We are called to be filled with the love of God for God is love. HIS desire is that we bear lasting fruit, not temporary fruit. For when we bear lasting fruit HE is glorified. Staying in obedience to the Word and keeping the commandments of God is abiding in HIS Love. Lasting fruit that Glorifies God is one that is bore through the Spirit of God as our faith and obedience endures to the end. But temporary fruit is fruit of the flesh and it will fade away. Examine your own fruit.
1 Tim 1:5 The purpose of my instruction is that all believers would be filled with love that comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and genuine faith.
In order to be filled with God's love, we must have a pure heart, clear conscience, and genuine faith. Many Christians think we are loving God and we are loving each other but as humans have proved, our love abandons, our love fails, and our love falls short. Man's love through his own strength can only bear temporary fruit. Many Christians are bearing temporary fruit. God's Love does not fail and is constant and this is the standard in which we must walk in.
What is Love? 1 Cor 13:4-8 "Love endures long and is patient and kind; love never is envious nor boils over with jealousy, 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 [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 of 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]."
Is this the kind of Love you possess? This is the Love we are called to possess and walk in. If we are to possess God's heart and love, we must pray for HIS Heart and Love. Have you prayed fasting and crying out HIM? We must pray denying ourselves to possess a pure heart, repenting and forgiving to possess a clear conscience and continuing to endure all trials, tests, and tribulation to have our faith proved rather than running from all trouble. Scripture says to be patient in trouble and keep praying. Scripture never said to run or quit. We are the children of God. We must endure to the end to be saved.
May you all possess His Heart and Love for only the pure in heart shall see God.
Matthew 5:8 God blesses those whose hearts are pure, for they will see God.
Pastor Steve Yong Kim
Fire of God Church
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