What's 'Love' Gotta Do With It?

Love, as an action word, a holy word, implores us to seek, to find, and to follow God, to be yielded to the Spirit and the word of the Lord. When God, who is love, is the principal of our being, thinking, and doing, we will discover more so His great love for us and how it may influence others through us. Then will our earthly conversation seem heavenly.

Presently, it seems clear that the church in the Americas is divided, with competing sympathies and preferences. Where love is the high standard, we have often settled for less. Imagine us as undivided, even for a day! You can't refute Jesus' fruit! If others see 'all else' in us, they will have countless reasons to say 'No thanks', but if they see Christ in us, the hope of glory, 'No' will be harder to offer [although 'calling' is the great clarifier].

Seek Him. He has entered history to be found. His story has been globalized to be found. He has permitted Himself to be evidenced, as to be 'found'. Seek, and continue seeking Jesus! The earnest seeker in being wooed by God will, in God's timing, will come. {Holy Spirit, work through me to draw my wayward and indifferent family and friends, as well as the stranger put before me}. Consider that "Love never fails." It is the Lord's intention to be found, in the way He can be found - through the Spirit and the word, and while our experiences and applications may be myriad, He is patient to be found, as an act of love.

"The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in a field..." [Matthew 13:44] If we knew the value of His coming, we would strain to uncover 'the treasure'. Our primary strain is to surrender, past which all commitment and all contentment make sense. Our surrender, our initial obedience, needs to be, if real, an act of love reciprocated [gained and given]. {Dearest Spirit, forgive me for not yielding. Strengthen me where weak ... I believe, but help Thou my unbelief.} In seeking and in finding, then we must follow, by which the 'breadcrumbs' we leave for others are the fruit of the Spirit. Love commands the list!

Where 'love never ends' [1Corinthians 13:8], "Goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life.". [Psalm 23:6] What's love gotta do with it? Everything, according to Jesus. Consider Calvary. Consider the empty tomb. Consider our soon-coming King! "So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love." [1Corinthians 13:13] It unlocks the others as the eternal reach of God.

PRAYER: Heavenly and eternal Father, thank You for all grace and every mercy. I pray that in knowing Your faithfulness, my own will rise, day by day, as You open such doors to me. May I be equally glad for the walls that You erect for my good. Bless You, Jesus, for Your precious and indescribable gift of love, that we might have the righteousness of God. May we accept no substitute. Hallelujah! Amen.
By Dea. McNeal Brockington