"Let's Love"

I wished people would learn to love with the love of God, don't you? The love of God...not our human experiences of 'touchy/feely' but real, genuine love where we would sacrifice on behalf of another and not take things so petty when something isn't said the way we think it should be or someone treats us in a way we don't like.

First, we need to love the truth of God's word. That's the beginning downfall of many. Truth doesn't seem to matter. Throw a few Scriptures out there and wham...we have our doctrine! We talk of good people, and there are, we talk of kind people, and there are, we talk about believers in the Lord, and there are but all of those things cannot substitute for the love of the truth in order to be saved. Goodness, kindness and believing in the Lord are not the ingredients for the truth. Loving the Lord and loving the truth of His word with all our heart is what matters. Sometimes we have believed something wrongly and the word of the Lord approaches us and we recoil at it. Paul warned the Thessalonians that people will ultimately perish "because they did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved." (II Thes. 2:10).

Secondly, we need to love one another by being dedicated to well being of each other. We need to love the church! I hear little talk of that. The church, those who received the love of the truth to be saved, we need to love. Peter said we need to "love the brotherhood." (I Pet. 2:17). There are rebels in the church, irritants (sometimes I am probably one of those) and people with varied lifestyles of what they like and dislike. But because of their love for the truth that brought them to salvation, we cannot let our petty physical likes and dislikes turn us from one another. A lover of the truth is loved by the Lord and the Lord is dedicated to their well being. We should love the same. When one gets off track in their thinking about the truth, love says help them come back and see it. If they don't, there is nothing to do but let them go through their struggles hoping the struggles will bring them back to their senses. Congregations are destroyed by opinions, food outreaches and things like that because people press their personal issues rather than love (Rom. 14).

We need to really learn to love, to be dedicated to one another's spiritual well being. There are too many wandering from the faith, which is leaving the church and it comes down to one simple thing: love! Let's love.