Reflecting on scriptures this morning
1 Thessalonians 4:
9About brotherly love: You don’t need me to write you because you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.10In fact, you are doing this toward all the brothers in the entire region of Macedonia. But we encourage you, brothers, to do so even more, 11to seek to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you,
We try to love others as the Word commands us often something else comes into play in the hearts and minds of Believers. Self -Preservation.
Christ tells us in
John 15
12 This is My command: Love one another as I have loved you. 13 No one has greater love than this, that someone would lay down his life for his friends.
Jesus showed us clearly how to love through his own willingness to lay down his life for us: His friends.
I ask, where does self -preservation play out in the walk of the Believer?
Does self-preservation have a place in our lives?
Let's put this in a different perspective: I have 7 children; the moment the Lord blessed me with life within me, my body, and my life was no longer my own. My "happiness" and preference no longer was important. What was important was bringing forth a healthy child, and raising them to be Godly, righteous, and God-fearing people.
When we become followers of Jesus Christ transformation is to occur in our hearts. We are to transform ourselves. We are to think more like Him, for Him and less like me. Life for Christ means you are willing to lay down your preferences, wants, and wishes for His.
In loving each another, self-preservation is not a choice. We are bless others through showing the Word of God and being the light in this dark world, even when it does not benefit us.
Parenting children is difficult. You raise them, feed them, change them, and love them for them to walk away from the foundation of Truth you gave them. They become the opposite, do the opposite and live the opposite.
Does it mean to keep from feeling this heartache you never become a mother? No- people do it every day, selflessly.
In our walk with Christ we are to think the same way, selflessly. Feeling heartache or pain brings us closer to Christ for comfort and teaches us to love without conditions.
Don't you agree?
I would love to hear your thoughts on this subject.
Your Servant
Angie
1 Thessalonians 4:
9About brotherly love: You don’t need me to write you because you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.10In fact, you are doing this toward all the brothers in the entire region of Macedonia. But we encourage you, brothers, to do so even more, 11to seek to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you,
We try to love others as the Word commands us often something else comes into play in the hearts and minds of Believers. Self -Preservation.
Christ tells us in
John 15
12 This is My command: Love one another as I have loved you. 13 No one has greater love than this, that someone would lay down his life for his friends.
Jesus showed us clearly how to love through his own willingness to lay down his life for us: His friends.
I ask, where does self -preservation play out in the walk of the Believer?
Does self-preservation have a place in our lives?
Let's put this in a different perspective: I have 7 children; the moment the Lord blessed me with life within me, my body, and my life was no longer my own. My "happiness" and preference no longer was important. What was important was bringing forth a healthy child, and raising them to be Godly, righteous, and God-fearing people.
When we become followers of Jesus Christ transformation is to occur in our hearts. We are to transform ourselves. We are to think more like Him, for Him and less like me. Life for Christ means you are willing to lay down your preferences, wants, and wishes for His.
In loving each another, self-preservation is not a choice. We are bless others through showing the Word of God and being the light in this dark world, even when it does not benefit us.
Parenting children is difficult. You raise them, feed them, change them, and love them for them to walk away from the foundation of Truth you gave them. They become the opposite, do the opposite and live the opposite.
Does it mean to keep from feeling this heartache you never become a mother? No- people do it every day, selflessly.
In our walk with Christ we are to think the same way, selflessly. Feeling heartache or pain brings us closer to Christ for comfort and teaches us to love without conditions.
Don't you agree?
I would love to hear your thoughts on this subject.
Your Servant
Angie
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