Love For Hate!

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We don’t know everything, and our prophecies
are not complete.

But what is perfect will someday appear,
and what isn’t perfect
will then disappear.

When we were children, we thought and reasoned
as children do.
But when we grew up,
we quit our childish ways.

Now all we can see of God is like a cloudy picture
in a mirror.
Later we will see him
face to face.
We don’t know everything,
but then we will,
just as God completely
understands us.

For now there are faith, hope, and love.
But of these three,
the greatest is love.

1 Corinthians 13:9-13

The Bible also says that God is love!  So whenever a man or woman "falls in love" he or she is literally touching the essence of God Himself.  That is also why Satan works so desperately to insert the other "L" word - (LUST) for Love!  When men and women are consumed with lust they completely miss the meaning of love. 

Don't forget that love is not limited to a man and woman.  Love also extends to children, parents, brothers and sisters and even dear friends.  Real love can flow freely in all our human relationships.  Each relationship has boundaries of love that allow us to fully express and receive love appropriately.

The greatest desire of Satan may be to simply destroy our love for others and their love for us, so that we may not see God in it! 

When a man lays down his life for the ones he loves he is graphically illustrating the love of Jesus on the Cross.  When a mother loves her children and nurtures and trains them to walk in the right way she is depicting the work of the Holy Spirit among the children of God.  And when a man becomes a loving father, he is showing the world around him what God is to His children.

But the most amazing love in all the world is when a man, out of obedience to Jesus Christ, loves his enemies!  That is the power that will shake and change the entire world for God.

Lord, show me today how to return love for hate!