Love makes it impossible to harm another, so love fulfills all that the law requires. Romans 13:10 TPT
I am sure all of us have encountered the word 'Love' several times in our lives. Due to the complexity of the world after the fall of man in the garden of Eden, there are now various versions of love. At the time man was created and placed in the garden, there was no deceit or deception. But with sin now comes the need to audit our lives and check whether what we have or hold on to is the genuine article or not.
Today's extract says it is impossible for true love to seek to harm another person. If what is in you is the real deal, then it is true. Love is not an idea, concept or theory; love is a person. God is presented in the bible as being love, not just giving or having love. It is because He is love that showing love to us is easy for Him. Because his nature is love, it is impossible for God to be seen aa evil. He may allow evil to happen, in line with the reality sin has created, but when you call God a good God, it is because He is inherently and foundationally and fundamentally good.
If I find myself always thinking of how to beat someone else at something, or I am simply better gifted than someone else, or my giftings are more suitable than another's, or I gossip and seek to destroy another person simply because I feel threatened, I had better check myself, lest I deceive myself into thinking I am on the right path.
And in conclusion, love becomes the whole essence and message of the law. The law was made to deal with sin and to punish deviant behaviour, but imagine if we all had a heart that sought the good of everyone else. That would be a great world; one where the law of love becomes a lifestyle of love. It becomes a world where men do not need to be compelled to love, but whose hearts are already sold out to the One called love. I do not wait to be commanded to love; I already have love living inside of me, working in me and living out of me. That is what the world lacks and needs, and it is what the world will respond to. What do you have? His time of favour is here.
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