“And as we live in God, our love grows more perfect. So we will not be afraid on the day of judgment, but we can face him with confidence because we live like Jesus here in this world.”
I John 4:17, NLT
A good percentage of us learned the Golden Rule in our Sunday school class. “Do unto others that which you want done to you.” This ethical principle is instilled in us as the ultimate way we are to conduct our lives.
Our basic problem is that our marriages are melancholy, families that are dysfunctional, confused churches and our jobs that are ‘brain-numbing.” They each reveal that we have not learned our lesson completely quite yet.
But when the Holy Spirit writes on our hearts; suddenly we break into an inner freedom and ability unimagined by our previous thinking. We become propelled into the joyful life, and we find ourselves suddenly supernatural. This is nothing but a revolution.
Jesus starts to teach us that it really is about LOVE. [Not money, success or status].
Love is the language we will speak in heaven.
It’s the dialect we are to speak in our homes and churches. Love is now how we speak to each other, and how we are to think about each other. [For many, this is silly and makes as much sense as a Monty Python skit.]
The Church is presently learning two clear languages. [We are going to be bilingual, lol].
- First, love is unconditional and underserved. Jesus carries a divine and holy contagion. We only catch it from close fellowship with Him. We become symptomatic and pass it on to others. “As He is, we are in this world.”
- Second, we only advance if we get it into our hearts that God’s love must be shown if we are going to grow up. His love shared is the fulcrum that will move the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
“I give you a new command: Love each other. You must love each other as I have loved you. All people will know that you are my followers if you love each other.”
Only compassion and love really matters. Love is the key that fits every problem that you may have. Living now equates to loving. Living = loving, both must meet in our hearts.
Broken Believers 
Beautiful, Bryan! Thanks for that.
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“For God So Loved the world that He gave His one and only Son”. God showed us love through Jesus who humbled himself and became servant. :) thank you for your post! Great reminder to for of us :)
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Dear Pastor Bryan,
would you Please pray for me.
My energy levels are freezingly low. If I went into that flaming barn, it would stop burning. I’m very solitary, isolated and alone. Every day I sink deeper and deeper into the quicksand of loneliness, sadness, apathy.
Why doesn’t God let me have a friend, companion, or (do I even dare to whisper it) spouse? Have tried hard, have prayed, but doomed to live in isolation, left by myself. I just wish this misery called life (a bad joke?) came to an end.
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