Love (the right way)

In the Works of Love, Kierkegaard states,

"A man should love God in unconditional obedience and love him in adoration. It would be ungodliness if any man dared love himself in this way, or dared love another person in this way, or dared to let another person love him in this way."

God has called us to give all of ourselves to Him.

Jesus said in Luke 10:27:

"You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself."

Where is your love?

Is it first and foremost for the Heavenly Father, for Jesus Christ, and for the Holy Spirit?

Do you ever consider loving everyone else as yourself?

Those who dislike you, maybe even hate you?

God has equipped you and called you to love Him above all else.

He wants you to show love to all people!

Ephesians 4:16-17:

"Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love."

There should not be this grand debate about whether or not Christianity is good for man or not. The love of myself and other Christians should be so evident that no one can dare say that Christians fail in the area of love. I know we are broken and fallen people, but Christ is renewing our minds and hearts (so long as we let Him). Please stop letting the devil divide and conquer not only those in the church with others in the church, but also those in the church with those outside of the church. God will equip you to love in every circumstance. I know that it is impossible to have this love on our own, but the depths of God's love is infinite.

Ephesians 4:25-32:

"Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another. Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and give no opportunity to the devil. Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need. Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you."

You and I are called to love!

Will we do that which Christ has called us to?

Or will we sit here and continue to be devoid of God's love in our lives?