TAKING THE STOCK OF YOUR LIFE ON GOD’S WORD BY LOVE: AND LOVING TO DO GOD’S WORD BY LOVE AND NOT AS A BURDEN – THAT MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE IN LIFE AND GRACE!
“By this we know that we LOVE the children of God, when we LOVE God and keep His commandments. 3 For this is the LOVE of God, that we KEEP His COMMANDMENTS. And His commandments are not BURDENSOME (GRIEVOUS, IRKSOME, TASKMASTER, TROUBLESOME, HARD, DIFFICULT)” 1 John 5:2-3/Emphasis Mine.
Do you always take stock on your obedience to God’s WORD? and do you DO God’s WORD in LOVE? And if Yea – that’s GREAT and COMMENDABLE. However, the essence of the questions or questioning it’s summed up in this, that by LOVING to DO and be DOING God’s WORD of commands in LOVE is a hallmark of doing the WORD effectually, efficiently, effortlessly, selflessly and without sweat and guilt; more so, considering always in principle, that God’s WORD is not GRIEVOUS, IRKSOME, BURDENSOME, TASKMASTER, TROUBLESOME, HARD and DIFFICULT to practice when taken in a spirited and hearted act of LOVE approach. I can boldly say to you today, that, DOING God’s WORD by LOVE, makes all the difference in LIFE and GODLY LIVING.
It must be noted that God is not a taskmaster, hence His COMMANDS are not an ADVICE, they are genuine, faithful, true, sure, real and empowering. He will always COMMEND what He COMMAND when it’s obediently taken and done in LOVE. And God’s intent it’s always for our good and to help and to give leverage to us in our godly living and doing life in all circumstances. And when LOVING by God’s WORD, life is liveable, loveable, reachable and enjoyable in Christ Jesus stead. Amen.
“For I know the PLANS and THOUGHTS that I have for you,’ says the Lord, ‘PLANS for PEACE and WELL-BEING and NOT FOR DISASTER, to give you a FUTURE and a HOPE. 12 Then you will CALL on Me and you will come and PRAY to Me, and I will HEAR [your voice] and I will LISTEN to you” Jeremiah 29:11-12 Amplified.
A WILLING and OBEDIENT hearts of LOVE towards God’s WORD, it’s all it takes to eat the good out of the Kingdom. This is all possible:
** When LOVE and LOVING is not taken or done with a DUTY hearts as if God is a TASKMASTER.
** When you KNOW that God have not TASKED MASTERING you in LOVE to tempt you with an obligation He knows it’s impossible for you and any to do.
** When you understand that God is not out to see you FAIL in LOVE, in order that He might punish you to suit Himself well and good.
Therefore, by taking STOCK on God’s WORD in LOVE, and LOVING to DO God’s WORD by LOVE – should not be seen as a BURDEN – but as God’s avenue in grace for your good, knowing that it’s in the doing in love that – MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE – for an EFFECTUAL and EFFICIENT walk with God in doing LIFE and living GODLY in Christ Jesus stead. Amen.
If God demands of your finance, time, talent/skill, and whatever to be given of you for His Kingdom cause and to keep the enemy at bay – it’s WORTH doing it in the LOVE for God and His work on earth rather than doing it as an obligation and duty in fear. Even in matters of NECESSITY as Apostle Paul would say in regards to the call of God upon His life – still do it in love and not in fear of bondage. For perfect love cast out fear PHOBIAS. Let God’s love rules and reigns supreme in your world as is in His world.
“Beloved, let us [unselfishly] LOVE and seek the best for one another, for LOVE is from God; and everyone who LOVES [others] is BORN of God and KNOWS God [through personal experience]. 8 The one who DOES NOT LOVE has not become ACQUAINTED with God [does not and never did know Him], for God is LOVE. [He is the ORIGINATOR of love, and it is an enduring attribute of His nature.] . . . 17 In this [union and fellowship with Him], LOVE is completed and perfected with us, so that we may have CONFIDENCE in the day of judgment [with assurance and boldness to face Him]; because as He is, so ARE WE in this world. 18 There is NO FEAR IN LOVE [dread does not exist]. But PERFECT (complete, full-grown) LOVE DRIVES OUT FEAR, because FEAR involves [the expectation of divine] punishment, so the one who is afraid [of God’s judgment] is not perfected in love [has not grown into a sufficient understanding of God’s love]” 1 John 4:7-8, 17-18 Amplified.
“For though I PREACH the gospel, I have NOTHING to glory of: for NECESSITY is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I PREACH not the gospel! 17 For if I DO this thing WILLINGLY, I have a REWARD: but if AGAINST my will, a DISPENSATION of the GOSPEL is committed unto me” 1 Corinthians 9:16-17.
I PRAY that as you take STOCK in doing life and living godly, may you do it by God’s WORD by LOVE; and may you maintain consistency in the realm and sphere by LOVE, and be doing God’s WORD by LOVE – and not as a BURDEN – while making all the difference.
SELAH – PAUSE AND THINK.
SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT:
“By this we know that we LOVE the children of God, when we LOVE God and keep His commandments. 3 For this is the LOVE of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not BURDENSOME” 1 John 5:2-3.
“If ye be WILLING and OBEDIENT, ye shall eat the good of the land” Isaiah 1:19.
“There hath no TEMPTATION taken you but such as is common to man: but God is FAITHFUL, who will not SUFFER (ALLOW) you to be TEMPTED above that ye are able; but will with the TEMPTATION also MAKE A WAY TO ESCAPE, that ye may be ABLE to bear it” 1 Corinthians 10:13 (Emphasis Mine).
“Let no man SAY when he is TEMPTED, I am TEMPTED of God: for God CANNOT be TEMPTED with evil, neither TEMPTETH he any man: 14 but every man is TEMPTED, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed” James 1:13-14.
“Some indeed PREACH Christ even of ENVY and STRIFE; and some also of GOOD WILL: 16 the one PREACH Christ of CONTENTION, not SINCERELY, supposing to add AFFLICTION to my bonds: 17 but the other of LOVE, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel. 18 What then? NOTWITHSTANDING, every way, whether in PRETENCE, or in TRUTH, Christ is PREACHED; and I therein do REJOICE, yea, and will REJOICE” Philippians 1:15-18.
“Though I SPEAK WITH THE TONGUES of MEN and of ANGELS, but HAVE NOT LOVE, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2 And though I have the GIFT OF PROPHECY, and UNDERSTAND ALL MYSTERIES and ALL KNOWLEDGE, and though I have ALL FAITH, so that I could remove mountains, but HAVE NOT LOVE, I am nothing. 3 And though I BESTOW ALL MY GOODS TO FEED THE POOR, and though I give my body to be burned, BUT HAVE NOT LOVE, IT PROFITS ME NOTHING . . .” 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 NKJV.
“LOVE has been PERFECTED among us in this: that we may have BOLDNESS in the day of judgment; BECAUSE AS HE IS, SO ARE WE IN THIS WORLD. 18 There is NO FEAR IN LOVE; but PERFECT LOVE CASTS OUT FEAR, because FEAR involves TORMENT. But he who FEARS has not been MADE PERFECT IN LOVE” 1 John 4:17-18.
“And hope maketh not ashamed; because THE LOVE of God is SHED abroad in our HEARTS by the Holy Ghost which is GIVEN unto us . . .But God COMMENDETH HIS LOVE toward us, in that, while we were YET SINNERS, Christ DIED for us” Romans 5:5, 8.
REV. CHUKIE MORSI