LOVE LIFTS UP


To All those who call themselves by Jesus’ name:

Thought I would share an old favorite song from time to time that reminds me of the answers to most all of life’s difficulties. LOVE LIFTED ME…When nothing else could help, LOVE LIFTED ME.

God is the God who speaks. He has spoken. When we wrong our fellow man, we wrong the Lord. When we speak ill of another we allow our mouths to be used to speak a curse and not blessing. When we continue on in our ‘own ways,’ we disregard the Lord’s commands to LOVE ONE ANOTHER even as Christ has loved us.

How can we obey God’s word if we do not know what He says? Meditate on the Word day and night. There is a blessing waiting to meet you.  Hide God’s word in your heart so that you are ready to endure, one day at a time.

In all that you do, do it with all your heart (might) as unto the Lord. Consider others greater than yourself.

Do not let your love grow cold. Walls are erected, relationships are distant and severed because some of you spend too much time thinking about ‘’your ministry,” “your calling,” “your own well-being,” and not enough time thinking how you could lighten someone else’s load or relieve them of unnecessary burdens. Do unto others as you would have done to you. Consider the poor.

Love forgives. Love sets free. Love allows others to be who and how God has created them to be. Love does not speak ill of any man.  Endeavor to owe no man anything, but a debt of love.  Repay what you have borrowed.  Do not take advantage of anyone.  If you break something, fix it.  If you make a mess, clean it up.  Set an example. Be a servant. Go the extra mile. Withhold no good thing when it is in your power to give it.  Love your neighbor.

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