Be Perfected in Love

    Love is the greatest weapon that exists. The purest substance that exists. It is a privilege that we get to partake in His Divine nature, 2 Peter 1:4, and the Divine nature is Love. This tangible substance that is Love, is who this God of ours truly is. As we marinate in this liquid Love we begin to see His reality released through us, and we continually learn to love like He Loves us. As you are reading this remember first that this definition of Love is the way God deals with us, that thought and truth should help us love others the way they deserve to be loved.

1 Corinthians 13
    If I gave away all my personal wealth to the poor and didn’t have love, I only increased in nothingness. If I willing sacrificed my body to be martyred but didn’t have love, I benefited nothing. Love thinks it rubbish to retaliate with anger, that’s what Godless people do and I have more of Him in me than I realize. Love shows divinely-directed patience and is the opposite of being "quick-tempered".
    Love is gently full of service for others. Love never reaches a boiling point, and is never jealous of others successes. Love never boasts of itself, but only of the Lord. Love isn’t arrogant, like an egotistical person with "puffed-up" thoughts. Love does not lack His proper formula and doesn’t act unseemly (indecent, unbecoming). Love doesn’t have to be right by digging to the bottom of matter, or investigate to reach a binding (terminal) resolution.
    Love doesn’t cut close or insist on jabbing someone to stimulate their feelings or emotions. Love doesn’t look for the bad in people or the world, love points out the gold and the good in people, places, and things. Love is not excited with violations of God's standards (justice) which brings divine disapproval; i.e. what is contrary to His righteous judgments (what He approves). But love is thrilled with the Truth, not merely truth as spoken; but truth of idea, reality, sincerity, truth in the moral sphere, divine truth revealed to man, straightforwardness.
    Love will place someone under there roof for free, excited they could help Our Father and grow in relationship with His people. Love never stops trusting, with the sacred significance of being persuaded by the Lord. Love is actively waiting for God's fulfillment about the faith He has birthed through the power of His love. Love will wait behind, and endure the setbacks for the sack of letting His love flow through them into the struggling person, that was and is made in His image and likeness.
    Love never condemns, therefore cannot be condemned. Before we knew Christ we were immature, now that we know Christ we do away with immaturity and put on His fullness and divinely fueled power of love. We tend to see things in riddle form when it comes to His Divine mysteries, but when love comes we come to know the deep things of His heart through direct relationship. Now abide in His confidence, the expectation of His favor, and His unconditional love. But abide in the greatest of all, love.
    The Greek word used for love in this chapter in the original Greek manuscript is 'agape', and it means unconditional love. It is used 116 times in the New Testament.
Romans 12 9-21
    Love is always without hypocrisy and detests, at all times, the maliciousness of this world by gluing oneself to that which originates from God and is empowered by Him in their life, through faith. Let His divinely infused love for your brothers and sisters in Christ be kindly shown and always put the value of another’s life above that of your own. God’s love, when established in us, burns with enthusiasm to unfailingly live for King Jesus. We are to be overcome with His joy and the expectation of His favor, standing ones ground in trial, and consistently exchanging wishes with Him. When His love shines in us we are continually contributing to the business of His holy people and aggressively chasing, like a hunter pursuing a catch (prize), love towards strangers.
    Speak highly of those that mock you and aim to destroy you. Bless those that are trying to earnestly apprehend you, because that’s what Jesus did.  Be joyful with your joy filled brothers, and lament with those expressing uncontainable and audible grief. Love is united and in one accord with those that are also fueled by love. We are not to be condescending in our understanding, we are to not shun those who rely on Jesus but are experiencing inner lowliness; we are never to be gifted by our own accounts. Love never returns evil when evil is rendered unto them, but shows necessary forethought in all occasions to act properly (in God's will). In the power He has granted you, so far as concerns your conscience, live in the condition of God's peace with all men.
    Do not dispense justice on your own account, but you who are unconditionally loved by God, leave opportunity for the Lord to vindicate you. For it is written, "VENGEANCE IS MINE, I WILL REPAY,” says the Lord (Paul was quoting Deut 32:35). "BUT IF YOUR ENEMY IS HUNGRY, FEED HIM, AND IF HE IS THIRSTY, GIVE HIM A DRINK; FOR IN SO DOING YOU WILL HEAP BURNING COALS ON HIS HEAD." Prov. 25:21-22. Be who He says you are so as to not be overtaken by evil, but that so you can overtake evil with good whether it is seen to be so or not.
    Let us grow in LOVE Father. Let us Re-present You in love and in power and in Truth to a world that desperately needs You. Blessings, Love you guys!

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