again, in Jesus’ name.

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