Now these things abide forever…

 

Now these things abide forever, faith, hope, love; but the greatest is 

love. 1Corinthians 13:13

Love works no ill towards his neighbor.

Romans 13:10

Paul through the Holy Spirit in these two verses, and all the verses 

before each of those two in their relative books, shows us if whatever 

we do regarding our conduct towards each other, if we have a true, 

sincere love and respect or concern for each other we won’t harm them 

in anyway.

Our motivation, our desire for others, needs to be driven by the Holy 

Spirit.

He and He alone knows what each of us needs, at what point in our life.

We can however stand in faith that what we have a compassion for to 

say help someone with their bills, or to bring them food, it is in fact 

guided by the Holy Spirit.

Personally, it would be sin for me to say to someone, be warm be filled 

and be on your way, if I, in fact, didn’t help them in some way.

True and sincere love is driven by a motivation to elevate someone 

else to at least your level if not above yours.

With truly no jealousy towards them, but with an honest and sincere 

gratitude for their being lifted up by their Father who cares for 

them, even if He used you to bring that about.

Love to me, or say helping someone is coming out of the shadows and 

blessing someone some way, then hopping back into the shadows. So that 

those who are helped can only say it was God in heaven who brought 

this about.

For me it is better to give in absolute secrecy that my Father gets 

the glory, then someone knows it was me and look to me for their 

future needs to be met.

Walk in love little children towards one another that they may glorify 

our Father, knowing that it was Him who causes us to walk this way.

 

Pride is developed in a young man’s life as a defense mechanism…

Pride is developed in a young man’s life as a defense mechanism for
survival.
Which probably in and of it self isn’t a bad thing.
However it is a wall built without a firm foundation. It is built out
of the bricks of delusion and held together with the mortar of
arrogance.
It is a counterfeit of a real wall also built for defense and
survival, set on a firm foundation, with its bricks made from
confidence & boldness, and held together with the mortar made from
humility.
The two walls or defenses in ones life are choices each one of us faces.
One is a confidence in God that propels us to be as bold as a lion,
with a humility knowing that without God we wouldn’t be able. But with
God all things are possible.
That’s why David was so bold when he heard the taunts from the
Philistine, he already had the confidence in God from his former
conflicts that the Most High had delivered him from. His wall of
defense was built on the firm foundation of faith in God. How God had
already delivered him from the lion and the bear. I am willing to bet,
that being a sheep herder there was a dog pack or two thrown in there
just for practice.
My point is that his confidence was established in conflict.
So when he heard the taunts of the giant he wasn’t intimidated like
his fellow Israelis were. Even his older brother thought he was being
arrogant.
The giant on the other hand had his wall of defense built on pride or
else he wouldn’t have taunted David to begin with. A humble soul does
not flaunt their strength like that.
Anyway to have your wall built on sand that is shifting is why I say
its built out of bricks of delusion. You think you are something then
bam the rug is pulled out from under you. You think your doing well
then bam you lose your job. You think everything is fine then your
spouse walks out on you. This is how the evil one treats the ones who
serve pride. It is based on lies. Its always shifting.
If you took the sum total of the satanic bible and reduced it to one
verse, it would be: do what you want to. That is the ultimate level of
pride. Answer to no one.
If you took the sum total of the entire Christian Bible and reduced it
to one verse it would be: love the Lord your God with all of our heart
and your neighbor as yourself. That is the ultimate in humility.
Answering to someone else.
The evil one can never have a sure foundation, because his plans and
purposes are established on lies that are ever changing, remember he
is the father of lies, and there is no truth in him.
So to win in the battles that come at us each and every day, I would
first ask these questions. Does your flesh rise up and make you angry,
jealous, upset or envy?
Do you rehearse in your mind what you are going to say to that person
when you see or speak to them again? Did you ever notice what you
rehearse in your mind never comes out the way you thought it would
anyway.
Maybe that might be a wall of pride.
Think we might want to recognize our thoughts to see if they are good
towards others, or even if you have been wronged its not a reason for
retaliation but for forgiveness.
Be long suffering, kind, and soft to answer and maybe your wall will
be built on the sure foundation of our Lord and you may now be held
together with humility.
Slow to speak, and quick to listen.
When it is all said and done I’ve come to realize there isn’t anything
worth fighting over, nothing.
Now I say that and I don’t want you guys to think I’m a walking,
talking, breathing mother Teresa, however I’m trying.
James says the reason there are wars and fighting among us is because
of lust. Lust is a form of pride.
So brothers and sisters let us rise to the high calling that we have
in Christ, put down our pride, crucify our flesh and walk in the same
manner that God Himself walked like, when He walked among us.

Just because He loves us

Just because He loves us.
Just because He wants to hang out with us.
Just because He likes to see us laugh.
Just because He likes to give us good things.
Just because.
That’s what this walk is all about, just because He loved us first.
There isn’t one thing we could do to earn His care and concern for us.
He just does.
My grandson can’t do anything for me to earn my love, I love the
little buckaroo just because.
If we will learn to look naturally at spiritual principles, we may be
able to get a clearer understanding of the spiritual truth.
God loves us just because.
Not because of anything we do, although our love in return to Him
compels us to do things that He says brings Him joy.
Not out of the need to, just because.
We are not servants in the sense we do what we are told, in fear of
the consequence of a beating. We hear the voice of our Comforter, and
out of adoration to Him we say yes.
Whether or not we do the things that please men is not the point. It
is whether or not out of a pure heart of love that we please the Lord
that is the point.
In loving God with a pure heart that stems from our KNOWING that He
grooves on us just because, should compel us to honor people with a
little less critical spirit. Just because He loved us first.
There is no greater commandment than to love the Lord your God and your
neighbor as yourself.
If we will only truly love we will never sin against each other or
the Most High.