God is love.
Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. 9 God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might live through him. 1 John 4:7-9
1 Corinthians 14:1 Let love be your greatest aim; .....
God has loved us with an everlasting forgiving, unconditional love and that is Jesus. He says us that love your fellow with the same love that you have recieved. For this he has gives us the Holy Spirit through which God's love is poured into our hearts.
Let us observe how Jesus completed his mission of gaining us to lord. He says in Luke 4:18-19 that " the spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor.He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind,to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.. "
Yes this Spirit on Jesus took him to be the Gospel to those in dark and those blinded in spirit. This spirit filled Jesus to reach to sinners, to love enemies, to give away all he had , to pray for those Who persecuted him, to forgive those who suffered him...to wash the feet...even of his betrayer..all because of God's love to his children, that overflowed through Jesus into our hearts.
After Ascension of Jesus, it is this same spirit that is send upon Apostles and each of us.. The Holy spirit.. filling our hearts with God's love by which Jesus gave us power from above for his mission. A mission that requires our self deniel and walking the same way Jesus walked..without securing ourself being poor in spirit so as to depend completely on God's Providence. This erases the traps of being proud or selfish or jealous by ourself love. For this we have to rely on power of holy spirit to replace our selfish conditional love with God's love.
Jesus says Nicodemus...
Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit. 6 Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit[b] gives birth to spirit. You should not be surprised at my saying, ‘You[c] must be born again.’ 8 The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”[d] John3:5-8
Yes we have to be guided by spirit ...like wind..our missions are not as we deserve but as lord wishes..it is always a mystery...
To a young man who lived a very religious life...Jesus said
Jesus said to him, “If you wish to be perfect, go, sell your possessions, and give the money[c] to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.” 22 When the young man heard this word, he went away grieving, for he had many possessions. Matthew 19:21-22
Yes our self comforts are our possessions...we have to sacrifice it for others good in love ..gods love..
Whatever we do..let us do it in love...a love that sacriticed His only Son to save us..a love that made a son give himself for unworthy sinners..but out of unconditional love...
This God's love is the power that help to cruicfy ourself and say it is no longer I bit Christ lives through me...I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me Galatians 2:20...
This life is life in spirit bearing fruits of Spirit (Galatians 5:22-25)..a life loving our enemies giving without expectations or rewards..forgiving those who pain us..showing other chin too while beaten up..giving all we have to others...walking as extra mile..loving unconditionally...
Always let us realize .... If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast,[a] but do not have love, I gain nothing.
1 Corinthians 13.
Our driving force must always be God's love..because if love is gone .it is just lifeless..
God is love
And this is love not that we loved him...
In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 Beloved, since God loved us so much, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God lives in us, and his love is perfected in us. 1 John 4:10-12
Amen
