Love and selfishness are the two greatest forces in life. 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.
If you can relate to this man’s experience, you know that it is easy to wallow in self-doubt when you make a mistake. But as I told this gentleman, you can defeat self-doubt and regain the confidence to begin again. The key is to stay in faith and know that God has a great destiny in store for you.
Emotions are feelings on the inside of you that are designed to move you either toward or away from the will of God for your life. Positive emotions will move you toward a closer relationship with the Father. But emotions such as depression, anger, anxiety, bitterness and jealousy will hinder what God wants to do in your life.
As a Christian, you have authority over your feelings; you don’t have to be ruled by them. Jesus demonstrated this on a consistent basis. Throughout His ministry, He had plenty of opportunities to allow His emotions to get Him off track and lead Him away from the will of God for His life. He was misunderstood, falsely accused, scorned and had to endure the suffering of the cross. In the Garden of Gethsemane, He was presented with one of His greatest tests-to either abandon His journey to the cross or fulfill what He came to the earth to do. There was so much pressure on Jesus at this time that He even sweated blood out of His pores (Luke 22:44). Now that’s pressure!
Things don’t just happen. Life is a series of decisions that ultimately 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.
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