We started a new series at The Community Fellowship yesterday. “Love and Life” will take us on a journey through First Corinthians 13, hat is well known as the love chapter.
Next week we will talk about how godly love should characterize our relationships, our marriages and our homes. But in this fist message we talked about the fact of how God’s loves helps us see others and find ways to care for others.
Literally caring for others is a mark of a person who knows God and has found confidence in God’s love for them. Think about how God’s love has touched your life.
Jude 1:20-21 NLT
But you, dear friends, must build each other up in your most holy faith, pray in the power of the Holy Spirit, 21 and await the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, who will bring you eternal life. In this way, you will keep yourselves safe in God’s love.
Love builds people up, yet many people are constantly beaten people up. Are we beating on people or building people? Are we pointing people to what makes us and them better, or are we pushing people lower and further away from God? Touch questions.
We are changed by God so that we can show others the goodness and the plan of God. He will keep us. He promises us mercy and stronger faith as we build other people up.
John 15:13 NLT
There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
Love gives, sacrifices, serves, shares, and lays down its way so that others, often called friends, can find life and His love. May we know that great love and share it.
John 15:24-26 NLT
Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If any of you wants to be my follower, you must give up your own way, take up your cross, and follow me. 25 If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake, you will save it. 26 And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul? Is anything worth more than your soul?
There is the foundation. Love comes from God. It is from Him, about it and for His glory that we love others. That is how we gain our lives, by giving them away.
May His love flow through our lives. May His love give us confidence. May His love change the world around us!
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