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Throughout our message series "4 Weeks To Live", God has really changed my perspective in the areas of 'what really matters' and 'LOVE'.
I have come to the conclusion that people will walk in either Love or Selfishness. A person chooses to walk in one or the other every day. What many people call love really isn't love at all. Real love - which is agape love, or the God kind of love - is unconditional, limitless, selfless and is not based on emotions. It is extremely tolerant. Unfortunately, many operate in selfishness. They live in human, emotional love, which has limits, is conditional, requires pre-qualification and has to be loved before it can love. Selfishness is the root of all sin, which is based in fear. As a result, our society is experiencing a tremendous amount of lawlessness, perversion and sin.
Families are being destroyed because people are engaging in human emotional love rather than taking the time to learn about and develop in agape love. Selfishness in the home or church can creep up in so many subtle ways. Here is a newsflash - it's not all about you! :) Everything in life should not focus around you and your needs, but rather the needs of others. For Christ didn't come to be served but too serve! It is important to find balance and compromise within relationships in order to maintain peace. You can kick selfishness out of your life. How? Yield to Love.
Jesus gave two commandments that are the foundational principles for every commandment in the Bible: "...love the Lord thy God with all of thy heart, and with all thy soul and with all thy mind... love thy neighbor as thyself" (Matthew 22:37, 39). When you keep the law of love, you fulfill all of the laws written in the Bible. Have you made the decision to walk in love so that you will fulfill Jesus' commandment and allow God's spiritual principles to work in your life? Or have you chosen to operate in your own way of doing things?
Things don't just happen. Life is a series of decisions and choices that shape and determine your future. One very important decision every person should make is to be an expression of God's love on the earth.
There are two laws that govern life: the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus, which is love; and the law of sin and death, which is selfishness (Romans 8:2). Like curtains on a curtain rod, your deliverance, answered prayers, healing and faith all hang on the rod of love.
If you are not walking in God's agape love, then you are limiting what God can do in your life. I encourage you to take the love test by reading 1 Corinthians 13:4-7. After reading this portion of Scripture, you will know to what extent you have--or have not--yielded your life to love.
Look through the eyes of eternity and live life loving as Christ loves us!
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perry meade
